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  • AdventHealth Manchester
  • Appalachia Service Project
  • Appalachian Early Childhood Network
  • Appalshop, Inc.
  • Breathitt County Extension
  • Christmas for Charity
  • City of Whitesburg
  • Come-Unity Cooperative Care
  • Corbin Public Library
  • Cowan Community Action Group, Inc.
  • Days of Grace Food Pantry
  • East Kentucky Health Services Center
  • Floyd County Homeless Shelter
  • Hand in Hand Ministries
  • Hazard/Perry County Chamber of Commerce
  • Housing Development Alliance, Inc.
  • Jackson County Development Association
  • KEENStart
  • Kentucky River Child Advocacy Center
  • Knott Drug Abuse Council
  • Knox County Farmers’ Market
  • Leatherwood Re-enactment Corporation
  • Leslie County Animal Shelter
  • Living Stone Outreach Ministries
  • New Beginnings Center for Children and Families
  • Pathfinders of Perry County
  • Sand Gap Christian Church Food Bank
  • STAY Project
  • The David School
  • Whitley County Farmers Market Inc.
  • Adventure Learning Center
  • Appalachian Artisan Center
  • Appalachian Mentoring Project
  • Awesome Center for Entrepreneurship (DBA Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame)
  • Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky
  • City of Hazard
  • Clay County Cooperative Extension Office
  • Community Farm Alliance, Inc
  • Corbin Senior Citizen Center
  • Cowan Creek Community Center
  • Dewey Dam Dog & Cat Protection Society
  • Farmers Market Double Dollars
  • God’s Appalachian Partnership Pantry
  • Hazard Community & Technical College
  • Hindman Settlement School
  • InVision Hazard
  • Kentucky Colonels
  • Kentucky River Regional Animal Shelter
  • Laurel County African American Heritage Center, Inc.
  • Leslie County Fiscal Court
  • LKLP Community Action Council, Inc.
  • Northfork Local Food, Inc.
  • Perry County Extension Office
  • Pike County Extension
  • Sandy Valley Habitat for Humanity
  • The Appalachian Center for the Arts, Inc.
  • Williamsburg Senior Citizen Center
  • American Red Cross Eastern Kentucky Chapter
  • Appalachian Arts Alliance, Inc.
  • Appalachian Research & Defense Fund of Kentucky
  • Big Creek Missions
  • Christian Life Fellowship Pantry
  • City of Hyden
  • Clinton County High School
  • Corbin Cares
  • Council on Foundations
  • Daniel Boone Community Action Agency, Inc.
  • Disabled American Veterans Chapter 128
  • Fishes and Loaves Food Pantry
  • Grace Hopkins Ruml Children’s Fund
  • Hazard Downtown Incentive Program
  • HOMES, Inc.
  • Jackson County Cooperative Extension Service
  • Jackson County Food Bank, Inc.
  • Kentucky Infant Development Station (KIDS)
  • Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music
  • Laurel County Older Persons Activity Center (OPAC)
  • Leslie County High School
  • Main Street Pineville
  • One East Kentucky
  • Redbud Financial Alternatives, Inc
  • St. Vincent Mission
  • The Crater of Hope, Inc.
  • The Pine Mountain Settlement School
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
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