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To better enable school districts to provide educational services to their students, this map provides the latest available FCC internet speed data. Map colors indicate 'served' (green) and 'unserved' (red).

This is the fourth article in a series on rural leadership. This article focuses on turning shared leadership into action that creates meaningful, visible change people can build on together.

This is the third article in a four-part series on rural leadership. The first two articles explored how leadership grows through relationships, everyday actions, and confidence.

This article explores practical, evidence-based strategies to foster extrinsic motivation and reduce attrition across agricultural jobs.

This article explores two interconnected strategies that help teams thrive: creating positive work environments and addressing the real, sector-specific challenges workers face.

This article explains how citizen advocacy groups can work with community officials and develop working relationships with local leaders to put "green issues" on the agendas of local governments.

This article offers tips and advice on how citizens and communities can find revenues and develop strategies to create a community tree program.

This article explains how to create successful volunteer projects that can help gain the citizen support needed to establish a comprehensive community forestry program.

The PA Municipalities Planning Code provides the foundation upon which local municipalities prepare and administer comprehensive plans and land use regulations. Such plans and regulations must include agricultural considerations.

This article provides information about public relations, rules for working with the media, and communications tools, as well as sample letters to the editor, op-ed pieces and news releases.

This article highlights how agritourism farms are responding to crop loss and navigating recovery.

AI search is reducing nonprofit click-through rates. This work outlines issues and strategies to help organizations appear more often in AI responses.

This article discusses reasons people join local community social media groups and provides best practices for those who manage and moderate those groups.

Exploring food deserts, swamps, data gaps, and innovative mapping solutions to strengthen food access across Pennsylvania's urban and rural communities.

For the strategic plan to fulfill its full potential, it needs to be continually monitored for items such as relevancy and progress on recommended actions.

This map represents FCC data in terms of broadband service for the purpose of enabling bidders to better estimate their project costs in providing service to locations not having broadband services as defined by the FCC.

Part 1 of a 4-part Rural Leadership Series for Emerging Community Leaders

Lebanon County is the newest Pennsylvania community to be awarded funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of the Well-Connected Communities (WCC) project.

Part 2 of a 4-part Rural Leadership Series for Emerging Community Leaders

This article is part of a series of discussions on community, community development, civic engagement, leadership, and local development in Pennsylvania.

This paper is part of a series that will include specialized papers on civic engagement, community action, and other topics important to the development of community throughout Pennsylvania.

The Extension On the Road crew traveled to Philadelphia to meet farmers and their community partners and get a look at how farming is used to build community, as educational spaces, and to produce food in urban areas.

Ayer viajamos a Philadelphia para visitar fincas urbanas.

This article is part of a community development discussion series. This series includes specialized papers on civic engagement, community action, and other related topics to community development.