West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History Archive

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

To advance child well-being in West Virginia through data, partnerships, and advocacy to ensure the sustainability of KIDS COUNT

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)

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 a comprehensive program to serve individuals as they are released from jails/prisons to support basic needs (housing, food insecurity, transportation) and to connect them to established employment support programs

To work with the West Virginia Center for Civic Life and partner with West Virginia University Parkersburg students to develop deliberative engagement skills, practice engagement skills in local forums, and empower students to train others

For the expansion of a school-based model for incorporating data mapping and visualization into a cross-section of courses

To strengthen West Virginia’s manufacturing career pipeline through the advancement of manufacturing education

For support to the agroforestry economy to assist in the diversification of non-timber forest products and the general increase in the utilization of emerging methodologies in production processes

To study the feasibility of developing a rail trail along an inactive rail line owned by Norfolk Southern that stretches from Kenova, West Virginia to Beech Fork State Park