Donate
Donate now for this cause.
OVEC's presence is essential to our region's environmental and soical health.
When you make a donation to OVEC, you will receive our quarterly newsletter, invitations to special events, including our annual event and opportunities to volunteer.
OVEC is a 501-c-3 organization, so donations to OVEC are tax deductible. CLICK HERE for our donation form, if your prefer to donate by check.
Mail your donation form and check to: OVEC, PO BOX 6753, Huntington, WV 25773.
Other ways to contribute:
Need description here.
Great Gibson Custom Guitar Up for Grabs
This Gibson Custom guitar, built with sustainable Chechen wood, is in excellent condition and ready to be played. It was built in 1994 and is signed by the builders, master luthiers Ren Ferguson and John Walker.
Double Your Impact: Donate for Our Challenge Grant
For each and every donation that we receive between now and June 1, OVEC will receive a dollar-for-dollar match of up to $20,000! In other words, to be eligible for this $20,000 gift, we must raise $20,000. Please donate here.
Exploding Bakken Crude: People Evacuated. Crude in River?
West Virginia’s over-reliance on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels guarantees more disasters, more toxic pollution of our precious, vital water resources, increases to on-going threats to public health and safety, and threatens the very future of planet Earth due to climate disruption. This is beyond common sense when clean, renewable solar and wind energy are off-the-shelf technology becoming increasingly more competitive with coal, gas and oil with the added benefits of thousands of new jobs along with greater safety for the public.
Sample Comments on AboveGround Storage Tank Bill
If you need some inspiration to draft your own note to send the committee considering the Aboveground Storage Tank Act , here's a sample letter, as well as e-mail addresses for the committee.
Janet Keating: Intro to Tele-Press Conference on Water Crisis Anniversary
Citizen groups, many who currently participate in the West Virginia Safe Water Roundtable, including OVEC, still have concerns about the long-term safety of our water supply.
OVEC Fire Sale! Hot! Hot! Hot!
OVEC is having a fire sale. Seriously. It’s a guitar sale that resulted from an unfortunate house fire. Thankfully the homeowners escaped injury, but most of their possessions did not—except for some beautiful handmade guitars.
Migwetch! Sharon Day and Barb Baker-larush Complete the Nibi Walk for the Ohio River!
981 miles of steps for the Ohio River during the Ohio River Nibi walk! They did it! Thank you, Ojibwe women, Sharon Day and Barb Baker-larush for every loving step you took with each step a healing prayer!
Remembering Elinore Taylor
I can’t remember a time when Elinore Taylor wasn’t associated with OVEC. If you go to our website and type in her name, you will find page after page of results. Elinore was everywhere present in OVEC’s activities and organizational development. Hers was a welcoming smile at board meetings, protests, and public hearings including events that she initiated. Behind that warm smile was not only a friendly, caring woman, but also a dedicated, determined defender of “the least of these, my brethren.”
Anita Wotiz, former WV native responds: I’m From West Virginia and I’ve Got Something to Say About the Chemical Spill
Having lived in West Virginia for 5 years and graduating (long ago) from Huntington High School, the state and its people are often in my thoughts and always in my heart. Last week I received an email from a friend of a friend who lives in West Virginia and was forwarding an article about the recent chemical spill. She commented that the article expressed many of her questions from the past 35 years she has lived in the state, but she had never felt the rage expressed by the author.
OVEC ED Statement on Leak / Water Emergency
The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) extends its concern to people and communities impacted by yesterday’s release of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol. More than a day and a half after people first noticed the odor that alerted officials to the leak, the smell still lingers near downtown Charleston, though, due to health-department-ordered shutdown of restaurants, there are few people downtown.
Help Us Reach Our Year-End Fundraising Goal
We have a lofty goal of raising $25,000 in memberships and grassroots donations by December 31. We can do this, with your help.
A Farewell to Janice Nease
West Virginia’s mountains and people have lost another passionate protector. Janice Nease, a coal miner’s daughter, […]
A Statement from OVEC’s Executive Director about the ACHE Act, HR 526, introduced Congress, Feb. 6, 2013
The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) applauds the sponsors of the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act, […]
What Took You So Long?
OVEC’s Vivian Stockman and I took a tour of the beautiful, new Marsh Fork Elementary School […]
OVEC Celebrates 25 Years of Organized Voices and Empowered Communities!
Wow! Happy 25th Birthday OVEC! Who would have thought that OVEC would still be going […]
Rescue Warranted for the WV Supreme Court Public Campaign Pilot
More and more these days, I’m beginning to believe that I live in “upside-down” world, the […]
All That and Mountains, Too
A year ago, I couldn’t have imagined going to Rio de Janiero, Brazil, let alone going […]
Blame it on Rio
I’m still amazed after all these years the number of times that I seem to be […]
The Future We Don’t Want
Below is a statement from the Non-govermental Organizations (NGOs) attending the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable […]
Locks Sheared for The Mountains
Marilyn Mullins had a dream and then she acted on it. Via Facebook, to call for […]