The Ballmer Group, Blue Meridian Partners, and others are helping Partners for Rural Impact take a model from Harlem and adapt it for Appalachian Kentucky and beyond.
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Now two funders — the Ballmer Group and Blue Meridian Partners — along with regional grantmakers and individual donors, are supporting PRI to adapt the model it honed in Appalachia for rural places in Texas, Missouri, and beyond. Rural areas tend to have fewer and less accessible institutional resources than suburban or urban places, says Jeff Edmondson, executive director of community impact at the Ballmer Group. For that reason, he says, the role of an organization that helps keep a diverse group of community leaders on track to meet common goals is particularly important “to ensure that they’re using very limited resources as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Over the next four and a half years, PRI plans to identify two more regions or towns to launch locally led partnerships. The idea is that these communities, along with those in Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas, will serve as “proof of concept” for what can work to improve education outcomes for rural families, says Gentry.
Grantmakers’ focus on how many people they can serve always puts rural groups at a disadvantage, Gentry says. But she’s successfully made the case that while total population numbers may be lower, donors can have a deeper impact outside of urban areas. “The issues we deal with in rural communities are very similar to what you see in urban communities — transportation, access to health care, access to child care, food deserts, lack of broadband,” says Wynn Rosser, the foundation’s president. “The issues just express themselves differently when the context is rural and remote.”
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