RIC provides customized information products for specific information needs.
Publications
| Spotlights |
Small Farm Funding Sources
USDA. NAL. Rural Information Center.
Starting your own farm business offers rewards that range from being your own boss and working at something you enjoy, to earning income for yourself. A successful farm operation requires careful planning and financial assistance options. This guide provides both. PDF Version
Alternatives to Waste Disposal
USDA. NAL. Rural Information Center.
This guide serves as a starting point for small communities and concerned individuals to examine the issues and begin to plan feasible programs. It provides web links to full-text information resources.
Publications
- Alternatives to Waste Disposal
- Arts and Humanities Programs in Rural America
- Capital Assistance Funding: A Rural Health Resource Guide
- Case Studies: Forest-Based Partnership Initiatives
- Downtown Revitalization
- Federal Funding Sources for Rural Areas Database
- Federal Rural Development Policy in the Twentieth Century
- Financial Management for Local Governments
- Food Stamps: 1932-1977: From Provisional and Pilot Programs to permanent Policy (PDF | 40 K)
- Guide to Funding Resources
- Historic Preservation Resources
- Innovative Approaches in Rural Education (PDF | 139 KB)
- Managed Care and Rural America: An Annotated Bibliography (PDF | 272 KB)
- Promoting Tourism in Rural America
- Public Transportation on the Move in Rural America (PDF | 598 KB)
- Retirement Communities in Rural America
- Rural Fire Department Resources for Local Officials
- Rural Health Funding Sources: National Foundations,
- Rural Health Services Funding: a Resource Guide (PDF | 330 KB)
- Rural Homeland Security Resources for Local Officials
- Rural Housing Resources
- The Rural Information Center Assists Local Communities (PDF | 1,722 KB)
- Rural Tourism: An Annotated Bibliography (PDF | 257 KB)
- Rural Youth Employment
- Small Farm Funding Sources
- Starting a Child Care Center
- Starting a Small Business
- Stories Across America: Opportunities for Rural Tourism
- Understanding Rural America (PDF | 1,344 KB)
- Volunteer and Nonprofit Organization Resources
- What Is Rural?
Quick Bibliographies
- Agricultural and Farmer Cooperatives (PDF |65 KB)
- Crime in Rural America (PDF |84 KB)
- Hazardous and Toxic Waste Management (PDF | 110 KB)
- Health Care in Rural America (PDF | 277 KB)
- Information Access in Rural America (PDF | 116 KB)
- Leadership Development (PDF | 140 KB)
- Native American Health Care (PDF| 148 KB)
- Native American Natural Resource Management (PDF | 81 KB)
- Population Migration in Rural America (PDF | 126 KB)
- Poverty in Rural America (PDF | 192 KB)
- Rural America's Elderly (PDF | 188 KB)
- Rural Education (PDF | 172K)
- Rural Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (PDF | 222 KB)
- Rural Industrialization (PDF | 230K)
- Rural Leadership (PDF | 113 KB)
- Tourism Development (PDF | 191 KB)
- Transportation Services in Rural Areas (PDF | 142 KB)
