Western LGUs and WRDC Partners Western LGUs • America Samoa Community College • Blackfeet Community College • Chief Dull Knife College • College of Micronesia - Kolonia • Colorado State University • Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station • Crownpoint Institute of Technology • Diné College • Fort Belknap College • Fort Peck Community College • Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station • Institute of American Indian Arts • Little Big Horn College • Montana State University • New Mexico State University • Northern Marianas College • Northwest Indian College • Oregon State University • Salish Kootenai College • Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute • Stone Child College • University of Alaska Fairbanks • University of Arizona • University of California • University of Guam • University of Hawaii • University of Idaho • University of Nevada Reno • University of Wyoming • University of Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station • Utah State University • Utah Agricultural Experiment Station • Washington State University WRDC Partners • CSREES-USDA • Center for Rural Affairs • Food Innovation Center (Oregon) • Morgan Valley Lamb • North Central Regional Center for Rural Development • Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development • Northwest Area Foundation • Rural Community Assistance Corporation • Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) • Southern Rural Development Center • Southwest Marketing Network • Utah State University College of HASS • Utah State University College of NR • Utah State University Cooperative Extension

2005 Western Rural Poverty Research Conference

The WRDC and the RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center at Oregon State University co-sponsored a one and a half day poverty conference. 

Agenda topics included:

1. Framing poverty in the west
2. Poverty and tribal communities
3. Networks and policy
4. Natural resource dependent communities and poverty
5. Latinos and poverty

Brochure

Speaker Bios
Seventeen nationally prominent speakers on rural poverty from across the U.S. addressed attendees at the Eccles Conference Center on the campus of Utah State and our ‘virtual’ attendees who joined us, at no cost, via the internet from ten states. 

Video Presentations
Researchers presented papers and speakers and attendees alike participated in important discussions that will help develop community and state/national policies on reducing rural poverty. These online videos are made possible by USU's Center for Open and Sustainable Learning.

PowerPoint Presentations
"Building Communities from the Inside Out: Drawing Upon Community Assets to Overcome Poverty" - by Dr. John Allen

"Poverty in the Rural West at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Similar to or Different from the Rest of the Nation?" - by Annabel Kirschner

"Theories of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs in the Community Development" - by Ted K. Bradshaw

"The Everyday Economy on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation: Empowering Community Responses to Rural Poverty" - by Kathleen Pickering

"CDFI 101: CCDFIs Role in Poverty Alleviation" - by Elsie Meeks

"This land belongs to us, for the Great Spirit gave it to us when He put us here." - by Al Nygaard

"Wrong Side of the Tracks or Not: Examining Inequality and Rural Mobile Home Park Residence" - by Kate MacTavish

"Northwest Area Foundation Request for Proposals" - by Priscilla Salant

"A Longitudinal Look at Family Well-Being in Rural, Low-Income Latino Families in Three States" - by Leslie Richards

"Latino Poverty: Barriers for Latinos in Western Rural Communities" - by Laura C. Orta

"Natural Resource Dependence and Rural Poverty: Some Reflections and a Research Agenda" - by Bruce Weber

"Life in a Natural Resource Dependent Community" - by K.B. Rasmussen

"Transforming Rural Communities: An Asset-based Research Agenda from the 'Lived Experiences' of Rural Communities of Poverty" - by James A. Richardson