Friday, July 11th at 11 am ET via Zoom - Grab your coffee and join us over the next four months to build virtual networking and other technology skills during our community conversations meetings, the first Friday of every month. July’s event will be the second Friday and will focus on coalition-building in the virtual space - utilizing tools such as YAMM, spreadsheets, etc.
Tuesday, July 15 at Noon ET - Navigator Research will join to discuss their polling on medicaid and tax cuts and how to message most effectively on these issues.
July 16, 2025 at 9 AM - Organizations and experts will convene at the Energy Innovation Center in Pittsburgh to get technical assistance support from RISE PA for their grant applications.
July 17th – 12 pm ET via Zoom – Join the Central Appalachian Network and ReImagine Appalachia for the third webinar in a series exploring disaster resiliency in Appalachia. Appalachia’s landscape, including our steep slopes and history of industrial activities, have made our communities uniquely vulnerable to flooding. Restoring and protecting the landscape, including via investments in nature-based solutions, are needed to better protect Appalachian communities. This webinar will explore the problems that need to be addressed as well as potential solutions and feature communities who have begun to implement these ideas at the local level.
Join us Thursday, July 31, 2025 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET - to learn about new research into how Appalachia could become a leader in the domestic manufacturing of much-needed wind energy parts.
Friday, August 1st at 11 am ET via Zoom - Grab your coffee and join us over the nextfour months to build virtual networking and other technology skills during our community conversations meetings, the first Friday of every month. August’s event will focus on sign-on letter engagement - how to do a sign-on letter, why they are important, and who you should be engaging with.
Thursday, August 7, 2025 at 11 am ET via Zoom - Learn how to leverage the Rise PA, and EPA Climate Pollution Reduction grants to catalyze the transition to cleaner industries!
August 19th at 1 pm ET - Join the Central Appalachian Network and ReImagine Appalachia for the fourth webinar in a series exploring disaster resiliency in Appalachia. Local governments are intended to be the first responders when disasters strike, however, many small towns in Appalachia do not have the funding or staff to adequately respond to flooding. Access to federal funds for disaster prevention, response and recovery requires local resources — both human and financial. This webinar will explore several federal disaster relief programs, how communities have engaged with them, and what’s next for these programs in the region.
September 16 at 1 pm ET via Zoom - Join the Central Appalachian Network and ReImagine Appalachia for the fifth webinar in a series exploring disaster resiliency in Appalachia. When disaster strikes, we come together and help each other. What lessons have we learned from recent disasters? What systems do we want to have in place so our communities are better prepared for the next storm we need to weather together?
October 14th at 1 pm ET via Zoom – Join the Central Appalachian Network and ReImagine Appalachia for the sixth webinar in our series exploring disaster resiliency in Appalachia. This webinar will discuss the need for collecting the stories of the impacts of disaster in our region, the solutions we want to see, and the power of our communities to respond and recover.
Thursday, October 16 at 11 am -3 pm ET via Zoom – The culmination of our manufacturing summer series, the Appalachian Manufacturing Action Plan Summit will be a chance to discuss the future of manufacturing in our region and the path to get there. The three hour event will include a variety of sessions to choose from on a range of topics and a larger conversation based around the creation of ReImagine Appalachia’s new Manufacturing Action Plan.
