Author Archives: Laura Fernandez

Smiling Hara Tempeh, LLC in North Carolina is campaigning to create the first-ever Hempeh, soy-free tempeh, with hemp from Kentucky’s Growing Warriors.

Accelerating Appalachia’s founder, Sara Day Evans, has been selected to represent Appalachia in BALLE’s Local Economy Fellowship.

At SOCAP14 in San Francisco, 2500 entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and community leaders from across the globe are coming together to discuss breaking new ground in social impact and Igniting Vibrant Communities.

Accelerating Appalachia founder is proud to be invited to be a BALLE Fellow and participate in the BALLE Conference in California.

Accelerating Appalachia co-hosted Slow Money NC: Financing our Foodshed meeting on Sunday, Aug. 24.

SOCAP14 will unite innovators in business, tech, the sharing economy, health, philanthropy, and more to advance environmental and social causes.

Accelerating Appalachia showed their support at the launch of the Williamson Health and Wellness Center which is a health innovation hub in Williamson WV.

Startup Product Asheville holds regular events for people who are passionate about product excellence and want to come together to collaborate about what it really takes to produce products.

Accelerating Appalachia participated in the Growing Warriors hemp planting event in Rockcastle County Ky.

On Sunday May 18th, Sara Day Evans had the opportunity to attend the inaugural at the Hindman Settlement School in Knott county Ky.

Accelerating Appalachia had the exciting opportunity to work this spring with Warren Wilson College in teaching a sustainable business and entrepreneurship course.

Sara Day Evans, a sixth generation Kentuckian, tells the story of the people and places that inspired her to found Accelerating Appalachia.

We could not have gotten where we are now without our mentoring accelerator, Village Capital. Thank you for everything!

As a United Nations working group negotiates a set of “sustainable development goals,” 10 scientists and development analysts, in a commentary published today in Nature, have proposed a fundamentally different way to frame this concept.

Accelerating Appalachia is the world’s first nature-based business accelerator, attracting and scaling high-impact innovative businesses aligned with place, people and prosperity.

It is with great appreciation that we welcome our $85,000 grant from Advantage West and the Appalachian Regional Commission for the next 2.5 years!

Do you know an entrepreneur or business that’s doing great stuff in food, farming, forests, fibers, energy, medicinal herbs, outdoor industry… let us know!

Our accelerator will bring together 16-20 entrepreneurs over a 10-12 week period.

We are so excited to have established a partnership with one the most successful accelerator models in the world, Village Capital.

I’ll be advocating for Vermont’s Collective Impact to Transform a Food System with my friends in state, regional, local governments and the private and non-profit sectors.

I’m writing from Hayes and Divisidero in the NOPA district of San Fran. Ready to plunge into SOCAP.

24 Must-Read Blogs For Entrepreneurs via Insider.

Developing my timeline for GrittyWorks, the new name for our accelerator. looking at different business model templates, liking the Business Model Canvas right now.

I’m ready to ask my friends and kindly strangers from around the world to help grow this sweet accelerator to help the land economies of Appalachia.