The One Foundation’s Grant to West Virginia University’s Justice Lab

A former president of West Liberty University, Robin Capehart led the institution to increase its overall and adult enrollment by 15.5 and 25.6 percent, respectively. In addition to his higher education experience, he is an attorney who previously served as an assistant prosecuting attorney in Marshall County, West Virginia. Robin Capehart received his JD from West Virginia University (WVU), which recently received a grant from the One Foundation.

The One Foundation recently provided a $30,000 grant to the Department of Geology and Geography’s Food Justice Lab at WVU. The funds are to be used to further the work of the FIRSTHAND Coffee Cooperative, a youth-led coffee project that began at WVU in 2012. The FIRSTHAND Coffee Cooperative operates a fair-trade coffee business that shares profits with communities that grow coffee and with communities in the West Virginia coalfields.

The One Foundation’s grant will support the FIRSTHAND Coffee Cooperative’s Mountains to Mountains campaign, part of the cooperative’s social impact mission. The campaign raises funds to promote income diversification and support food sovereignty projects both locally and throughout the world’s mountain communities.