Click Here to Download the Application Grant Form.

Three copies of the grant proposal should be submitted to the Appalachian
Foundation for Learning at the address below.

Appalachian Foundation for Learning
P.O. Box 2127
Blowing Rock, NC 28605

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We have given our first grant to the Two Rivers Community School of Boone, NC. Foundation president T. Dwight McKinney presented the grant to Gary Childers, interim principal of the school at a ceremony held in February 2008.

Gary Childers, left; T. Dwight McKinney, right.

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From the High Country Press April 17, 2008 (Anna Oakes reporting)

April 17, 2008 issue

New Ed Foundation Awards Grant

The Appalachian Foundation For Learning is a newly formed 501-c3 volunteer non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to support educational efforts, public and private, in Avery, Ashe and Watauga counties. The foundation recently made an award of $500 to Mountain Alliance to support its Rolling Academy program. Pictured are Natalie Lewis, secretary of the foundation, Todd Nolt (center), executive director of Mountain Alliance, and Dwight McKinney, president of the foundation. For more info, click to www.appfound.org.