Organizations

The following organizations, located throughout Central Appalachia, are a sampling of the groups working for a better future in the region. Their websites contain a host of resources about everything from regional history to local community organizing to specific information about ways to move our communities and region forward.

• Alliance for Appalachia
• Appalachian Center for Economic Networks
• Appalachian Center for the Economy and Environment
• Appalachian Citizens Law Center
• Appalachian Community Fund
• Appalachia-Science in the Public Interest
• Appalachian Studies Association
• Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project
• Appalachian Sustainable Development
• Appalachian Voices
• Appalachian Women’s Alliance
• Appalshop
• Big Creek People in Action
• Brushy Fork Institute
• Center for Economic Options
• Center for Rural Strategies
• Central Appalachian Network
• Christians for the Mountains
• Citizens Conservation Corps of West Virginia
• Clinch Coalition
• Coal River Mountain Watch
• Community Economic Development Network of East Tennessee
• Community Farm Alliance
• Community Foundation of Hazard and Perry County
• Downstream Strategies
• Entrepreneurship for the Public Good
• Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises
• Hazard-Perry County Community Ministries
• Heartwood
• Highlander Research and Education Center
• In Praise of Mountain Women
• JOBS Project
• The Jubilee Project
• Just Connections
• Keeper of the Mountains Foundation
• Kentuckians For The Commonwealth
• Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation
• Meadowview Farmers’ Guild
• Mountain Association for Community Economic Development
• The Mountain Institute
• Natural Capital Investment Fund
• Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
• Owsley County Action Team
• Partnership of African American Churches
• People Incorporated of Southwest Virginia
• Pine Mountain Settlement School
• Rural Action
• Sierra Club Environmental Justice
• Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment
  (formerly, Save Our Cumberland Mountains)
• Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
• Southern Appalachian Labor School
• Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards
• South Wings
• Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center, Inc
• Virginia Organizing Project
• West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
• West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
• Woodland Community Land Trust

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