September 25, 2025
Campbell Grain & Livestock
Franklin, Indiana
Picture this: a crisp fall evening, long tables under the stars, and the kind of community who shows up for the good stuff and the hard stuff. That’s what the Harvest Dinner is all about.
We’re gathering at Campbell Grain & Livestock for a one-night-only outdoor dinner to raise funds for the Rural Gone Urban Foundation. This isn’t your average fundraiser—it’s a celebration of grit, legacy, and women who show up when life gets hard.
Enjoy a locally sourced meal catered by Spegal’s Prime Cuts, live music from Indiana native Grace Scott, and creative energy from our live painter and sketch artist. You’ll hear directly from our founder, Brooke Clay Taylor—a Franklin native, business owner, and two-time cancer survivor—whose story will remind you why this work matters.
Your ticket supports scholarships for gritty, hardworking students; small business grants for women with big ideas; and Love Bombs for women in the fight of their lives with cancer
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Harvest Dinner Details
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Campbell Grain & Livestock
5417 East 300 North, Franklin, Indiana 431615:00 p.m. — Cocktails under the sky
6:00 p.m. — Dinner + Foundation Program
7:30 p.m. — Live music with Grace Scott Band -
Hear from Brooke Isley Clay Taylor
Born and raised in Franklin, Brooke Isley Clay Taylor is the founder of the Rural Gone Urban Foundation and a two-time cancer survivor. She’s showing up with her signature mix of grit and grace to share why this work matters—why funding scholarships, small business dreams, and Love Bombs for women walking through cancer changes lives.
She grew a baby and a cancer at the same time, and lived to talk about it. That perspective shapes everything.
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Music by Grace Scott Band
Indiana native Grace Scott brings soul and storytelling to the stage with a mix of original country songs and timeless hits that stretch across the decades. Her voice is captivating, her lyrics are heartfelt, and if you’re not swaying in your seat by the second song, check your pulse.
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Hosted at Campbell Grain & Livestock
A multi-generational working farm, Campbell Grain & Livestock is home to corn, soybeans, wheat, hogs, cattle, and a few dogs—and now, a farm dinner.
We’re grateful to the Campbell family for opening their front porch, their land, and their legacy to us. -
Shop Small
This isn’t your average vendor booth moment.
A curated selection of local, women-owned businesses will be onsite, sharing the kind of goods that carry stories with them. Come ready to browse, buy, and back small-town women doing big things.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Pull up a seat and help us make something special happen. Event sponsorships and table reservations are available on a first come, first served basis—and they go fast.
View the sponsorship packet to explore how your support can help fund scholarships, small business grants, and Love Bombs for women walking through cancer.
The Rural Gone Urban Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) organization.
Purchase Tickets
Brooke Clay Taylor founded The Rural Gone Urban Foundation to support strong women doing brave things.
A toddler mom and ranch girl at heart, Brooke Clay Taylor has lived a life punctuated by hard things.
At 6 years old, she lost her dad to colon cancer.
Before starting junior high, she traded her close-knit Indiana farming community for an Oklahoma cattle ranch.
As a senior in high school, her guidance counselor assessed her as “not college material,” recommending she was better suited for job training than degree-seeking.
She bet the house on love — and lost.
After a decade of building a career working for internationally recognized agriculture brands, she moved into her family’s horse barn to start over, launching a business with a single client and a prayer.
And in 2019, on the same day she gave birth to her daughter, she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, the worst, most aggressive form of the disease. Despite a complete pathological response to chemo and being declared cancer-free, in 2022, it returned for an act two.
But Brooke has faced exactly none of these roadblocks alone. Since she was small, her family, friends, and community have given Brooke the boosts she needed to rise to every challenge.
“Maybe the bravest thing,” Brooke says, “is admitting that while you could do it all by yourself, it’s okay to call on the people in your corner.”
In the wake of her second cancer diagnosis, Brooke launched The Rural Gone Urban Foundation to support brave, strong women who need people in their corner. The B and C students seeking scholarships. The small-town moms whose businesses only exist as ideas. And especially the women in the ring with cancer.
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Scholarship Program
By awarding scholarships that focus on work ethic and passion rather than GPA, our scholarship program aims to uplift rural women who demonstrate resilience and determination.
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Small Business Grants
Our small business grants provide essential funding to rural entrepreneurs for marketing assets, such as website development and social media strategies, helping women-owned businesses stand out in a competitive marketplace.
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Love Bomb Initiative
The Love Bomb Initiative provides acts of kindness and support to women in the trenches of cancer treatment and recovery. By offering unexpected gifts we remind gritty, passionate women — wives, mothers, daughters, and friends — they are brave, strong, and so much more than their diagnosis.
When a storm arises - literally or figuratively - we have an opportunity to lean into it, or run.
Bison do what any of us hope we’d do it in that situation — they face the storm.
While the others — elk, deer, moose, et al. - run, bison turn into the storm. And in doing so, they’re in midst of the storm for less time than those who are running with it.
The Rural Gone Urban Foundation supports brave and strong women. Those who turn into their storms. Those who refuse to backdown from a challenge.
Can’t Make It?
Contact us.
If you want to be a volunteer, we have a form for you! If you want to snag a sponsorship, complete the form below and we’ll be in touch!