Invest Appalachia Catalytic Capital Fund, a fund

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Philanthropic 'Catalytic Capital' pool that de-risks community projects in Central Appalachia and prepares them for repayable investment. Tools include recoverable and conditional-repayment grants, predevelopment funding, unsecured bridge financing, loan guarantees and loan-loss reserves, equity-like and other credit enhancements, and technical-assistance grants, often paired with loans from the Invest Appalachia Fund. Awards range from under $10K to six figures. Priority impact areas: climate...

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States served: KY, NC, OH, TN, VA, WV
Geographic focus: Appalachian counties of Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia (Central Appalachia).
Status note: Evergreen philanthropic pool of about $8M; deployed roughly $2M across 24 projects in its first two rounds (Dec 2022, Oct 2023).
Structure: Evergreen fund
Capital raised: $8,000,000
Return profile: Concessionary / catalytic

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Offerings: Grant, Loan guarantee or collateral, Technical assistance, Other
Ownership models: Worker cooperative, Other cooperative
Employee-ownership focus: Partial

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