In 2016, the Natural Capital Investment Fund (NCIFund) partnered with the Hatfield McCoy Trail Authority and Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College (Southern) to drive recreational tourism development in the coalfields of southern West Virginia. Through ARC POWER funding, the partners launched a revolving loan…

The Appalachian Hatchery is a project of the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Established in 2017 with support from ARC via the POWER Initiative, the U.S. Economic Development Administration and the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, RCBI is a centralized support center for manufacturing,…