WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT CAN

SustainFloyd

The fact that active and experienced practitioners in the field inform and govern the program promotes a boots-on-the-ground perspective with a true understanding of the needs, challenges, and opportunities in Central Appalachia. When you have the Central Appalachian Network backing you, it helps a lot!

CAN Partner

Our relationship with CAN has been integral to staff professional development. It is extremely valuable given our remote, rural location to connect with others in the sector and continue evolving our best practices and tactics together.

CAN Grantee

We felt less alone and more inspired to create connections and develop effective and replicable work.

CAN Grantee

We found models for specific programs that we are interested in and/or have recommended to others.

WV Food & Farm Coalition

We will continue to utilize CAN's network of member organizations and partners by using them as mentors, resources, and sounding boards for our work.

CAN Grantee

We use CAN anchor organizations as mentors and bounce organizational and strategic ideas off of them.

CAN Partner

I appreciate and value the different perspectives the CAN members and partners bring to an issue. It helps elevate the conversation to a regional perspective.

CAN Partner

Small groups continue to emerge - first they connect to their neighbors, then their state, and then to the bigger region. It takes time, but it is happening.

Brandon Dennison, Coalfield Development Corporation

CAN made the first ever grant to our sustainable agriculture enterprise: Refresh Appalachia. CAN’s support of Refresh Appalachia highlights CAN at its best: deep, lasting networks that pioneer a new economic reality. CAN does a lot with a little.

CAN Convening Attendee

This experience was amazing and gave my job, passion, and mission more purpose and guidance.

CAN Convening Attendee

It was a great space to meet people from across the region and finally interact with people I was either emailing or hearing about through my work.