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In this special partnership with Echoing Green, you’ll discover how you can harness your day-to-day choices to create a collective transformation.

Of thousands of applicants, our own Sara Day Evans was selected for the Echoing Green fellowship!

Accelerating Appalachia founder Sara Day Evans was interviewed by Erin Axelrod for The Lift Economy Podcast in an episode fittingly titled “Making America Regenerative Again.”

Lush Cosmetics North America, the globe’s most ethically sourced cosmetics company has just announced support for our new regenerative business curriculum “Building Soil and Soul”!

…Fully funded in record time: 6 days! Floyd’s Farm & Home received a $10,000, 0% Kiva loan.

Storm Cloud Media spent some time with us in Appalachia. Watch our featured video to learn more about the heart of Accelerating Appalachia.

We are excited to partner on HempX Asheville, the first festival in North Carolina with a focus on educating the public on the multiple uses and diversity of products that come from industrial hemp.

The 2015 Accelerating Appalachia nature-based businesses will be presenting at the Pitch Party in Asheville on May 14th.

In 2014 the Capital Institute published its Field Guide for a Regenerative Economy and featured Accelerating Appalachia as a leader in the field of nature-based business support.

Accelerating Appalachia is honored to be featured in a new organizational trailer by the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).

This triple bottom line of “people, place, prosperity” can only move forward if we engage in solutions and support for good businesses in the private sector.

On November 12-13, Accelerating Appalachia founder Sara Day Evans will be speaking alongside international thought leaders and local change makers at Neighborhood Economics.

We’re excited to be featured in a new Climate Listening Project for our work accelerating sustainable businesses in Western North Carolina.

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!