Regions
Hundreds of counties.
One coalition.
Places the USDA has designated as persistently poor for more than thirty years.
Together for Hope works in hundreds of U.S. counties across 30 states, places the USDA has designated as persistently poor for more than thirty years. Roughly six million people call these counties home.
Our Four Regions
- Appalachia
- Black Belt
- Delta
- Tribal Nations, Texas & Four Corners
- Other Regions We Work With
Locally Led
Four regions, each led by someone who lives there
We organize this work through four regions, each led by a Regional Vice President who lives in and is rooted in the community they serve.
Appalachia
Dozens of counties across Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Ohio
Appalachia is diverse, vibrant, and abundant in resources, but it also carries a distinct set of challenges: historic flooding, the opioid crisis, rising cancer rates, and decades of economic decline. Together for Hope Appalachia works from the conviction that the region’s people, land, and labor history are strong enough to meet those challenges.
Where the Work is Happening
- Extreme Build, in partnership with CBF Kentucky, has built 19 homes for families in McCreary and Owsley Counties, two of the original 20 counties TFH was founded to serve.
- Partnership Housing in Owsley County has secured $7.1 million in funding to build and rehabilitate homes after two consecutive years of historic flooding.
- EDGE (Economic Development Greater East) in McDowell County, West Virginia, is building land access and entrepreneurship pathways in agriculture, tourism, and renewable energy, work that helped launch Appalachian Gold, a Black-owned enterprise built in partnership with TFH.
- The New Opportunity School for Women in Berea, Kentucky, helps women facing addiction, abuse, and isolation rebuild their lives through education.
Counties Served in Appalachia
Kentucky
Adair · Bell · Breathitt · Carter · Casey · Clay · Clinton · Cumberland · Elliott · Estill · Floyd · Harlan · Hart · Jackson · Johnson · Knott · Knox · Laurel · Lawrence · Lee · Leslie · Letcher · Lewis · Lincoln · Magoffin · Martin · McCreary · Menifee · Metcalfe · Monroe · Morgan · Owsley · Perry · Pike · Powell · Robertson · Rockcastle · Rowan · Russell · Wayne · Whitley · Wolfe
Ohio
Athens
Tennessee
Claiborne · Cocke · Fentress · Grundy · Hancock · Johnson · Scott
Virginia
Buchanan · Dickenson · Lee · Wise
West Virginia
Calhoun · Gilmer · Lewis · Logan · McDowell · Mingo · Summers · Webster · Wyoming
Led by Keith Stillwell, Vice President for Appalachia, and Kristy Bay, Director of Programs and Partnerships.
Black Belt
Coalition members across Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina
Appalachia is diverse, vibrant, and abundant in resources, but it also carries a distinct set of challenges: historic flooding, the opioid crisis, rising cancer rates, and decades of economic decline. Together for Hope Appalachia works from the conviction that the region’s people, land, and labor history are strong enough to meet those challenges.
Where the Work is Happening
- Sowing Seeds of Hope in Perry County, Alabama, has helped 20 families achieve homeownership through the USDA’s Self-Help Housing program.
- SEED Camp, a partnership with Alabama CBF, brought seven churches together for a week of service across two Perry County schools.
- Building Hope Weekend mobilized 120 volunteers across Alabama and South Carolina, completing five home repairs and six wheelchair ramps for local homeowners.
- A partnership with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta is connecting Black Belt housing organizations to major disaster-recovery and home-repair funding programs.
Counties Served in Black Belt
Alabama
Barbour · Bullock · Butler · Choctaw · Conecuh · Dallas · Escambia · Greene · Macon · Marengo · Monroe · Perry · Pike · Sumter · Wilcox
Florida
Hamilton · Hardee · Madison · Putnam
Georgia
Atkinson · Ben Hill · Bulloch · Calhoun · Candler · Clay · Clinch · Colquitt · Cook · Crisp · Decatur · Dooly · Early · Emanuel · Evans · Grady · Hancock · Jefferson · Jenkins · Johnson · Macon · Miller · Mitchell · Quitman · Randolph · Screven · Seminole · Stewart · Sumter · Talbot · Taliaferro · Tattnall · Taylor · Telfair · Tift · Treutlen · Turner · Ware · Warren · Washington · Wheeler · Wilcox
North Carolina
Bertie · Bladen · Columbus · Halifax · Martin · Northampton · Robeson · Tyrrell · Washington
South Carolina
Allendale · Bamberg · Barnwell · Clarendon · Colleton · Dillon · Hampton · Lee · Marion · Marlboro · Orangeburg · Williamsburg
Led by Rachel Gunter Shapard, Regional Vice President, and Katie Fletcher, Alabama State Manager.
Delta
Serving the Mississippi Delta and surrounding counties
The Delta region has some of the deepest and longest-running partnerships in the TFH coalition, and it shows in the results. Together for Hope has served thousands of families across the Mississippi Delta, with new families joining every year.
Where the Work is Happening
- Delta Circles in Helena, Arkansas, partnered with Google on a STEM camp that lifted student assessment scores from the 35th to the 90th percentile. Its Women Increasing Net-worth program helps Black women build savings and raise their credit scores.
- Delta Hands for Hope in Shaw, Mississippi, started with 25 kids at a single summer camp in 2014. It now runs a youth leadership program that logged 1,500 volunteer hours in 2025 alone.
- FABRIC Inc. in Cleveland, Mississippi, has grown into a hub for community development and housing innovation.
- A Better Way Grocers is expanding food access through mobile grocery service in communities without a nearby store.
Counties Served in Delta
Arkansas
Bradley · Chicot · Columbia · Desha · Lafayette · Lee · Mississippi · Monroe · Nevada · Phillips · Searcy · St. Francis · Woodruff
Illinois
Pulaski
Kentucky
Fulton
Louisiana
Allen · Avoyelles · Bienville · Caldwell · Catahoula · Claiborne · Concordia · East Carroll · Evangeline · Franklin · Lincoln · Madison · Morehouse · Natchitoches · Red River · Richland · St. Landry · St. Mary · Tensas · Washington · West Carroll · Winn
Mississippi
Adams · Amite · Attala · Bolivar · Chickasaw · Choctaw · Claiborne · Clarke · Clay · Coahoma · Covington · Franklin · Greene · Grenada · Holmes · Humphreys · Issaquena · Jasper · Jefferson · Jefferson Davis · Jones · Kemper · Lauderdale · Lawrence · Leake · Leflore · Marion · Montgomery · Neshoba · Newton · Noxubee · Oktibbeha · Panola · Pike · Quitman · Scott · Sharkey · Sunflower · Tallahatchie · Walthall · Washington · Wayne · Wilkinson · Winston · Yalobusha
Missouri
Carter · Dunklin · Mississippi · New Madrid · Oregon · Ozark · Pemiscot · Reynolds · Ripley · Shannon · Texas · Washington · Wayne · Wright
Tennessee
Haywood · Lake
Texas
Houston · Marion · Nacogdoches · San Augustine
Led by Breana Patterson, Director of Programs and Partnerships.
Tribal Nations, Texas & Four Corners (TNT4C)
Serving Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Alaska
This is TFH’s newest and most geographically expansive region, extending the coalition’s work into Native lands, Texas, and the high desert Southwest.
Where the Work is Happening
- New Wine Church in La Feria, Texas, was founded in 1999 and has since planted congregations in colonias along the border and launched a nonprofit to serve those communities. Its members have also hosted neighborhood medical clinics for families without access to affordable care.
- FaithWorks (formerly Fellowship Southwest), based in Dripping Springs, Texas, connects churches across five states and northern Mexico. A Lilly Endowment grant is helping it equip congregations for immigration and border ministry with coaching and seed funding.
- CBF Oklahoma in Norman has spent more than a decade building partnership with three Native American congregations in western Oklahoma, including bringing a 75-student volunteer team to work alongside all three churches.
Counties Served in TNT4C
Alaska
Bethel · Kusilvak · Yukon-Koyukuk
Arizona
Apache · Graham · La Paz · Navajo
Colorado
Alamosa · Bent · Conejos · Costilla · Saguache
Idaho
Madison
Montana
Big Horn · Blaine · Glacier · Roosevelt
Nebraska
Thurston
New Mexico
Catron · Cibola · Guadalupe · Hidalgo · Luna · McKinley · Mora · Quay · Rio Arriba · San Miguel · Sierra · Socorro
North Dakota
Benson · Rolette
Oklahoma
Adair · Caddo · Cherokee · Choctaw · Greer · Harmon · Haskell · Hughes · Johnston · McCurtain · Okfuskee · Payne · Pushmataha · Seminole · Tillman
South Dakota
Bennett · Buffalo · Charles Mix · Corson · Dewey · Jackson · Lyman · McPherson · Mellette · Oglala Lakota · Roberts · Todd · Ziebach
Texas
Bee · Brooks · Cochran · Culberson · Dawson · Dimmit · Duval · Edwards · Frio · Garza · Hall · Haskell · Jim Hogg · Jim Wells · Karnes · Kleberg · La Salle · Maverick · Menard · Reeves · Starr · Terry · Uvalde · Val Verde · Willacy · Zapata · Zavala
Utah
San Juan
Led by Diego Silva, Vice President of TNT4C, and Cory Peacock, Four Corners Regional Manager.