The Rural Digital Resiliency Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501c3 organization 

advancing public understanding of the unique risks America’s rural community members face online. We assemble different perspectives, research methods, and engaged journalism practices to illuminate these challenges. We foster independent media to increase access to and trust in community information, and we prioritize collaborations between journalism, academic and civil society orgs to better serve the public interest. Our research and educational programs cultivate digital entrepreneurship and opportunity for rural youth, while strengthening resources for mitigating harms including AI and digital safety and security and countering susceptibility to manipulation, exploitation and exposure to violence and other harmful content online.

Our work seeks to support the conditions for healthier communities on and offline. This includes community media production, reporting, trainings, and programs within Appalachia and in rural communities nationwide. We bring a community-based, trauma-informed perspective to all the work that we do, and we emphasize strategic collaborations to scale work with partners across the country to be responsive to local and regional needs. We work with partners across journalism, academic, civil society, public health and technology sectors, and focus on building cohesion and intention among our collaborators to achieve better representations of rural interests and widespread public impact in rural and local communities nationwide.