Explore these established Rural organizations.

Backroads PAC From their website:

"Living in rural America requires some grit, some tenacity, and an understanding in the value of community. Running for public office in rural America takes a tremendous amount of all three. So, our mission is simple: build a community to ensure rural Democrats never travel the path to victory alone."

"Democrats in rural areas have been left behind for decades--lacking in infrastructure, organization, and resources. Our top priority is to help fill that gap by partnering, endorsing and helping to fund Democratic candidates running for Federal office."

Learn more here: BackroadsPAC.com

Federal Office of Rural Health Policy From their website:

"The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) administers grant programs designed to build health care capacity at both the local and state levels. We also coordinate activities related to rural health care within the Department of Health and Human Services and have the department-wide responsibility for analyzing the possible effects of policy on residents of rural communities."

Learn more here: hrsa.gov/rural-health

National Rural Health Association From their website:

"All people, regardless of age or disability, should be able to live independently and participate fully in their communities. Every person should have the right to make choices and to control the decisions in and about their lives. This right to self-determination includes decisions about their homes and work, as well as all the other daily choices most adults make without a second thought."

Learn more here: ACL.gov

No Dem Left Behind From their website:

"No Dem Left Behind is introducing a model of orchestrating local initiatives to boost turnout, converting persuadable voters, registering new voters and leading with issues to defeat political polarization and increase margins across rural America.

We are partnering with local organizations to empower community leaders on their own turf. Facilitating critical, down-ballot victories across the country that will improve top-ticket results in a coordinated, national strategy."

Learn more here: NoDemLeftBehind.com

People's Action (Rural and Small-Town Organizing) From their website:

"We see the potential that exists in our communities, and it's time for candidates for every level of office to see it too. But a quick campaign stop or scenic rural photo-op is not enough to meet the moment rural communities and small towns face – and neither is promising a return to the pre-pandemic status quo. Rural communities need candidates who will work with us on a new approach, based on our vision for what our communities can be: anchored by thriving small towns with diversified economies, strong safety nets that meet people's needs, a family farm food system, a plan to rapidly transition to a renewable energy future and a jobs guarantee that invests in us to rebuild our communities and take care of each other."

Learn more here: PeoplesAction.org/rural

Rural Coalition From their website:

"Founded in 1978, Rural Coalition is an alliance of farmers, farm workers, indigenous, migrant, and working people from the United States, Mexico, Canada, and beyond, working together toward a new society that values unity, hope, people, and the land."

Learn more here: RuralCo.org

Rural Community Assistance Corporation From their website:

"Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates in 13 western states and Pacific islands. We serve Indigenous and rural communities through training, technical and financial assistance and advocacy."

"We are a diverse group of more than 180 passionate professionals who serve Indigenous and rural communities, bringing our unique thinking, backgrounds, experiences and culture to the organization and our work. RCAC fosters an inclusive, collaborative workplace environment where our colleagues and partners are valued and treated with respect so that the organization and people we serve can excel."

Learn more here: RCAC.org

Rural Democracy Initiative From their website:

"Rural Democracy Initiative (RDI) supports rural people working to transform their lives and communities in service of shared prosperity and democracy. We invest in permanent civic engagement, issue advocacy, community organizing infrastructure, and sustainable urban-rural coalitions. In addition to grantmaking, RDI also supports rural leaders and organizations through convening, research, and communications."

Learn more here: RuralDemocracyInitiative.org

Rural Organizing From their website:

"In small towns and rural communities across the country, authentic relationships are the foundation for community change. Tip O'Neill famously said, "All politics is local," but we've found that rural politics are also personal. We believe that communities, causes, and candidates must leverage these relationships in order to organize and mobilize rural communities toward enduring and sustainable change. With smart communications and strategic distributive organizing, we will empower rural progressives and develop, pass, and implement policy platforms needed to rebuild small towns across America."

Learn more here: RuralOrganizing.org

Rural Organizing Project From their website:

"Rural Organizing Project is a state-wide organization that supports a multi-issue, rural-centered, grassroots base in Oregon. We work to build and support a shared standard of human dignity: the belief in the equal worth of all communities, the need for equal access to justice and the right to self-determination."

"Our mission is to strengthen the skills, resources, and vision of primary leadership in local autonomous human dignity groups with a goal of keeping such groups a vibrant source for a just democracy."

Learn more here: ROP.org

United Rural Democrats From their website:

"United Rural Democrats was founded in September 2020 to provide rural Democrats with the support they need to organize effectively. Strong candidates in traditionally "red" parts of our country had not been getting the resources they needed to compete.

United Rural Democrats (URD) is focused on rebuilding Democratic investment in rural political infrastructure. A lot of our rural neighbors are open to the ideas of the Democratic party, but are disengaged by classic party messaging. We seek to combat this, ending rural isolation and building community trust. We continue to work with campaigns and candidates all across the nation in our fight to cut rural America in on the deal."

Learn more here: UnitedRuralDemocrats.org