Multiply your community impact with the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky through the L.I.F.T. Fund In order to capture this funding, our communities must be ready to submit competitive applications. A major barrier many communities face is a lack of access to required matching funds for ... KEEP READING
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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 ... KEEP READING
Pikeville Community Foundation Awards $15,000 in Scholarships
The Pikeville Community Foundation awarded $15,000 scholarships to Shelby Valley High School seniors from the Woodrow and Evelyn Johnson fund. This fund is advised by the Pikeville Community Foundation board and held at the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky. Students can receive recurring ... KEEP READING
Floyd County Community Foundation makes Grant to The David School
The Floyd County Community Foundation recently awarded a $4,000 grant to The David School. The grant will be used to help fund a science lab for teaching general chemistry, physics, and advanced biology classes. The David School is a nonprofit educational facility located in David, KY (Floyd ... KEEP READING
The Fight to End Food Insecurity
The Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky has been working to tackle food insecurity, a prevalent problem throughout Kentucky. Food insecurity refers to the lack of access to nutritionally adequate foods for a healthy active life. It may reflect a household’s need to make trade-offs between ... KEEP READING
A Reflection on AIF’s First Five Years
Five years ago, the Appalachian Impact Fund (AIF) started with the passion of one family and a dream jotted down on a piece of paper that said we’d achieve a set of goals to redevelop downtowns, make impact investments into promising sectors, make grants to nonprofits creating economic opportunity, ... KEEP READING
AIF’s Co-Founder Reflects on Impact
Impact. Often an ill used word, sometimes obvious, sometimes not so much. The work- “impact”- of AIF over the past five years has been obvious in helping business, their employees and families within the region survive pandemics, floods, and the collapse of a mono-economy. Perhaps not so ... KEEP READING
A Message from Our CEO
It’s hard to know how to talk about what we have collectively been through as a country and a region over the last two years. It’s been a period of collective ambiguity, challenges, and a seemingly never-ending series of surprises. Many of us are ending this year wondering, “What could possibly come ... KEEP READING
First Homeowner Moves In at Gurney’s Bend!
New Homeowner Alfred has his own bedroom - and a bed to sleep in - for the first time in 10 years. For 10 years, Alfred slept on a couch every night so that his grandchildren could have a bed. His daughter and her children had to move in with Alfred all those years ago, even though his home ... KEEP READING
