To increase undergraduate student completion rates by employing intentionally scaffolded evidence-based practices throughout the first two years of students’ academic careers (over two years)
Concord University Research and Development Corporation Archive
To continue formalizing workforce development curriculum in agriculture and expanding capacity by conducting strategic planning and board development through a partnership with Coalfield Development Corporation
To develop a robust and well-resourced network of K-12 youth-serving practitioners to increase access to entrepreneurial opportunities for youth (over two years)
To support an Appalachian Regional Commission ARISE grant application to develop a tri-state regional green building supply chain
To reduce illness, disability, and death related to tobacco use by educating and equipping community leaders and health providers with tobacco cessation skills and working with managed care organizations to increase billable services
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)
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)
To improve cross-generational educational access, engagement, and identity for rural families in Tucker County, West Virginia through the facilitation of co-designed, sociocultural experiences
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)
For the Child Care Invest Project which will improve the child care infrastructure allowing increased access to affordable, quality, early childhood programs and will advocate for expansion of funding for child care