Rural community colleges serve as engines of economic opportunity and equity, offering students place-based programs and pathways that lead to good jobs. They also develop dynamic and responsive industry partnerships, to ensure their workforce education and training curriculum, programs, and transfer pathways meet the needs of local employers and their rural communities. This report highlights how rural community college and industry partnerships benefit rural learners and employers alike and improve the overall economic prosperity of rural communities. National Skills Coalition (NSC) conducted interviews with leaders from ten rural community colleges and sixteen national and issue-area experts along with conducting a review of existing literature on rural communities, community colleges, and industry partnerships, and interactions during and lessons learned from national and regional rural community college convenings. Recommendations are provided for State and local policymakers, officials, and administrators to expand awareness of the variety of rural contexts, and the state systems, investments, and policies, that can help drive and sustain effective rural community college and industry partnerships.