Appalachian Volunteers

Appalachian Volunteers

Founded	1964
Focus	Community organization
Area served	Central Appalachia
Method	Organizing, community development

Appalachian Volunteers (AV) was a non-profit organization engaged in community development projects in central Appalachia that evolved into a controversial community organizing network, with a reputation that went "from self-help to sedition" as its staff developed from "reformers to radicals," teaching things from Marx, Lenin and Mao, in the words of one historian, in the brief period between 1964 and 1970 during the War on Poverty.^[1][2]