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Community Advisory Council

Hazard, Kentucky's downtown busy with cars and shops.
The Community Advisory Council (CAC) ensures that Invest Appalachia’s (IA) investment priorities, organizational practices, and catalytic capital deployments are in alignment with community needs and IA’s founding values. The CAC establishes our priorities for catalytic capital investments, informs impact evaluation practices, and helps shape project pipeline development. The CAC is a community feedback loop between IA staff and the communities in which we all live and work.
Annette Clapsaddle

Annette Clapsaddle

she/her

Author & Independent Consultant

Qualla Boundary/North Carolina

Yaselin Gonzales

Yaselin Gonzales

she/her

Small Business Lender

Mountain BizWorks

Asheville, NC

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