The Partnership for Rural Improvement (PRI) was established in 1976 with support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. It was formed as a consortium of educational institutions, public service agencies and citizens to act as a catalyst for community improvement. Its objectives include 1)identifying rural planning development goals, and 2) providing a mechanism and a process for linking citizen-defined goals with institutional and agency capacities for assisting communities in reaching those goals.
PRI is headquartered at Washington State University. Since its establishment, the PRI has involved itself in such programs as assistance to pregnant and parent teens, task forces on rural crime, rural transportation, and railroad abandonment. Records cover the period from 1972 to 1986.
Booklets and files from the WSU Partnership for Rural Improvement from 1976-2004. These booklets include Public Forum reports, proposals, worksheets, and commitment to change books.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Contains mostly proposals and annual reports related to the improvement of education in rural areas. The booklets are in no particular order but are labeled by year and subject.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Partnership for Rural Improvement Records, Publications, 1976-2004 (UA2008-09)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The provenance of this material is unknown. It was received at WSU Libraries' MASC on July 08, 2008 and retained as UA2008-09.
(MASC STAFF USE) To be processed jointly with other PRI accessions, consider reprocessing jointly with Archives 192 and Archives 235. If not reprocessed with those, then at least this needs checked against those to avoid duplication of materials in them.
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