Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange 2017

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A nonprofit fundraiser supporting

Appalshop, Inc
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The goal of this campaign is to help support RUX's 2017 cohort from across the state of Kentucky.

$172

raised by 9 people

$15,000 goal

our Mission

Together, we are growing relationships across divides to build a more collaborative and connected Commonwealth. 

WHAT IS RUX?

The Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX) is a statewide program that brings rural and urban people together in unique community settings over three, weekend-long intensives each summer.  Each Community Intensive focuses on People, Places, and Partnership to to strengthen relationships and spark regional innovation. We assemble a diverse cohort from the arts, agriculture, community health, and small business, then work together to explore commonalities, deepen connections to people and places, and collaborate towards place-based innovation.

The idea for the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange came from a shared recognition of the historic divide across Kentucky’s physical and cultural landscapes. We believe region is a relational term, so when we talk about Kentucky as a region, we're talking about a shared cultural and historical experience based on relationship- to one another and to place. We believe that people are more likely to work together when they have meaningful experiences in one another’s communities and are invested in relationships with one another. So, over three weekends each summer, RUX members get to know one another as friends and collaborators. We eat at community potlucks and fish fries, share our favorite swimming holes, host bands in residence, and hike the mountains and deltas of the Commonwealth. Then, we focus on our common visions and realities.

Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange is a strategy to enact the full power of collaboration between arts, agriculture, community health, and small business to build collective capacity and support homegrown leadership across regions of Kentucky. RUX is a partnership between Art of the Rural and Appalshop.

This fundraiser supports

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Appalshop, Inc

Organized By Sarah Schmitt

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