We wholly or partially own a family of employment-based social enterprises designed to diversify the regional economy. By “employment-based” we mean enterprises that exist for the purpose of advancing the well-being of its employees, which we do primarily through our personal and academic development programming. Our enterprise’s successes are measured according to a triple bottom line: people, places, prosperity. Revenue from our social enterprises enables our organization create hundreds of jobs and to be less grant-dependent and more financially sustainable. Our communities are severely economically distressed. Therefore, creating new businesses is critical to realizing our vision; otherwise, our trainees and graduates would often have nowhere to put their new training and credentials to use.
Our family of social enterprises inspire the courage to grow, the creativity to transform perceived liabilities into assets, and the community needed to cultivate real opportunity in Appalachia through mentorship, education and employment.
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Inspiring the courage to grow, activating the creativity to innovate, and cultivating communities of opportunity in central Appalachia.