Our Statement on the Importance of Preserving the CDFI Fund After March 14 Executive Order Last Friday’s Executive Order affecting the Community ... Read This Post
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Flood Relief Resources
LAST UPDATED: April 19, 2025 Several counties in Eastern Kentucky were devastated by flood waters again this February and April 2025. We hope the ... Read This Post
Rebuilding with Cost Savings in Mind
Our Energy Team put together these energy savings tips for homeowners and businesses/nonprofits who are replacing building materials or undertaking ... Read This Post
Trading Traffic for Tractors: The Journey to Red Haven Farm
If you’d told Sandy Ross and Martin Caruana 10 years ago that they’d be raising pigs, hosting agate-hunting tours, and debating the finer points of ... Read This Post
How this Appalachian Author Turned Her Stories into a Thriving Business
For years, Diane Taylor Roberts held onto a manuscript filled with deeply personal short stories about growing up in Appalachia, specifically Whitley ... Read This Post
Leslie County Animal Shelter finds the purr-fect solar solution to cutting costs
This story was produced by Lisa Abelar for Resource Rural in partnership with Mountain Association. Anna Carey jokes that she might ... Read This Post
What Solar Means for Buckhorn Children and Family Services
Thanks to our partners at Appalachian Voices for this article! Buckhorn Children and Family Services held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new ... Read This Post
Crowdfunding 101
Many small business owners have unique ways of patching together the funds to get their business started. Katie Startzman of Berea, Kentucky may be ... Read This Post
Funding for Farm Energy Projects in Kentucky in 2025
Eastern Kentucky farms may be eligible to receive money for energy projects from the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy’s Kentucky Agricultural ... Read This Post
Understanding the Economic Impact of Recreation on Community Well-being and Sustainable Growth
This article is part of a series by Eastern Kentucky University graduate students and their professor, Michael Bradley, as they study recreation and ... Read This Post
How Kentucky Communities Can Benefit As Large-Scale Solar Comes to Town
This is an op-ed that appeared in several Kentucky outlets in December 2024. As Eastern Kentucky’s energy landscape becomes more diversified, solar ... Read This Post
We’re Still Here
One of the first activities that I participated in when I started as Mountain Association’s Outreach Specialist was the Native American Heritage ... Read This Post
