About Us

Since 1985, the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group (CSG) has been committed to equitable rural prosperity. We work towards a future where rural communities and Native nations are places where each and every person belongs, lives with dignity, and thrives. CSG serves as a connecting hub, designing and facilitating action-inducing peer learning among national organizations, leaders, and policymakers to collaborate and learn from these rural practitioners. CSG advances an asset-based and systems-building approach to community and economic development.