1. Start-Up Appalachia
A proposed framework for accelerating economic
development through funder collaboration

2. •Self-sustaining communities
•Creates jobs
•Builds local wealth
•Contributes to economic and
community development
Entrepreneurship

3.  Appalachian Regional Commission
 USDA- Rural Development
 Appalachia Funders Network Members
Collaborators

4.  Not a “new” project—Enhancement!
 Stimulates new investment
 Aligns collective, yet independent efforts
 Common set of promising sectors &
entrepreneurial supports
Framework

5.  Food Systems
 Energy
 Health Care
Promising Sectors

6.  Branding
 Leadership
 Strategy
 Capital
Value of Collaboration

7.  Expanding existing or catalyzing new
efforts
 A “Capture Strategy”
 Overlapping Interests
 Measurable Outcomes
Key Components

8.  Initiatives are identified:
◦ AFN members, ARC, USDA-RD (within promising
sectors)
 Initiatives selected
 Overlapping interests identified
 Capture Strategies developed to take
initiatives to the „next level‟
 Initiatives/projects supported by
collaborators
 Common measurement employed
 Results shared

9.  ARC, USDA and AFN member support
 Loans for EE retrofits based on energy
audits/ cost savings
 Process: engage businesses, conduct
audits, deploying $$
 Challenge: Reaching high-savings
potential borrowers, energy audit backlog,
educating borrowers.
Example NCIF- Energy Efficiency

10.  Efficiency of investments
 Common objectives
 Faster, smarter, better
 Clarity
 Alignment
 Troubleshooting
 Opportunity Development
 New entrepreneurs, New Jobs, Retained
Wealth!
So What?

11. What do you think?