The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Thursday awarded grants totaling $2.8 million to 59 local governments and selected 75 nonprofits, including one in Clarkesville, for “no-cost capacity building training.”
The funding and training are made possible through READY Local Governments and READY Nonprofits, two tailored tracks under ARC’s capacity-building initiative, READY Appalachia. All READY programming is designed to help Appalachians build individual, organizational and community capacity to envision and enact positive economic change.
The READY Local Governments grants will help 59 local governments to implement to better address their communities’ economic development needs.
The training offered through READY Nonprofits will help 75 nonprofit organizations, such as Clarkesville-based Friends of Northeast Georgia, to better fulfill their missions and strengthen services to help Appalachian economies thrive. Participants will train for seven weeks on one of eight course options: board development, financial management, fundraising, human capital, marketing and communications, programs and operations, grant writing and management, and strategic planning.
To learn more about READY Appalachia, visit https://www.arc.gov/ready/
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