Press coverage of our Learning Center Ribbon Cutting: https://www.wboy.com/top-stories/randolph-county-citizens-gain-new-educational-center/
News coverage of Virtual Ribbon Cutting

Press coverage of our Learning Center Ribbon Cutting: https://www.wboy.com/top-stories/randolph-county-citizens-gain-new-educational-center/
If you missed our Facebook Live, here is a video of our virtual ribbon cutting this morning.
Join us as we host a Virtual Ribbon Cutting of our Learning Center in Downtown Elkins. Learn More about the classes to be held at our Center.
RCHA’s own Josh Wanstreet (Healthy Home Community Health Worker) accompanying Ben Townsend for a live stream concert! Enjoy!
The Emerging Leaders Initiative is an executive-level series intended to accelerate the growth of high-potential small businesses in America’s underserved cities. Developed by the SBA and drawing on the experiences of advisors and business leaders in urban communities across the country, this comprehensive curriculum provides the tools to assist business owners with catapulting their company to the next level and to help them to emerge as a force in their community.
The Emerging Leaders Virtual Program equips key decision makers with knowledge, tools, and networking connections to help to advance their business. Participants will leave with a better understanding of their business capacity through an individualized three-year growth plan.
This training is for established business owners and is not for start-ups or people who are thinking about starting a business. The Emerging Leaders Initiative is an advanced training series open to small business owners and executives that:
If interested, participants should complete the online application by the deadline of Thursday, February 25, 2021 at https://www.interise.org/sbaemergingleaders and select Fairmont, WV under the Program Location pull-down menu.
Click here for additional information.
Businesses interested in SBA’s Emerging Leaders Program are invited to learn more by contacting Melissa Loder, program manager, at [email protected] or at (304) 623-7448.
Check out the latest news and services from our Healthy Home department in the FEBRUARY 2021 Newsletter.
The waiting list for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program for rental assistance will open on Monday, February 8, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. Procedures have changed due to COVID19. There will be no walk-in applications taken. Here is how you get started:
Click this link to complete the pre-application. After the pre-application is submitted, you will be sent an application to complete and return.
Applications must be returned to our office drop box at 2280 Randolph Avenue Elkins, WV or by mail, received by the due date on the application.
Faxed and email copies of the application will not be accepted– we must have the original. If the application is incomplete or not legible, applicants will not be placed on the waiting list.
If you have questions, please call 304-636-6495 x.10 or TDD 304-637-7604.
Our own Executive Director, Karen Jacobson was interviewed as well as some of our funders for this NYT article. Click on this link to read the entire article.
Check out this article recently published about the YouthBuild-Loren Fortney Memorial Fund.