Highlander Research and Education Center, Inc. Archive

To support a program to engage 15 fellows across Central Appalachia focused on building individual, organizational, and community capacity to advance economic transition (over three years)

To conduct a regional capacity assessment of the existing care system for seniors

To support strategies to increase the supply of West Virginia food products to schools, and to promote a food hub for regional product aggregation and distribution

To provide self-paced mathematics software aligned to Common Core Standards

Establish site rotations for physician assistant students in rural areas in an effort to increase the medical workforce in southern West Virginia, payable over two years

To support implementation of the West Virginia Blueprint for Technology-Based Economic Development, including expansion of the Innovation Adoption Program for small manufacturers (over two years)

To expand the West Virginia Farm to School Initiative to increase purchasing of West Virginia farm products

Matching funds for the 2013/2014 West Virginia Flex-E-Grant program

To provide education to West Virginians to promote better child health in the State

To support new business formation and growth through technical assistance and early-stage capital investment (over 18 months)