Connecting Resources and Communities
The Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky meets communities where they are. Because, at the end of the day, we trust that lasting community change begins with people rooted in them.
Discover funds that help you a give in a meaningful way.
Appalachian Arts Alliance, Inc. – Operating
Appalachian Big Ideas Fest
Appalachian Connection
Appalachian Crisis Aid
Appalachian Early Childhood Network
Appalachian Food Summit
Appalachian Impact Fund
Appalachians for Appalachia
ARH Foundation for Healthier Communities
Bluegrass Care Navigators
Breathitt County Community Health Foundation
Building Strong Families in Appalachia – A Collaborative Approach
Cameron Taylor Hoskins Foundation
Central Appalachian Family Farm Fund
Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky, Inc
Champions Club Fund
Clinton County Community Foundation
Clinton County Farmers Market
Coal for Kids
Community Sports League
Craft Scholars
Drone Port of Kentucky, Inc.
Eastern Streams Community Early Childhood Council
Edith Campbell Educational Endowment
Farmers Market Double Dollars
Floyd County 396 Club
Floyd County Community Foundation
Floyd County Community Foundation – Campaigns
Floyd County Dolly Parton Imagination Library
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky – Operating
Friends of Buckhorn Lake State Resort Park
Friends of the App (Appalachian Center for the Arts)
Growing Our Own
Harlan County Fund
Hazard Civic Fellows Dog Park
Hazard Downtown Incentive Program
Hazard Independent College Foundation
Hazard Perry County Senior Citizens
Hazard Rotary Foundation, Inc.
Hazard Sailing School
Healthcare Backgrounds Health and Environment Scholarship Fund
Hillcraft Development Corporation
Housing Development Alliance, Inc.
Individuals Supporting Bulldog Education (ISBE)
InVision Hazard
InVision Hazard Downtown Wi-Fi Fund
Jackson County Community Foundation – Campaigns
Jackson County Community Fund
Johnson County Community Foundation
Kentucky Equal Voices Network
Kentucky Infant Development Station, Inc.
Kentucky Mountain Health Alliance, Inc.
Kentucky National Lands Trust Endowment Fund
Kentucky River Children’s Advocacy Center
Kentucky River Region Animal Shelter
Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music
Knott County Community Foundation
Lee County Fund
Leslie County 404 Club
Leslie County Community Foundation
Leslie County Community Foundation- Campaigns
Letcher County Community Foundation
Leveraging Enterprise in Appalachia Fund (LEAF)
Levi Jackson Park Foundation
Moonbow Fund for the Arts
Mountain Arts Center Fund
Mountain Women Mean Business
New Beginnings Center for Children & Families Inc.
Northfork Local Food
Pathfinders of Perry County
Perry County Community Foundation
Perry County Community Foundation – Campaigns
Perry County Cooperative Extension Service/4H
Perry County Rural Accelerator Initiative
Pikeville Community Foundation
PLACE
Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency/Buckhorn Children & Family Services
Red River Gorge Community Relief and Resiliency Fund
Redbud Financial Alternatives
Robbie Davis Memorial Foundation
Southeast Kentucky African American Museum and Cultural Center, Inc.
TEK Center
The Lige Clarke Liberation Fund
Grantmaking increasing public support for queer rights and equality in Appalachian Kentucky; promoting and fostering queer leadership within regional nonprofits; supporting the creation of queer spaces, art, and media; providing queer youth with financial and other supports for seeking education. Donations to Lige Clarke Liberation Fund – Honoring Shelbiana Clarke Rhein In lieu of flowers… KEEP READING
Thoroughbred Relief Building Fund
United Way of Southeastern Kentucky
Upper Cumberland Community Foundation
Upper Cumberland Community Foundation – Campaigns
Wendal Mitchell Memorial Fund
Wendover Preservation Fund
Whitley County Dolly Parton Imagination Library
Whitley County Rural Accelerator Initiative
Why Whitley
Youth Leadership & Philanthropy Initiative (YLPI)
Stories of Impact
The Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky invests in people rooted in communities working toward lasting, positive change.
June 1, 2022
Celebrating Kentuckian and LGBTQ+ Activist, Lige Clarke
Elijah “Lige” Clarke (1942-1975) was a native of Hindman, Kentucky and a formative figure of the Queer Liberation Movement in the mid-20th Century. In the mid-1960’s, while he was in the US Army (with top security clearances, assigned to the Army’s Chief-of-Staff at the Pentagon), Lige would pass out gay rights pamphlets in the evenings…. KEEP READING
December 22, 2022
Housing Can’t Wait
Affordable Housing through Community Partnership At the 2022 Appalachian Big Ideas Festival, the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky announced alongside Fahe, the Housing Development Alliance and HOMES, Inc. that we would be partnering to build 16 new homes for flood survivors. The housing plan is supported by a $50,000 investment from Fahe and $1.23 million from… KEEP READING
December 22, 2022
Newly Appointed Executive Director of the Appalachian Impact Fund
Dear Friends, This year has been one of juxtapositions for the Appalachian Impact Fund—laughter and crying, celebrations and grieving, innovation and destruction, stability and transitions—but we move into 2023 as a stronger and more united community. As many of you know, after five years of founding, growing, and leading the Appalachian Impact Fund as its… KEEP READING
November 22, 2022
Introducing the Knott County Community Foundation
Welcome to the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky The Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky is pleased to announce its newest affiliate, the Knott County Community Foundation. The affiliate program was created to combine deep understanding of community priorities and passion of local people with the support and expertise of a nationally accredited foundation. When these two come… KEEP READING
