This calendar illustrates the impact you helped achieve during the past year. We appreciate your commitment to creating vibrant family farms and ranches, small businesses, and communities. Thank you from the staff and board of the Center for Rural Affairs.
A note from our executive director...
Dear Friends,
The past year tested the Center. Major changes in Washington, D.C. brought sweeping changes that will deeply impact rural people, organizations, and businesses for decades to come.
The Center also experienced several grant terminations, most notably our major Solar for All award.
As always, our staff responded by engaging policymakers and advocating for federal programs that align with our mission and values. Despite major setbacks, public pressure in some cases led decision makers in Washington to reverse course and restore important programs.
The Center itself remains a carefully managed organization. While the loss of federal funding presents meaningful challenges, we remain strong, with a diverse and resilient set of funding streams. Thanks to your support, we continue advancing programs that embody our mission—work you’ll see reflected in the pages of this calendar.
In the year ahead, we will find new ways to move our work forward and rise to meet the challenges before us.
Brian Depew
Executive Director
