The Invest Appalachia Fund is a $35 Million impact investment fund providing patient, flexible, and often subordinated loan capital to underserved communities. This Fund is a good fit for projects and businesses with major investment needs that have significant repayment potential. Financing from the IA Fund is often blended with investment from other financial intermediaries, as well as credit enhancements from the Catalytic Capital Fund. IA’s Investment Management Team serves as the investment manager for the IA Fund.
The Catalytic Capital Fund is a pool of philanthropic dollars that are used to provide a mix of hyper-flexible investment tools including targeted technical assistance, credit enhancements, conditional repayment loans, and other tools that accelerate investment-readiness, offset risk, and leverage repayable investment into equitable and innovative community projects. Catalytic Capital is just not another source of grant funding – it targets projects where it can unlock significant repayable investment opportunities.
Invest Appalachia’s Capital Stewardship program serves as fund manager for mission-aligned capital working across our footprint — providing the regional knowledge, relationships, and accountability structures that outside funders can’t replicate and local organizations shouldn’t have to build alone.
We know this landscape. We know who’s doing the work, what the deals actually require, and how to structure capital so it serves the community rather than the other way around.
Invest Appalachia’s staff and operations have been directly impacted by Hurricane Helene’s devastation. Thanks for your understanding with any delays in normal communications.
We are headquartered in Western NC, and involved in local recovery efforts as well as investment strategies to rebuild for long-term resilience and equity. Any financial contributions to Invest Appalachia will go directly to recovery and rebuilding efforts in impacted communities.