Advocates for Appalachia

06/05/2026

Help sponsor our local talent and enjoy a VIP table for our show. 🌈✨

If anyone would like to sponsor one of our local performers please DM Advocates for Appalachia or Preston Anderson.
We greatly appreciate everyone’s support. 🏳️‍🌈✨

06/01/2026

Happy Pride, Y’all!
From Advocates for Appalachia.

A graphic with a rainbow background and white font that says Happy Pride, Y’all!
From Advocates for Appalachia. A simple dark grey drawing of a cabin in a mountainous ecosystem is in the background. Animated sparkle stars stream down the front of the graphic.

05/29/2026

Several of our members will be attending this event Monday.

Everyone who can be there should be there!

05/29/2026

We are teaming up with Rush Kentucky Wildflower Festival for our community clean up this month by helping clean their creek before the big event.
It will be June 2nd at the Wildflower Festival venue from 9-11 am.

Please plan to join us and let us know if you need help prepping for an event!

Text in graphic: advocates for Appalachia community creek clean up, 6/2/26, 9 - 11 am, wildflower festival venue, 17000 st rt 854 Rush, KY 41168.

Description of graphic: a hot pink background that is lighter in the middle. Vivid and bright cartoon images of trash and hands holding pieces of trash surround the text in the middle.

05/29/2026

Next Friday!

Sistah LaLa will be a headlining act at Wildflower Festival this year and will be performing a special show at the Highland DO!zeum in Ashland, Kentucky, Friday June 5th from 5 to 7 pm.

Please visit her website which is linked below the hashtags and plan to join us for a magical evening of community, culture, and creativity.

“Wildflowers don’t care where they grow.” Dr. Dolly Parton.

Text in graphic: Wildflower Festival Special Musical Event Featuring Sistah LaLa, Highlands DO!zeum, June 5, 2026, 5:00 - 7:00 pm. La'Shelle Allen, Contralto, is a native of Baltimore, Maryland where she began her musical journey at the Baltimore School for the Arts. Ms. Allen is [also] a talented Producer, Recording/Voice-Over, and Teaching Artist. Her recently released solo album, Journey To Freedom, showcases original music and arrangements centering the American
Negro Spiritual. Ms. Allen is also the creator of Spirituals In Motion, an outreach program designed to further the conversation around diversity in music and the contribution of underrepresented voices. Free Event, Light Refreshments, Mystical Mycelium Art Exhibit on display June 3 - 5 at Highlands DO!zeum. Sponsored by Highlands DO!zeum, Advocates for Appalachia, & Rush Kentucky Wildflower Festival. 1620 Wi******er Ave, Ashland, Ky 41101.

Graphic description: A purple box with black font takes up most of the graphic. The box is surrounded by vibrant colors and spiraling mycelial networks The background behind at the top of the graphic is an orange sun with broad yellow and purple rays. A beautiful headshot of Sistah LaLa is in in the middle and a bit on the left of the graphic. The logos for Advocates for Appalachia and DO!zeum are at the bottom of the graphic.

Picture description: A gorgeous headshot of Sistah LaLa, a breathtakingly beautiful Black woman sporting her curly natural hair, spectacular silver hoop earrings, and a black top.






https://sistahlala.com

Sistah LaLa
Highlands DOzeum

05/29/2026

If anyone would like to sponsor one of our local performers please DM Advocates for Appalachia or Preston Anderson.
We greatly appreciate everyone’s support. 🏳️‍🌈✨

05/28/2026

Join us for a night of celebration in honor of PRIDE Month! 🏳️‍🌈
Wear your best look, bring your friends, enjoy our show, and possibly win a prize! Follow Advocates for Appalachia for more and help us build a stronger community together.

05/27/2026

Our neighbors need our help.

Who can donate/adopt/volunteer?

🐾❗️🐾 ❗️PLEASE READ 🐾❗️🐾❗️

Good morning friends.
This post is coming with heavy hearts concerned about our current situation with the rescue.

We have over 100 animals in our care and have had minimal interests in our amazing animals, minimal monetary donations, along with bills that are accumulating. We know we are not alone in this struggle. Rescues everywhere are closing doors and adoptions are at standstills. We are extremely worried.

Roland (pictured) is just one of many needing you to continue your support. Our monthly expenditures vary at around $14,000. This includes:
✅ mortgage
✅ insurance (liability, building, van)
✅ van maintenance & gasoline
✅ utilities- water, sewer, dumpster, internet, gas, electric
✅ vaccines, wormer, flea and tick preventative
✅ supplies if not donated

❌ This does NOT include vetting: spays, neuters, rabies, 4DX, URI’s, injuries, surgeries, Heartworm treatment, etc.

❌ We do NOT get funding from the state or other sources besides: donations, fundraisers or grants when available (very competitive), due to being a registered 501c3 charity.
We work ENDLESSLY trying to raise funds and are honestly exhausted at the hard facts that face us.

❣️ We need volunteers!
❣️ We need people sharing every single post!
❣️We need comments under posts to help with the algorithms!
❣️We need people attending our events, if even just to offer moral support!
❣️WE NEED ALL OF YOU!

Ways to make monetary donations:

🐾 Paypal link below ⬇️

PayPal.me/aarfky

🐾 VENMO :

🐾 Cash App: $aarfky

🐾 Mail checks to:
AARF
12365 Kevin Ave.
Ashland, KY 41102

We are so beyond grateful for the recent outpour of support of supply donations and messages wanting to help. We need a significant boost currently from everyone to help us continue our mission. It’s difficult to “imagine” alternatives that we could possibly face. 😪
Thank you, as always. ❤️🙏