Appalachian Power offers enhanced payment options to customers. Click here to learn more.

Assurance Wireless is offering free cell phones and wireless service to low income residents in Virginia. Click here to see if you are eligible or to learn more.

Click here for Resources for Rural Families Coping with Economic Stress and Anxiety published by the Virginia Cooperative Extension (pdf).

Click here for holiday spending tips, maximizing tax time via Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and free tax preparation from the Virginia Individual Development Accounts (VIDA) Program (pdf).

Click here for HOPE's most recent audited financial statements for years ending June 30, 2009 and 2008 (pdf).

President Obama extends and expands the homebuyers tax credit. Click here to learn more.

HOPE's partner, the Federation for Appalachian Housing Enterprises, Inc. (FAHE), receives Wachovia NEXT Award for Opportunity Finance. Click here to watch the FAHE awardee video featuring a clip from HOPE's Executive Director, Andy Kegley, and Deerfield resident, Joe Semones. (Under 2009 Videos.)

With the recession and economic re-set underway, the Commonwealth of Virginia convened an online poverty summit on July 18. Click here to see the presentations and to make your own suggestions to the Governor’s Task Force.

Click here to learn how HOPE's I'M HOME partner, Frontier Housing, plans to replace pre-1976 mobile homes with new energy efficient manufactured homes through pending legislation that would offer $7,500 rebates to purchasers (pdf).

Local photographer and friend of HOPE, Susi Lawson, contributed award winning photos to the Virginia Poverty Law Center’s project, "Through Different Eyes: The Faces of Poverty in Virginia." Copies of the book are available for sale at the HOPE office or click here to order online from the Virginia Poverty Law Center.

HOPE Newsletter, Summer 2008 (pdf)

HOPE Newsletter, Spring 2008 (pdf)

HOPE Newsletter and Annual Reports, Winter 2007 (pdf)

Advocates seek more resources for mentally ill homeless, Wytheville Enterprise, February 12, 2010 (pdf)

The stress of keeping a roof overhead, Wytheville Enterprise, January 29, 2010 (pdf)

Ex-offenders face fear of having no where to go, Wytheville Enterprise, January 26, 2010 (pdf)

Mission:  Count region's homeless population, Wytheville Enterprise, January 22, 2010 (pdf)

Grant funding to help with housing, Wytheville Enterprise, September 12, 2009 (pdf)

First-time homeowners settle in, The Gazette, July 6-7, 2009 (pdf)

Budgeting HOPE Available, Wytheville Enterprise, January 27, 2009 (pdf)

Information Consolidation, Wytheville Enterprise, May 30, 2008 (pdf)

Morini "Pedals" Cycling in Schools, Wytheville Enterprise, February 20, 2008 (pdf)

HOPE Programs and Services (pdf)

HOPE Community Information System (HCIS) Information Sheet (pdf)

Homeownership Program-A Different Approach to Home Mortgages (pdf)

Fair Housing Resource Guide (pdf)

Deerfield Update, December 2007 (pdf)