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Resources: Non-Profit Groups
Here are the professionals who have been helping to build power in West Virginia. These organizations can offer advice, experience, trainings, materials, and other contacts to support your efforts in making change.
Coalition Groups:
Sludge Safety Project and EPA CARE
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC)
With coalfield organizers based in Boone, Mingo, and Cabell Counties.
Phone: 304-522-0246
Internet: www.ohvec.org
Address: PO Box 6753 Huntington, WV 25773-6753
Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW)
Phone: 304-854-2182
Internet: www.crmw.net
Address: Whitesville, WV
Wheeling Jesuit University, Biology Department
Aquatic Biologist, Dr. Ben Stout
Phone: 304-243-2316
Email: bens@wju.edu
West Virginia Future
Phone: 304-475-2529
Internet: www.WestVirginiaFuture.org
Address: Mingo County, WV
Ally Groups in West Virginia
Christians for the Mountains
Phone: 304-799-4137
Internet: www.ChristiansForTheMountains.org
Address: Rt. 1 Box 119-B Dunmore, West Virginia 24934
Sierra Club Environmental Justice Program
Phone: 304-342-3182
Email: bill.price@sierraclub.org
Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment
Phone: 304.645.9006
Internet: www.Appalachian-Center.org
Address: P.O. Box 507 Lewisburg, WV 24901
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
Mining Committee Chair, Cindy Rank
Phone: (304)924-5802
Email: clrank@hughes.net
Regional, and National Ally Groups
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Phone: 703-237-2249
Internet: www.chej.org
Address: PO Box 6806 Falls Church, VA 22040-6806
Appalachian Voices:
Great at making maps, general support, and national policy change
Phone: 828-262-1500
Internet: www.AppVoices.org and
www.iLoveMountains.org
Address: 191 Howard St., Boone, NC 28607
Student Environmental Action Coalition
Phone: 304-414-0143
Internet: www.seac.org
Address: 2206 Washington St. East, Charleston, WV 25311
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC)
Phone: 606-878-2161
Internet: www.kftc.org
Address: PO Box 1450 London, KY 40743
Appalachian Citizens' Law Center
Phone: 606-633-3929
Internet: www.AppalachianLawCenter.org
Address: 52 Broadway, Suite B, Whitesburg, KY 41858
Center for Community Change
Phone: 202-339-9300
Internet: www.communitychange.org
Address: 1536 U Street NW Washington, DC 20009
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