Together, we are all ONE.

Experience our legacy of giving with care, sharing and cultivating the light in ourselves and others, and tending to struggling communities in an effort to yield an abundant future in Central Appalachia and beyond.

Enter this site with an open mind
and open heart.

Our Organization

We are not defined by what we have been given, but by our intentions and ability to direct or manage our attention.

We all share similar essential basic needs. We cannot find personal or communal peace without fair and just access for all to resources provided by abundant nature.

In order to give, to serve appropriately, we begin with attention to the ground, to understand the root causes of disharmony, hardship and realities facing our communities.

Please note that One Foundation is not accepting grant applications at this time as we focus on our current funding priorities.

Updates on future funding opportunities will be posted on this page.

Our Values

  • Peace

  • Partnerships

  • Justice

  • Wisdom

  • Regeneration

  • Leadership

To appreciate the fruits, we must tend to the roots.

We work to nurture a grassroots transformation toward a more diverse, more sustainable, and more inclusive economy across the coalfields of Central Appalachia and beyond.

Our core strategy is to partner with individuals and organizations to build and lead initiatives that regenerate community, the planet, and self. This approach is much like that of a farmer who cultivates the ground and tends to the roots so that there can be healthy growth. We foster a strong entrepreneurial environment to ensure change is both systemic and transformational.

Our supportive methods include collective voice development, leadership development, building skills, increasing access for low-income community members, leveraging innovative capital, and engaging other funders. This means energizing communities to connect their priorities to local entrepreneurial solutions and accomplishing cumulative, long-term sustainable outcomes.

Founding Principle

One Foundation was founded on the principle of Rahm, the experience that compels us to give.

The understanding that each human is endowed at birth with the potential of pure heart and clear mind in order to lift one another out of suffering.

Guiding Principles

One Foundation seeks partners with a commitment to the values that we, too, hold. Examples of these values include sustainability, equity, inclusion and service to others. In developing a partnership, we seek first light and mutual understanding before we engage in support.

Featured Partners

Active Southern West Virginia

Be Well Now VA

Fruits of Labor

New River Conservancy

Fayette County Public Libraries

Ananda Learning Center, Oaxaca

WV Wesleyan Center for Restorative Justice

A Place to Grow / Together We Grow

Angla, Ecuador Community Building

Alliance for the Earth

BARN Community Center

West Virginia Healing Home

Khadi Oaxaca

The Sicangu Lakota School

Village Rise

Instill Mindfulness

WVU Center for Resilient Communities

FOUNDER’S STORY

Marz Attar

Marz Attar has received many gifts in his life. A native of Iran, he completed an MBA at Harvard as a Ford Fellow in the late ‘60s. By the late 1980s, Attar founded Highland Cellular Inc. in West Virginia, a franchisee of Cellular One, and worked to build wireless cellular communication across southern West Virginia and northwestern Virginia. With the capital he received from selling his company (which later merged with AT&T) in 2007, Attar co-founded the One Foundation in 2010.

As a lifelong spiritual seeker, Attar is guided by the deepest teachings of mankind - love, brotherhood and caring for your neighbor. And throughout its existence, the mission at the One Foundation has remained the same - To help create a world where compassion, altruism and love of one’s neighbor can flourish and thrive so that humanity’s paradigm can start to shift away from greed and conquest to peace and harmony. The One Foundation is both regionally and internationally minded, dedicating resources and mentorship to helping grassroots organizations working throughout central Appalachia and beyond to nurture transformation from the ground up by helping regenerate community, the planet and self.

“From the early age, I was tempted to seek freedom and light while maneuvering through the demands of modern life.

Based on my entrepreneurial nature and good fortune, I am committed to One Foundation & The Attar Family DAF, in search of intelligent creative altruism.”

Foundation Team

  • Marz Attar

  • Tom Attar

  • Charlee Fox

    Grant Programs Manager

    CharleeFox@all-onefoundation.org

  • Florian Schleiff

Connection

One Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals.
However, we do seek connection with those who feel resonance with our principles.

One Foundation

125 Whitestick Road

Beckley, WV 25801