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Catch up with the latest news and announcements from Accelerating Appalachia.

Neighborhood Economics

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

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Climate Listening Project

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

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Accelerating Agriculture with Hemp

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.

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The Nature of Investing at #SOCAP14

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.

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Presentation at Startup Product Asheville

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.

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Appalachian Food Summit

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

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Accelerating Appalachia in Triple Pundit

Accelerating Appalachia features as the nation’s first business accelerator focused on nature-based companies, to provide support to innovators solving environmental and/or social problems.

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Sustainable Development Goals

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.

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Overview of our Accelerator

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

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Village Capital Appalachia!

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

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SOCAP real world!

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

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