The Institute's continued success comes from the generous support of donors and collaborators across the region and the country who are interested in promoting the "message of hope, a promise that there can be a better way" encouraged by the Appalachian bishops in This Land Is Home to Me.

• The Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus
• The Jesuit Conference
• The Wheeling Jesuit University Jesuit Community
• The Congregation of St. Joseph
• The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• The Ford Foundation
• The West Virginia Humanities Council
• AmeriCorps*VISTA
• Campus Ministry
• and generous individual donors