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Advancing rural well-being through innovation.
AscendRural accelerates progress on rural well-being challenges by bringing together communities, technology innovators, and partners to identify shared needs, advance promising solutions, and expand their reach across rural America.
We help rural communities define their challenges and discover solutions that fit their needs, innovators navigate and grow in rural markets, and strategic partners and funders turn shared priorities into meaningful impact.
By the numbers
14
8
Pilots in queue
Pilots executed
Startups rural ready through AscendRural
250+
Startups engaged
16
Rural changemakers convened
5
Publications
250+
Featured technology opportunity
Mental health ecosystem accelerator
AscendRural, a program of Sourcewell, is accepting applications for the Mental Health Ecosystem Accelerator, a four-week program connecting technology companies with rural stakeholders who are actively looking for solutions. The accelerator targets the gaps that make rural mental health care hard to coordinate. The curriculum is built to move selected companies toward a lasting partnership with a community partner.
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A new path to government procurement built with rural communities at the center
A new initiative is redefining how technology startups connect with public sector opportunities. AscendRural, a program of Sourcewell, is introducing a scalable, challenge-based procurement model designed to better serve rural communities.