McDowell County Commission On Aging, Inc. Archive

To reduce the rate of tobacco use among African Americans in West Virginia by building the capacity of the West Virginia African American Tobacco Prevention Network

For expansion of computer science instruction and professional development designed to support the integration of computer science curriculum in all core subject areas across grades 2-7 in the Sto-Rox School District

For the Appalachian Innovation Collective to provide nonprofit leadership and organizational development services to improve the capacity and quality of nonprofit organizations and their leaders (over two years)

For REACH, a program to increase matriculation, persistence, and graduation rates for under-represented and under-resourced students throughout their college career (over two years)

To increase consumption of fruits and vegetables among limited-resource youth by reducing food deserts and increasing nutrition education

To address housing, training, employment, and wraparound social services for young men through the New Vision Next Gen employment and ecosystem development project (over three years)

For the STEAM Power mini-grant program that encourages the integration of the Arts and STEM disciplines through school/community partnerships

To expand the CATCH My Breath vaping prevention program to an additional six West Virginia counties, 12 schools, and 4,000 students with the goal of preventing first use of nicotine (over two years)

To support an Appalachian Regional Commission ARISE grant application to develop a tri-state regional green building supply chain

To support the Constructing Jobs in West Virginia Coal Country project which is a collaboration between Mountwest Community and Technical College and Hope Nation to create a construction degree that leads to new jobs in coal-impacted counties (/3 yrs)