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
- Sequestering Carbon, Accelerating Local Economies
- 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