Press Releases:
Press Release // SXSW Panel to Explore “Radial Giving” as the Key to Unlocking the Future of Philanthropy [February 25, 2025]
Press Release // Waymakers Announces 1st Round of Grants to LGBTQ+ Appalachian Artists [June 5, 2024]
Press Release // Waymakers Announces $250,000 Grant from the Ford Foundation for LGBTQ+ Appalachian Artists [April 25, 2024]
Press Release // Waymakers Collective Surpasses $1M in Grants to Appalachian Artists, Releases 2023 Impact Report [Jan. 29, 2024]
Press Release // Waymakers Collective Names First-Ever Exec Dir. [Nov. 10, 2023]
Press Release // Waymakers Collective’s 2023 “Radical Rest” Program Awards 105 Grants, $182,000 to Appalachian Artists [Sept. 21, 2023]
Media Coverage:
Hellmouth Magazine // We are all we have: Waymakers Collective; How the Waymakers Collective is championing Appalachian Futurism [June 10, 2025]
Devex // From more risk to less control, philanthropy is rethinking how it works [March 13, 2025]
American Diversity Report // Waymakers: Celebrating and Protecting Diversity in Appalachia – by Joe Tolbert Jr. [September 12, 2024]
Story Magazine // The Faces of Appalachia [March 5, 2024]
Medium // Meet The Disruptors: Joe Tolbert Jr Of Waymakers Collective On The Five Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry [Feb. 26, 2024]
Bloomberg // An Appalachian Group Is Forging a More Community-Led Approach to Giving [Dec. 2, 2022]
WEKU NPR // Arts group member hopes Pine Mountain confrontation leads to more understanding [Aug. 24, 2023]
Daily Yonder // Taken for Granted: Radical Grantmakers Lift Up Rural Artists and Culture Bearers [Aug. 31, 2022]