West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. Archive

To develop local, state and federal funding and policy strategies which will accelerate demolition or rehabilitation of vacant and abandoned properties in communities throughout West Virginia

To support commercial real estate redevelopment projects through targeted technical assistance, predevelopment services and financing (over three years)

To expand the services and geographic reach of the Center for Woman’s Entrepreneurship

For public art and wayfinding signage to accelerate recreational tourism along the Monongahela-Marianna Trail

To expand a business assistance program to northern West Virginia and western Pennsylvania through a network of workforce development boards

For Trail Town development within a five-state trail network

To launch the Mon Valley Creative Corridor, an economic development effort to grow cultural tourism and support artist entrepreneurs in Monongahela River Towns

To scale the West Virginia solar market through a public awareness and education campaign, technical assistance to business and community partners, and solar cooperatives

For matching funds to undertake a creative place-making strategy for West Virginia to enhance quality of community life and tourism-based economic development

To strengthen, systematize, sustain, and scale the organization’s approach to economic diversification in southern West Virginia, to promote job creation and business development (over two years)