RDLN National Network Assembly
RDLN holds National Network Assemblies approximately every other year, for these Assemblies Network each participant's circle expands beyond the small group with whom s/he shared the experience of the Rural Development Insitute at the University of California at Davis.
Assemblies are hosted by RDLN Leaders' organizations in rural areas. Attendees visit local projects and share local culture. Each Assembly includes workshops, a Circle of Sharing, Network Planning, and a graduation ceremony for those who have completed the program.
 2006
Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Southern Rural Black Women's Initiatives
Georgia Baptist Conference Center
Norman Park, Georgia
 2004
Organización en California de Lideres Campesinas
St. Francis Retreat Center
San Juan Bautista, California
 2002
Salish Kotenai College
Ktunaxa Community Development Corporation (KCDC)
Blue Bay
Flathead Reservation, Montana
 1999
Children and Family Services
Covington, Tennesse
Brigadoon Farm
Olive Branch, Mississippi
 1997
Community Councill of Southwest Texas
Neal's Lodges
Concan, Texas
In the hill country of Texas, RDLN met for workshops on marketing, use of simultaneous translation equipment, and surviving internal organizational conflict. The group visited sites of
our host, the Community Councill of Southwest Texas, with a cultural performance in Del Rio, a computer class at the junior college in Uvalde, and a dinner in Mexico.
Members of RDLN's new Rural Women's Product Development & Marketing Venture were present.
Graduation speakers were Moises Loza, Chiair of RDLN's Board of Directors and Billie Jean Young, former Chairwoman.
 1995
Taos County Economic Development Corporation
Mable Dodge Luhan House
Taos, New Mexico
After our trip to Beijing, RDLN held an Assemblly in Taos. Among the activities were a Report from Beijing and planning for the Rural Technical Assistance Network. We visited the Pueblo Indians buffalo project and Taos County Economic Development's business incubator.
The graduation speaker was Richard Archuletta, of the War Chiefs office at the Taos Pueblo.
 1993
Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center
Some attendees came early and visited the sites of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in Epes, Alabama; Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center in Marvell, Arkansas; and housing projects of Voice of Calvary Ministries in Jackson, Mississippi.
RDLN had a ceremonial "Challenge to Churches" on the banks of the Arkansas River. We read our Statement on Land (originally composed in 1992) and challenged churches to turn over some of their land to community groups.
Our graduation speaker was Bob Nash, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
 1991
The Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Western Reserve State Park
Wilma Mankiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, gave the graduation speech.
(l to r) Rose Sanders, Starry Krueger,
Wilma Mankiller, Unita Blackwell, Billie Jean Young
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