FIGHTING FOR OUR FUTURE

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Appalachian Voices fights every day for a healthy environment, sustainable commu-nities, and just economies that value our region’s natural heritage. Throughout 2017, and in the face of new and enduring threats, we honored our commitment to the Central and Southern Appalachian region by seizing opportunities locally, at the state level, and in Washington, D.C., to advance our mission.

Together with our members, we’ve come too far to stand by as profit-driven, polluting industries and shortsighted policies put vulnerable communities, the climate, and the natural resources we all rely on at even greater risk. We refuse to waver from the pursuit of our positive vision.

Skills Appalachian Voices has developed over our 20-year history—from grassroots or-ganizing to our advocacy on complex policy and regulatory issues—have prepared us for the many challenges we face today. Most importantly, the trust we’ve earned in the communities where we work has helped us build a reputation that reflects our love for Appalachia’s past, present, and future.

Over the past year, our staff worked alongside impacted community members fighting mountaintop removal coal mines, toxic coal ash pollution, and fracked natural gas pipelines, and together we put pressure on regulators and elected officials tasked with protecting our health and environment. Through our innovative New Economy and Energy Savings for Appalachia programs, we also demonstrated that energy and eco-nomic solutions to many problems plaguing our region are within reach.

Let’s be clear: the Trump administration’s destructive, fossil-fueled agenda and its ill-fated attempts to prop up the coal industry jeopardize the future we envision. But it’s becoming increasingly evident that the president’s promises were hollow from the very beginning.

Your support has helped Appalachian Voices become the force for change that we are today, and it will no doubt bolster our mission in the years ahead. We’re ready to defend our region against industries built on exploitation while advancing a more positive vision of shared prosperity.

Together, we will fight for our future.

A Watershed

Year and the Road

Ahead

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Tom CormonsExecutive Director

Kate BoyleDeputy Executive Director

Faced with the growing threats that fracking and gas infrastructure pose to our region, Appalachian Voices, along with countless citizens and local allies, has fought the Mountain Valley and Atlan-tic Coast pipelines at every phase of the state and federal permitting process. We’ve built grassroots power in communities along the pipeline routes and amplified the voices of landowners fighting the use of eminent domain by pipeline developers such as Dominion Energy for private gain. When regulators failed to evaluate the risks, we built a solid scientific record, and we are now establishing citizen monitoring efforts to defend our commu-nities from the inevitable harm the pipelines—if built—will cause.

Across our region, powerful industries are using their political clout to keep a stranglehold on our energy policies. Electric utilities and fossil fuel companies are attempting to build dangerous pipelines through our forests and farmland, burden families with rising costs, and restrict access to customer-owned clean energy. But these desperate efforts to hang onto yesterday’s business model are being met with widespread resistance that’s giving communities on the front lines an even more powerful voice.

Fighting Fracked

Gas Pipelines

Advancing Energy Democracy in Rural Places

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At a press conference in Richmond, Va., Appalachian Voices Virginia Field Coordinator Lara Mack calls on Gov. Ralph Northam to protect Virginia’s waters from the proposed pipelines.

As technological and market forces disrupt the electric sector, monopoly utilities are attempting to rebrand as leaders of the clean energy revolution and rig the system to ensure their business model remains intact. This trend spells disaster for families who struggle to pay their bills while utilities rake in billions and routinely raise rates. Appalachian Voices is responding to this pivotal moment, educating policymakers about the energy burden placed on rural communities when profit-driven companies get their wish list. Over the past year, we’ve opposed harmful rate reforms backed by Dominion, Duke Energy, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. At the same time, we’re leading a movement to make rural electric cooperatives in our region more democratic and responsive to their members.

In partnership with local stakeholders, Appalachian Voices is generating demand for solar energy and recognition of the role it can play as a cornerstone in the coalfields’ economic transition. Last year, we released a technical roadmap showcasing solar’s potential to increase local prosperity and generate millions of dollars in wages and energy savings—building local wealth that would remain local. To help the industry take root, the roadmap recommends state-level policy reforms, including expanding third-party ownership of solar projects and remedying outdated rules that put com-munities at a disadvantage. We’re now partnering with community leaders to jump-start the local solar industry by developing sites profiled in the roadmap.

Developing Solar in

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Advocating for the Energy Consumer

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Appalachian Voices New Economy Program Manager Adam Wells presents Eastside High School students with a check for their winning entry to the “Solar In Your School” competition at the 2017 Southwest Virginia Solar Fair.

Decades of resource extraction have scarred the Appalachian landscape, and communities across our region continue to suffer the consequences of an overreliance on burning coal for electricity. Now, as coal declines, the enormous costs to reclaim the land and clean up the toxic waste it has left behind are becoming clear. The White House may want to take us backward, but coal-impacted communities are looking ahead and asking for help to address the threats in their backyards.

Combating a Toxic Legacy

Restoring Post-Mine

Lands

Appalachian Voices is working locally and in Washington, D.C., to build the movement for a land restoration economy in Central Appalachia. Last summer, our efforts on Capitol Hill helped lead a U.S. House of Representatives committee to pass the RECLAIM Act, a bipartisan bill that would direct $1 billion to support ecological restoration and economic rejuvenation in commu-nities where new investments are most needed. As we called on Congress to pass the RECLAIM Act, Appalachian Voices also helped to expand a pilot program modeled after the bill, securing $10 mil-lion for innovative mine land reclamation projects in Southwest Virginia.

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Appalachian Voices Senior Legislative Representative Thom Kay testifies before Congress about the reclamation of abandoned mine lands.

Protecting Our Mountains

Our work to fight mountaintop removal coal mining has been concentrated at the communi-ty level as the White House and Congress block paths to create positive change. Throughout 2017, we raised awareness, generated public comments, and drove turnout to hearings related to mine permits in Virginia, Tennessee, and West Virginia. We secured court victories affirming the rights of citizens and groups like Appalachian Voices to actively police our waterways, and we trained citizens to monitor mining near their communi-ties and submit complaints to state agencies. We have been a constant critical voice, calling out the Trump administration’s giveaways to its friends in the coal industry.

Cleaning Up Coal Ash

Appalachian Voices is keeping up a fight for clean water and environmental justice that began years before a massive coal ash spill drew national attention to North Carolina’s Dan River. In 2017, we continued to support a coalition of citizens who live near some of the state’s largest coal plants and implored Gov. Roy Cooper, state lawmakers, and regulators to act. Our partnerships with community members allowed us to defeat an attempt by policymakers to roll back a state law that requires Duke Energy to recycle coal ash. And, even as we built productive relationships with North Carolina’s environmental and public health officials, we drew attention in state news-papers and national magazines to the state’s counterproductive deference to Duke.

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“It is time for our state’s elected leaders and public servants to tell Duke once and for all to clean out all its leaky coal ash basins. It is time to tell Duke and its pipeline partners that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is much too great a risk to our waters, health, and the future of North Carolina.”—Amy Adams, Appalachian Voices N.C. Program Manager, in the News & Observer

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Financials

2017 Donors$20,000+Anonymous DonorAnonymous

FoundationAnonymous

FoundationAnonymous

FoundationCREDOThe Educational

Foundation of America

March Conservation Fund

Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation

Merck Family FundMertz Gilmore

FoundationNew York

Community TrustRockefeller Family

FundWallace Genetic

FoundationGreyson and Ariana

WilliamsWinslow FoundationJeff and Connie

WoodmanZ. Smith Reynolds

Foundation

$10,000 - $19,999Bama Works Fund of

the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation

Clara BinghamAugusta Ingram

Charitable TrustDavis/Dauray Family

FundJanice DuganPatagoniaPaul O. Davis Fund

of the San Francisco Foundation

$5,000 - $9,999Joan BinghamMichael and Ellen

GeismarJan HalleJust Transition FundMiller Wehrle Family

FoundationPolis-Schutz Family

FoundationRimora Foundation

$2,500 - $4,999Rebecca DameronMadwoman

Project of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation

Morningstar Foundation

Sigora Solar

Donald Tyson and Katherine Sparrow

Julie WaltersHarriet Warner

$1,000 - $2,499Gardner Bloemers

and Nicholas DukeJan BlomstrannBlue Cow ArtsDavid BrendleCaplin FoundationBrian Carlton and

Elizabeth SumpterJohn Conover and

Virginia DaughertyShannon DowneyEnterprise Holdings

FoundationThomas Jones and

Diana Foster-JonesZach GalifianakisKim GilliamElizabeth HahnSally HooverJoe and Elvira

HoskinsGregory Hunnicutt

and Nancy Smith-Hunnicutt

Francine JohnstonSusan and Michael

KruseThe Longleaf

FoundationMast General StoreEleanor MillerGary Nissenbaum

Kristin and Bob Peckman

Jennifer and Michael Potter

Susan RossSchwab CharitableChristopher ScottonMichael Shnayerson

and Gayfryd Steinberg

Rae Lee SiporinBunk and Nancy

SpannJohn WilsonWorrell Chapman

Family Fund in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation

Royce Zia

$500 - $999Phillip Krohn and

Monica BondJill and Amanda

BakerHeidi Binko and

Chris TuttleKaren BoyleChip Brown and Rob

AlexanderSusan and John

BurnettDeborah Cowan and

Bruce Del GarbinoJoanna Mintzer and

Donald FerrellDimitri Glazkov

Rachel GoldsteinWilliam GrantDot GriffithJeffery GumpMary Anne and Than

HittPat and Jill HolmesCharlie MacMillanClarence and Judy

ManningKen and Tracey

MaxwellDonovan McLaurinJay and Jennifer MillsSherrill MillsMountain KhakisRalph Burnham

Charitable Lead Trust

Scottie PatePatrick and Sue

PeasonRick PhelpsCarol PrunerQuantitative

Investment Management Fund

Alyson ReevesDarlene RoquemoreKathy SelvageBrenda SigmonJohn SnyderVanguard Charitable

Endowment Program

Jane Young

$250 - $499Appalachian

Mountain BreweryNancy AycockMalcolm and Pamela

BaldwinJames BartonMargaret BorgensStarling ChildsDonald Clelland and

Wilma DunawayNaomi CohenPaulette and James

CopenheaverRobbie CoxPosie and David

DauphineJack DittyLouis EubanksDavid FarrenEvelyn GoldstonTed and Billie

GoodmanJames and MaryAnn

GregoryJason GreshEdi Guyton and Narl

DavidsonLucinda HastingsJohn Harry Brewer

Irrevocable TrustEllen JohnsonAnn Jones-WeinstockKarin KingsleyTom Klatka and Ferri

LockhartTim LawsonWilliam Limpert

PROGRAMMATICFUNDRAISING

ADMINISTRATIVE

Programmatic: $1,953,988.16 87%

Fundraising: $160,371.74 7%

Administrative: $123,416.49 6%

Total: $2,237,776.39

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2017 Donors$250 - $499 (cont.)Ferris LyleCat McCueKincaid and Allison

MillsGed Moody and

Debbie TallaricoKevin and Sandy

MooreDanielle MorseHeike MuellerJeffrey PaineMartha ParadeisDeward PendleburyAlan Purintun and

Jane O’MearaRandell SalzmanBill and Potter SewellSusan SterngoldNancy StewartJames and Joan

SundstromMarie Terlizzi and

Robert DobbsHenri and Elaine

WeemsSusan WeltzThomas WoltzRenee WoodPeter WoodEric Zdilla

$100 - $249Jennifer AbelChris AlmeriniMartha AndersonShannon AndrewsWilliam AndrewsEleanor AnsbackMonica ApplebyJoann and Martin

AurandAndy and Mara

AustinSonny and Barbara

AycockEdward and Karen

BainSandra BaselStephen and Mary

Ann BatscheNorm and Sara BellThomas Benevento

and Margot ZahnerElizabeth BernatowiczDianne BlaneChristopher

BoardmanJohn BoltonLorie BonhamBrian BowenSarah Bowling

Shay BoydDan and Kate BoylePeter Brisbane and

Diane AdkinsJudi BrownChrista BrusenGraham BullockGordon BurghardtSusan CableSarah CaldwellPeggy and Kenneth

CalestroGeorge CaplanJerry CarsonDon Chance and

Linda AndersonAlexandra CheffPatricia CiaffoneKristin ClarensKaren ClarkeGrace and Matthew

CormonsDavid and Janet CraftSusan CrawfordBob Crawford and

Betty BurkeApril and Jeff CroweGrace CurryCarolyn DallaraDonna DarnallJimmy Davidson and

Amy GallowayJeffrey Deal and Jamie

GoodmanJim DemingRobert DennistonDixie DickinsonPaula DinnersteinTess DrzymalaNicholas R. Duke, Sr.Delwyn DyerPhilip EggersNicole EmmonsMargaret EppigLeslie and Ellis EvansShauna and Thomas

FarmerSteve FarrellDeborah and Karl

FieldsLinda FoldaMary Emma FosterAmanda FrayerRobert Fudge and

Steven KretzmannDarrell and Sammie

GarnerSue GierKris GilbertMartha GirolamiTom Gogal

Carol and Derek Green

Daniel GumpCecil GurganusThomas HardyAlan HarmsKatie HarrisKen HassellCaroline HauboldWilliam B. HawkinsMatthew HawsJane HaydenWendy HayekEberhard and Jean

HeideHank HelmanMark HensonKatherine HesterSusan HeytlerMichael HillMicah HintonBecky Horton and

Craig HaggartJoe and Mary

HowardSarah HowardLinda HuntClyde and Eva IngleKenneth Jacker and

Terri DaleCaleb and Caroline

JaffeFrances JanniroAndrew JarrellM. Anne JenningsWilliam JohnsonRobert JurgensThom KayCharles KayMark KeefeRachel KeenDeborah KibbelJudy Hacker KirbyJon and Leigh

KirchnerRonald KiserPete KlostermanMary Ann KokengeRich KolehmainenEllen KoonceLudwig KuttnerCameron La FolletteCatherine LacienskiDave LandisSteve and Linda

LangstonKeith LeviMagdalene LilesNorman and Sonna

LoewenthalFrank LorchJoy Loving

Lori LudwigMatt LumadueMeghan Lundy-JonesMargareta LyerlyKevin LynchRichard and Carolyn

MarraAllison MartinCathy MartinMike McCoyJohn McGrannRory McIlmoilConnie and John

McLendonLou McMillionAnn Mercer and

Logan BlancoJulie Milligan-BarrMolly MooreMaureen MooreJoyce MooreTupper MoreheadChristine Morriss and

Jeffery WestMakanah and Robert

MorrissRuss and Jean MoxleyDean and Susan

NewcomerJoyce NewmanTerry NgJohn and Diane

NorfrayLonnie NunleyLarry OlsonShella PaskelLarry PendryJudith PhoenixMelissa PierceSharon PierceRon PolkRobert PorterThomas Prebble and

Claudie TrimarcoThomas and Sally

PriceMary Priest and Tom

MillerProper RestaurantRichard PuhalaGary PurgasonDavid and Leah

RampyStephanie and

Benjamin Randolph

Sally ReynoldsRichard RheingansSandra RodriguezMargaret RoothCarol Ross-BaumannKevin Routh

Stephen and Sharon Rowe

Herbert RubinCarolyn RudeRay RussellBilly Kennedy and

Rebecca SaundersErin Savage and Toby

MacDermottLillah SchwartzMichael SchwartzMolly ScottJudy and Bill ScurryMike SeagerMeredith SheltonTina ShepardsonCaryl Simon-KatlerDr. and Mrs. Mel

SkilesBrad SlocumDianna SmithC.D. SmithBarbara Ellen SmithValerie SmithKathy SohnMary SomervilleStephan SpauldingLucy SpencerAleen SteinbergJim SteitzJanet Stone-ErdmanMelissa TalbotEd TaubMontie and Jackie

TeskyDeborah ThomasChristopher TilleyErin TroddenCarrington TutwilerEmily UrbanekRuth VandersallPat VeaseyWake Forest Baptist

ChurchNicholas WaltherKent Walton and

Susan TyreeRichard WamplerBoyce WanamakerMatthew WassonJane WentworthJennifer WestermanKatherine WhaleyBarry WhittemoreElise WickhamHannah WiegardBrenda WillettDoug WilliamsSue WilliamsRoger WinsorWoody WoodruffThomas Worsham

Nicholas YoungJudy YoungEli Zigas and Savanna

Ferguson

Under $100Karen AdamsAmy AdamsGordon AdlerFrancis AguilarTerry AlexanderThomas AndersonPeter AndersonTeal AndersonJacqueline AndruskyMary AnglinMarie AntonucciGreg ApgarBill ArrantsMegan AthertonRobin and Allen

AustinMelissa and Tom

BahledaBill and Tucker BaileyMorris BaileySandra BaileyKaren BakerSusan BakerChris BallRuth BallardKirk BallinMark BandreTonia BanksMichael BaranskiMark and Cathy

BargerPaul Abbot and

Elaine BarkerJonathan BarrettJan BarshisMiranda BeahmPat BeaverGregory BachtelCarl BeckRobert and Celia

BeltonCharlene BennettLisa BerberetteBettina BergooAnne BernardEugenia BibbLouise BibbJim BierBeth BingmanPhilip BlevinsMark BlumFrank BodineCletus BohonWilliam BostLonnie BowlingLeslie Boyd

Under $100 (cont.)Carl BrackettDarla BrayHeidi BreedloveJessica BrightMike and Loretta

BrindockJohn BromerChristopher BrooksSkyler BrooksCarolyn BrothertonRose BrownRobin BrownJo BrownTeresa Brown and

Robert HunterBob BrownBridgett BruneaEmily BuehlerBill BunchTom and Catherine

ByersKenneth ByrdRenee ByrdDelores and Edmund

CameronLinda CampbellAnne CamperDavid CaricoLyn CarlisleBob and Linda

CarloughWilliam CarpenterJames CarpenterGlenn CarperRobert CarrBrian and Gen

CarsonRachel CarterCatherine CarterChris CaudillJan Chance-SampsonJames ChandlerKathy ChandlerBob Cherry and

Jamie LeighJohn ChristensonShay ClantonDon ClappTroy ClarkSusan ClarkKatie CobyLance and Crystal

ColeCatherine ColeKaren CollinsMolly CollinsHarlan CollinsBruce ComptonJim ConcannonDeirdre ConditJoe Cook

Maren CookeMichael CooperJoseph and Hazel

CopeTom CormonsCharles and Susan

CornChristina CowanBill CowdenSallie CoxMike CraigChris CramerJohn and Marcia

CrumrineThomas CrumrineKevin CrupiJames CullipherTierra CurryJudy CurryWilliam CurtisBecky DaissFrank DaltonMelanie DaltonOscar DannerLawrence DarbyPatti and Carey DavisAndree DavisJose De ArteagaJeffrey DeJoannisMerrill DeskinsSandra DiazWesley DickRic DintinoKevin DiPietroKenny DockerySister Mary Lou

DolanMarcia DollerschellPhyllis and Claus

DolphEdward DombroskiJackie DonaldsonDonna DouglasDeanna DoullKathleen DoyleBill DozierAnna DozierLucy DuffKevin DuncanMichael DunnPauline DunnClint DyeBette Dzamba and

David SellersCindy EdmondsNancy Edwards and

Robert RandallKathryn ElyCristof EnsslinSam ErbyGwendolyn EricksonLauren Essick

Jim and Patricia Essick

Aline EulerHersha EvansCora EvansLuAnn FaberDavid FairellHelena FangBrickland FaucetteRobert FerrariAdrienne FerrissPenny FilterMegan FinkMary Finley-BrookCara FioreSteve FisherLynn and Kevin

FlemingIgnacy FonbergNatalie ForemanLinda FosheeCharles FosterShannon

FratanduonoHugo FreundLouisa Fritz and

William ChellShirley FurstNicholas GabrielsenWynne GallahanPeter GalvinJosh GambrelMark GanchiffSara GannCheryl GarnantJen and Michael

GaronzikLydia HamessleyChristopher GatensSharon GatensPeter GatesJim GawlasDavid GayLen GecikAnnaliese GehresCynthia GelsthorpeMargarita GerharzLa Ra GibsonJames GiedemanKen and Lori GilcristFrank GlassCurtis and Alicia

GoodmanDiane GoodneyWilliam GoodsonKeith and Andree

GoolsbyKate McClory and

Bruce GouldNancy GreenCaroline GreenBruce Greene

M. Catharine Guicheney

Soren GurewitzKelly HaberCraig HaggertyJanet HagyThomas HainesGregory HairstonJason HalbertGwendolyn HallCara HallJon HalpernA. P. HanesDavid Hannah and

Laurie McDadeBetsy and E W

HardinJerry HardtDavid HardySusan HarrisJerome HarrisAliese HarrisonTerry and Kiku

HarveyJean HaskellMicky HatcherSusan HavensLinda HayersKatherine HayesW. Ronald HaynesSeth HealdSkip and Sue HeathCynthia HeenanJeff HeieJennifer HelmsDenise HendonDoug Hendren and

Nancy BeallRichard and Lucy

HenighanRobert HenleyMatthew Hepler

Scott Herman Giddens

Bob and Jeanette Hess

George HestonKatie HicksBen HillAndrew HillDavid and Judith

HintonHelmut HirschJohn HitchinsRosemary HoffmannAmy HoggWillis HoldenFrank HollemanBoyd and Jean

HollidayHoly Cross AbbyRobert HornBob HrozencikEric HuffmanJon HundleyBethany HurleyKirby HuttoCacapon InstituteSophia JacksonMark JacobsenEli JamisonMaria JangstenSinha JayasuriyaAlex JohnsonJudy Rhea JohnsonSteven JohnsonZach JohnsonJames JohnsonKit JohnstonPamela JohnstonVince JonesDavid JonesThomas JordanSuszanne KaiserBill Kappa

Lynn KaregeannesJim KaregeannesRae KasdanJoshua KeagleJosh KearnsWill KeenanGeorge KegleySandra KellyRobert KellyKathy KellyRoger and Julia KentMary KerleyMicheal KienbaumSusan KileyGene Kimball and

Kaitlin DinanConor KimballPatricia KirbyMabelle KirkBob KiskenPatricia KittoThomas Klages and

Catherine KrauseAndrea Klopp and

Peter HeusCraig KnisleyBrianna KnisleyPeggy KocorasLawrence KrantzBarbara KrumdieckJoshua KucharskiAlex KuhlAmy KurlandBeverly LaceyJohn LanceLinda LangmanCarol LangstaffHeather LantzNancy LaPlacaKathe LathamGerald LavoyDon LendleVesta Jean Lenhart

2017 Donors

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Under $100 (cont.)Nina LevisonBen LevisonDiana LevisonLandra LewisConni LewisAlbert and Signe

LewisLena LewisSusan LewisSharon LivengoodChristine LlewellynDiane LloydMarion LoperMichael LovenSuzanne LoweryMarsha V. LowryDavid LuceRosealie LynchFrances LynchMary LyonsEleanor MackenJeannie MacloedNancy MaddenBrian MaggiedKim MaguireIvy MainCharlene V. MakerMichele and Brad

MakruckiSteve MallardJane MallisonMelissa ManciniMegan ManskeLenny MarlowEric C MarshPete MarshallJane Martin and Alice

GoodmanSteve and Ruth

MartinJohn MartinkoskyLibra MaxAnnette MayerJoanne MaynardRoger and Karen

MaynardBabette McAuliffeBill McCabeClara McClureMarita McClymondsZane McDonaldJohn and Cindy

McDonaldLinda McKinnisAnn McStayAnne MegibowMark MerrimanRoland MicklemLouise and Mark

MilfordJosh Miller

Murphy MillerRex MillerHoward and Carolyn

MillerBarbara MillsEmily MoldowJerry MolesWilliam H. MollElizabeth and Thomas

MooneyThomas MooreSusan MooreWilliam MoorePatrick MoralesDavid and Karen

MouwRoger and Naomi

MurphyLaura MurraElizabeth and Jim

MurrayMary Michaela

MurrayTom MurrellLara NagleBarbara NajarianJames NeelMichael NelsonMark NelsonAdam NemettNew Community

ProjectAaron NewlanderChristopher NickellPeter NimkoffYoshiji NishimotoMandy NixAnastacia NuttHeather O’BrienSusan OakleyPeter OlsenMary OlsonOne World FilmsRandy and Patricia

OutlandWayne Owens and

Linda Boyer-OwensErik PalmaDoreen PapajcikKent PatrickLinda PattersonJanet PaulLarissa Paule-CarresKaren PaulsonElizabeth PayneAndrew PayneJohn PayneJoseph PayneMargaret PearsonGeorge Peery and

Mary StairJeff Pekrul

Chuck PembertonDanielle PerezJason PerryNatalie PienJames PittardGavin PlattRosina PohlmannRandi and Joel

PokladnikPatricia PolentzMarie and Herb

PomfreySteven PorterAlexey PostnikovCarol RallMark Read and Susan

HazlewoodJohn RedickMary ReedBetsy ReederHerbert G. ReidGay ReillyLouise and Edmund

ReissHelen RenqvistTom RhineCourtney RhodesLee RhodesPriscilla RichMichael RichardsKay RicheyMartin RickettsKevin RidderVelma RileyAxel RingeAileen RiveraDean Rivkin and

Brenda McGeeSherry RobertsonFlorence RobertsonJoseph RobinsonMichelle RobinsonPeter and Jane RodaLisa RodeheaverMichael RoehmDalton RogersVivi RogersOlga RonayLenora RoseJohn Rosine and

Claire CassidyDeanna RossDennis and Sarah

RossDavid and Karen

RustDonna SabinKriss and Joan SandsPaige SanfordJohn and Deborah

SantiniDonald Saunders

Mary ScanlonKathryn SchafferJudith SchlichtingRobert SchmittElvria SchraderDavid SchubertTom SchulerIris SchwintzerPeter and Celia ScottRebecca Scott and

Andy OrbanBeth ScottAlice ScrubyRobin Scully BoucherSteven SelbyGeorge SetzerBrian SewellMiriam SextonCatherine ShafferJohnnette ShaneBeth ShapiroW.F. Charles and

M.W. ShawDaniel SheddCharlotte ShnaiderCraig and Barbara

SiegelPatricia SimpsonJane SimpsonJessica SimsA. P. SkinnerRobert SmithKathleen and James

SmithPenny SmithRandy SmithHelen SmithMeri SmithRosalie SmithRonnie SmithKai SmithTerry and Harriet

SopherJennifer SosnowskiMargaret SparksLeuse SpencsPaul SperryCaroline and Paul

StahlschmidtMark StanfillCynthia StanleyTerry and Wilma

SteelDavid Stern and Janet

CawleyKathleen StevensCaleb StickneyJohn StockMelodee StokesVictoria StoneKenneth Strickland

William and Priscilla Suan

Carolyn SuffernKatrina SullivanRoy and Trudy SwanSue SweetingRobin TalbertFreddie TannerCheryl TannerMartha TaylorJohn TaylorJoanna TaylorBen TaylorSarah Taylor-LaineAnn ThomasGail ThomasLaura ThomasTeddy ThompsonRenee Thorsvold

DecolaTimothy L. WarnerElisabeth TobeyLaurel Toussaint and

Tom BikMichael TrimbleNora TroddenSteve TroyanovichPenny TruittMegan TurpieGary and Lynn

VagnetteDiane Van HeldenSuzanne Van LoonMontie Van NostrandSuzanne VanLoonBarbara VanScoyDavid VartBadrigianMaya VikniusGurio VincentiVirginia Tech

University LibrariesSanny ViserJames Von BramerJason Von KundraEdwin VoorheesRebecca WadleyMadeline WadleyJohn WagnerEllen WagnerJack WallJeri WallacePatty WallensMaureen Wallin and

Scott DamonRobert WaltersJanet and Gene WardJason WardElaine WardMeredith WarfieldRuth WarnerSusan Warner

Katheryn and Lucy Warren

Alex Wear and Sarah Stacy

Steven and Janet Weaver

Angela WeaverSophia WeaverJim WebbJames WedekindRandal and Patricia

WeiszAdam WellsEvan WhiteAdele and Jim

WhitenerSharon WhitmoreJerry WhittJohn WigginsT and D WilleyEm WilleyGraham WilliamsNancy Jo WillisJoanne WilseyJim and Margueritte

WilsonNancy WilsonElaine WineDoug and Carol

WingeierDarlene WolfNick WoodEllis WoodwardGracie WoodyMary Lon WrightRobin WrightsonMatthew WurstWendy WyelsDonna WysokenskiRoseAnn and John

YearickCharles YechLaura YordyNancy YorkGeorgeanne YoungPhilip YoungKatie YoungJeannie YountMichelle ZarembaRay Zimmerman

In Honor of:Kate and Dan BoyleSam and Caroline

Haubold Steven and Ruth

Martin Tim Lawson

In Memory of:Larry Gibson

2017 Donors

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Raising Our Voice

The Appalachian Voice is our free bimonthly newspaper that covers outdoor, environmental, and cultural news in Central and Southern Appalachia. With an estimated readership of 150,000 and a team of 180 dedicated volunteer distributors across the region, The Appalachian Voice allows us to share the beauty and value of our mountains and inform our audience about the environmental and energy issues that affect communities.

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