Let me tell you about the first time Heidi asked us to host a Rural Progress Summit.

It was 2021, COVID was still making it difficult to gather together, and the One Country team was trying to figure out how we can bring rural priorities to Capitol Hill. We were asking, how can we better advocate for the people and communities who have been left behind by the hustle and bustle of Washington?

It was a tough question, and the problem we kept running into is that rural experts, representatives, advocates, and most importantly, regular people had nowhere to come together and discuss the issues that matter most to them. Rural champions didn't have a space to build a strong movement together.

That's when Heidi said it:

"Let's give them a space ourselves, let's host a summit!"

That was the moment we started to fight even harder for rural priorities because the Rural Progress Summit gave each of us the opportunity to come together and join a rock-solid movement.

Last week, we completed our third Rural Progress Summit, and it was better than ever before. If you weren't able to attend, click below to see the recordings of the discussions from this year.

check it out!

Because of this summit, we are able to organize better policy campaigns in Congress, foster relationships across rural states, and to build a plan for how we will fight for rural communities in the 2024 elections and beyond. The summit may have just finished, but we are ready to take this momentum and fight even harder for rural America.

One Country Project is building a movement to fight for progress through collaboration and conversation at events like the Rural Progress Summit. Can you support more of this kind of grassroots organizing in rural America by chipping in $3 today?

We're in this together,

Tom

Tom Bryant
Deputy Director, One Country Project