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- EIN 62-0646373
- (865) 933-3443
- 1959 Highlander Way New Market TN 37820-4939 USA
- www.highlandercenter.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Environment, Environmental Education
Mission: Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in appalachia and the south. We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny. Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we help create spaces -- at highlander and in local communities -- where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible. We develop leadership and help create and support strong, democratic organizations that work for justice, equality and sustainability in their own communities and that join with others to build broad movements for social, economic and restorative environmental change. We accomplish our purposes in a variety of ways. Residential workshops and educational training sessions at our center in new market, tennessee, bring together representatives of communities facing specific struggles throughout the region.
Programs: Appalachian transitionthe appalachian transition fellowship was created to help evaluate emerging community leaders, foster cross-sector partnersip, and accelerate the economic transition of central appalachia. The fellowship offers placements that give emerging leaders and host communities an opportunity to engage in community based projects, training, and mentoring that will advance economic and social change in the region.
community supportcommunity support includes our bookstore and library, fiscal sponsorships, annual events (homecoming and wacky work week), and calls to action that support community partners in the movement.
workshop centerthe workshop center is at the heart of highlander's work, since it is here that people gather from around the region, the nation, and the world to discuss and find collective solutions to the problems facing their communities. The center contains a large octagonal meeting room in which participants sit in a circle of rocking chairs (reinforcing our vision of equality and shared learning), as well as a kitchen, dining room, women's, men's and gender-neutral restrooms and showers, a childcare facility, ada compliant lodging, hiking trails and the most spectacular view of the great smokey mountains. Highlander hosts over 3000 community activists, college students and organizations fighting for justice.