WRAPS stands for Workforce Readiness and Professional Success. WRAPS partnerships identify community-based organizations willing to implement our job training and personal development curriculum for local people facing barriers to employment.
Coalfield Development hosted the WRAPS Pitch Contest at the Small Communities Big Solutions Conference, where passionate entrepreneurs shared their innovative visions for Appalachia’s future. Watch the video for the full pitch contest.
EDGE is a model for the new rural & community-focused economy of local citizens rooted in the interconnected fundamentals of life:
food, meaningful livelihood, health of people & place, connection.
Unlimited Future, Inc. is a not-for-profit micro-enterprise development center and business incubator whose vision is to see a thriving economy supported by successful, locally owned businesses.
Our mission is to supply the tools, resources, and connections people need to improve their economic status.
As a 501 c-3 organization, New Vision Renewable Energy knows that our strength lies not only in the words we stand by, but most importantly through the actions of our initiatives. New Vison was started as a local community training center. Over the years we have developed into an international community organization that brings solar lights (with the help of local school students who put the light kits together as part of their STEM education) to those in our world that do not have a clean source of light to use, we mentor at risk youth in our community through our peer and parent mentoring, and we re-energize our community through community recreation projects.
Established in 1975, Stepping Stones, Inc. is a fully licensed child welfare and behavioral health provider with over forty-six years’ experience in working with West Virginia’s troubled and troubling youth and their families. The therapeutic milieu is family centered and youth focused and provides youth with an opportunity to enhance cognitive competence, internalize coping skills and develop an “I Can” attitude. Through restructuring, re education and reintegration, Stepping Stones seeks to strengthen the youth’s relationship with family and community. The Program firmly believes that discovering and uncovering the connectedness of the youth and his family with the community is paramount in treatment delivery.
Step by Step is dedicated to people working together to achieve their dreams in kindred communities across Southern West Virginia through dialogue, education and the arts, wellness, local leadership and resources, and service.
Since 1995, ASD has been working to grow a stronger Appalachia through agriculture. We do that through five different focus areas: Food Access, Agriculture Education, Workforce Development, Resource Management, and Economic Development
At Keep Your Faith Corporation, every service we offer is designed to empower our neighbors with the tools to thrive. We define thriving communities by referencing the 7 vital conditions framework outlined by The Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience (ELTRR).
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