Coalfield Blog

A Bright Future

Last year, we reached an important milestone as an organization: topping 100 new jobs created as a direct result of our interventions…

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Coalfield Blog

Starbucks UPSTANDERS

In the fall of 2013, when Tracy Spaulding was a high school sophomore, the coal mine in his West Virginia town closed. And with it, he assumed, went his path…

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Coalfield Blog

We Must Believe

One hot July evening, I had a conversation with a contractor that literally went as follows: After pitching my green collar jobs idea, he responded: “Wayne County?!?!…

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