Program areas at RC&D
Appalachia CARES - This AmeriCorps program places its members into community based organizations to get students and others engaged in community service. The Appalachia CARES members provide this serviced-based learning in Tennessee counties.
Clinch Powell Watershed Alliance is a partnership between Clinch- Powell RC&D and The Nature Conservancy to protect the Clinch and Powell rivers from non-point pollution. The Clinch-Powell Watershed Alliance staff provides technical assistance for landowners to install Best Management Practices, which are designed to increase farming productivity while minimizing agricultureal impacts on rivers and streams.
Community Development - Provides homeownership education and housing counseling, assistance for new homeowners, coaching assistance/connection to income supports, workforce development, financial literacy and assisting those affected by COVID and others in need with housing and related costs.
Small Business Development - This council works to improve the economic vitality of the region by providing accounting, counseling and assistance in small business development as well as small business loans. In addition to expenses, $36,320 in loans were made.
Clinch-Powell Home Team program provides a repair program and constructs affordable housing for low to moderate qualifying homeowners and assists with upfront homeownership costs, matches homeowners with best financing available and assists existing homeowners with renovation and repairs for safe, sanitary housing. We are also providing rental homes available for those not yet ready for home ownership. Additionally we carry low to zero percent loans for these participants, these costs are assets and not represented as current year expenses. We also broker mortgage loans for one of our housing partners.
Promotion of local artists and business - The Appalachian quilt trail is a community economic development program reates a heritage tourism attraction by painting and installing wooden quilt block patterns on barns and buildings to be viewed as part of a driving/riding trail throughout the Appalachian region. This project also serves to bring tourist to the area to purchase local crafts and goods expanding existing local businesses and stimulating the local economy.
Fire protection - Assistance provided to local fire departments.
Riverplace on the Clinch is a model sustainable economic development initiative demonstrating that you can create jobs and healthy business without hurting the environment and destroying the heritage and culture of a community. Riverplace includeds a 20-acre Eco-Tourism development on the Clinch River in the remote and poverty ridden community of Kyles Ford, TN in Hancock County.
Preservation of historic property - Provides protection and maintenance of the Rutledge Presbyterian Church, cemetery and grounds which is listed on the National Register of Historic Properties. The building is no longer used as an operating church.