West Virginia Funding & Opportunities

Appalachian Region Business Builder Subawards Inactive
Grants to support projects focused on meeting regional needs and increasing capacity among food and farm businesses working toward expansion in local and regional food markets in the Appalachian region. Eligible projects include planning, implementation, and expansion in the areas of food safety, worker safety improvements, infrastructure, food access, and business development.

READY Appalachia Grants to Grow Inactive
Grants to organizations seeking to build individual, organizational, and/or community capacity across the Appalachian region.

Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund Inactive
Funds programs that work in the areas of affordable housing and shelter, education and youth development, environmental stewardship, workforce, and human services within the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation service area.

Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC): Grant Initiative for the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border Regions Inactive
Grants for projects in the Appalachian, Lower Mississippi Delta, and Northern Border regions that will provide career, training, and support services to eligible individuals in counties and parishes and/or areas currently underserved by other resources. Grants will support workforce development activities that prepare dislocated workers, new entrants to the workforce, and incumbent workers for good jobs in high-demand occupations aligned with a regional or community economic development strategy. High demand industries include manufacturing, IT, healthcare, and energy.

West Virginia Nursing Scholarship Program Inactive
Scholarships for LPN, RN, LPN, teaching certificate, masters, and doctoral nursing students who agree to complete a service obligation in West Virginia.

Appalachian Community Fund General Fund Inactive
Grants to community-based organizations that address underlying causes of the economic and social distress, poverty, and oppression in the Central region of Appalachia.

West Virginia Virtual Summer Academy Inactive
A virtual training from Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine for undergraduate students in West Virginia who want to prepare for medical school.

West Virginia Recruitment and Retention Community Project Inactive
Grants to eligible healthcare employers in rural West Virginia to provide loan repayment assistance to primary care health professionals who agree to practice in underserved areas.

West Virginia State Loan Repayment Program Inactive
Loan repayment assistance for primary care health professionals who agree to practice in a Health Professional Shortage Area of West Virginia.

Opportunity Appalachia Targeted Technical Assistance Inactive
Targeted technical assistance for downtown and rural development projects in Appalachian counties across 6 states. Priorities include projects focusing on downtown development, housing, manufacturing, IT, healthcare, education, food systems, clean energy, heritage tourism, and recreation.