2025 IRSG Rural Equity Summit Day 1

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What to Expect

📅 Day 1: Tuesday, March 4
1:00 - 3:00 PM ET

• Welcome, Grounding, Network Weaving with Small Group Connections

• Concurrent Program Blocks

  • Rural Prisons & Criminal Legal Reform:  The false premise of prisons as economic drivers in rural areas – How rural communities are fighting back against the false economic promises of federal prisons and advancing people-centered rural economic visions.

  • Building Rural Power to Activate Local Governance – Moving beyond election boom-and-bust funding, how do we fund local rural power to push back against authoritarian control, support progressive rural electeds, and advance hyperlocal campaigns?

  • Youth & Intergenerational Organizing – Investing in youth movements to build multigenerational power, create a sustainable rural organizing ecosystem,  and counteract Project 2025’s rural agenda.

• New York Rural Organizing: An Overlooked Critical Line of Defense  - We’ll explore why overlooking a “blue state” like New York in a responsive national grantmaking strategy is a grave miscalculation. We’ll learn about what’s possible when rural community capacity is resourced - and what’s at risk when it’s not, and how this all adds up to statewide change.