At Woodlands Every Project Begins With a Community Conversation.

As a result of facilitated community conversations and strategic planning sessions, Woodlands has been developing community-requested projects from housing to parks and trails, planning sessions, and artists initiatives since 1995.

Woodlands helps make sure that each community’s priority projects are completed by coordinating funding sources and experts. These keystone projects inspire private development throughout the neighborhood. This intersection of private, civic, and non-profit development in an area creates the dynamic, creative communities that are resilient and able to serve the full spectrum of residents.

We can facilitate a strategic planning session with your group or community. Or we can help you make your plan a reality.

Our goal is to help a community get a project going and to see it through to completion and beyond. We are a non-profit organization, but we are our communities as well. We live, work, and raise our families in this beautiful and resilient corner of the world and we want to see it thrive now and into the future.

Home Ownership Center

Woodlands has built dozens of single-family homes that have been sold at affordable prices to families in our area. Many of these families were able to qualify for a mortgage with the assistance of the Home Ownership Center. By working together our organizations can better serve the needs of our communities.

Check them out!

Alpine Heritage Foundation

The Alpine Heritage Foundation is engaged in saving and rebuilding the historic Cottrill’s Opera House in Thomas, WV. Woodlands has provided grant writing assistance and small group facilitation to help them stabilize the building and create a strategic and a business plan to guide fundraising efforts

The Cottrills Story

Randolph County Housing Authority

The Randolph County Housing Authority has been a close partner since our inception and we continue to collaborate on meeting building and housing development objectives throughout our service area. RCHA helps manage our properties and we help them develop some of theirs. This collaboration allows us to avoid duplicating resources in our small community while still meeting needs.

Visit RCHA's webpage

City of Thomas

We have worked with the City of Thomas to develop creative economy opportunities, plan and help execute a riverfront development plan, and build new trails in their city park.

Read the Story of Dale's Trail

YouthBuild

YouthBuild provides vocational and educational training designed to give young adults the tools they need to get a good job and keep it. Together we are able to provide more home repair services to our communities, and more real-world vocational training opportunities for the YouthBuild participants

Learn more about YouthBuild

City of Belington

Woodlands has helped the City of Belington secure funding and build a pedestrian trail to increase connectivity in the town and purchase new playground equipment for their city park. The Golden Rule project restored and brought back into service one of the largest and oldest buildings in town.

Read About the Golden Rule Project