Established in 1985 at The Aspen Institute, the Rural Economic Policy Program (REPP) fosters collaborative learning, leadership and innovation to advance rural community and economic development in the United States. REPP aims to help rural decisionmakers better understand how local choices and opportunities fit into the larger economy, and to speed the adoption and application of public and private initiatives that will sustain rural progress and improve the lives of rural people. Headquartered in Washington, DC, REPP is funded by The Ford and W.K. Kellogg Foundations.

The mission of The Aspen Institute is to improve the quality of leadership through dialogue about the values and ideas essential to meeting the challenges facing societies, organizations and individuals. The Institute provides a global forum where leaders from business, government, the professions, the arts and the not-for-profit sector can convene to consider rigorously the intellectual and moral truths that enable them to deal effectively with these challenges.

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