2020 Fahe Annual Report - Appalachia – Emerging Stronger

This plan builds on the foundation we’ve laid over the last 40 years and is guided by four cornerstones: increasing investment STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: in the region by $6 Billion, growing the capacity of our Membership, changing the narrative around Appalachia and other underserved regions of persistent poverty, and expanding our tent to include FY2020 Stats and Figures new partners and friends, ther. [...] We are living amidst the investment, and opportunity to their communities during the continue our work to construct a bigger tent with room for COVID-19 has revealed to the rest of the nation the need COVID-19 pandemic and an economic shutdown. [...] In FY2020, the Fahe with the brutal reminders of the systemic inequality faced efforts to connect our Members and partners to capital least opportunity and investment have been hit the hardest. [...] • Changing the Narrative Vision and Courage Increasing our Strength in Numbers Our vision is to end persistent poverty in Appalachia and to do so during the next 40 years, a generation of work. [...] We, the Fahe Network, are Increasing Investment Our vision is to end on the ground in some of the most challenging parts of our country where people are convinced the nation has persistent poverty in left them behind.