ABSTRACT This study explores the organizing strategies of a nonprofit organization working to address rural food insecurity. I worked alongside Sustainable Appalachia, a nonprofit organization operating to create sustainable food systems for the people of Appalachia Ohio. Through ethnographic-based research I worked with this organization over the course of one year by volunteering as a clerk at a produce auction, working in community gardens, and attending planning meetings. Throughout these activities I collected discourse, including participant observation field notes, semi-structured interviews, promotional materials, and participatory sketching. Within and through these discourses, I began to shape the theoretical concept of narrative resilience. As I explain, narrative resilience is place-based, heroic, and pragmatic. I end by offering ways in which this framework may be particularly useful to applied communication scholars interested in the study of resilience and nonprofit organizing.

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“像铁腕一样有韧性：”非营利组织的叙事韧性

摘要本研究探讨了致力于解决农村粮食不安全问题的非营利组织的组织策略。我与非营利组织“可持续阿巴拉契亚”一起工作，该组织致力于为俄亥俄州阿巴拉契亚人民创建可持续食品系统。通过基于人种学的研究，我在这个组织中工作了一年，自愿担任产品拍卖的文员，在社区花园工作并参加计划会议。在这些活动中，我收集了演讲内容，包括参与者的观察笔记，半结构化访谈，宣传材料和参与式素描。在这些论述中并通过这些论述，我开始塑造叙事适应力的理论概念。正如我所解释的，叙事弹性是基于地点的，英勇的和务实的。