ABCCM Medical Ministry: Access to care for medical, dental, pharmacy services for uninsured adults. Typical clients are working uninsured adults from the tourism and hospitality industry, self-employed or entry level jobs with no income or not enough employees to offer insurance.

ABCCM-Veterans Services of the Carolinas: Provides veterans call center coordination in 16 western counties in any 1 of the 21 identified social service needs for service members regardless of discharge status. Ongoing support services are specially developed for veterans and family members.

All Souls Counseling Center: Sliding scale support for adult clients seeking mental health services who are uninsured or unable to pay due to unemployment. 

American Red Cross Serving Western North Carolina: A community emergency vehicle will be purchased for disaster relief throughout the WNC region, mostly around home fires and for biomed blood services. The vehicle will also transport volunteers to locations with aid and follow up case work such as bringing goods or information to victims.

Arc of Buncombe County Inc: Crisis assistance support will be available for people with disabilities and their families. This project also supports school IEP follow up for families to transition participants to job shadowing and sheltered employment for older disabled children aging out of services and parental support with counseling, medical and financial needs.

Asheville Buncombe Institute of Parity Achievement: Community health workers will conduct A1C screenings, nurse screenings, other access to care needs including helping patients purchase medical equipment and improve housing safety. 

Babies Need Bottoms, Inc: As the only diaper bank in WNC serving Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania, Madison, sometimes Mitchell, this project will further toilet training initiatives with 14 community partners.

Beacon of Hope: A new refrigerated box truck will support the food pantry’s efforts in helping Madison County residents access food boxes and obtain more fresh produce.

Black Mountain Counseling Center: Mental health services expansion into McDowell County and sliding scale for all clients as needed, from children to older adults.

Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project, Inc. DBA: Blue Ridge Free Dental Clinic: Uninsured and under-insured patients with emergency dental service needs will be able to access emergency and limited restorative dentistry in the counties of Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain and Transylvania

Bounty & Soul: This project will obtain and deliver produce to vulnerable, chronically ill people, and support ongoing nutrition education programs.

Buncombe County Health and Human Services-Clinical Services: Access to breast and cervical cancer treatment screenings for uninsured women ages 40-62 as well as support services for women with any abnormal results for length of their life. 

Buncombe County Veterans Treatment Court: Veterans Treatment Court’s holistic services for veterans sentenced from the district court system, usually identified with PTSD and limited family support. Efforts include teaching accountability through treatment (inpatient and outpatient) and weekly case management at least three times a week which includes housing, health and other supports.

Burke United Christian Ministries: A community resource manager will help support and prevent homelessness by coordinating with other churches and organizations that provide housing goods and occasional rental assistance for clients.

Eblen Charities: Will support the organization’s biggest gap in housing assistance: family units with no dependent children to help prevent homelessness in older adults, who usually seek help during crisis after medical or dental crisis impacts fixed income living.

Good Samaritan Clinic: A medical provider at this clinic will serve low-income uninsured or under-insured people who cannot afford co-pays or deductibles.

Haywood Pathways Center: Homeless shelter in Haywood County, provides meals and case management for each client to make sustainable change, in addition to safe shelter.

Haywood Street Congregation: The medical respite program will provide safe, secure housing for homeless people recovering from hospital stays. The program also works with respite clients to establish housing supports and resources upon recovery and discharge.

Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina: This project will provide case management and housing placement for people identified as homeless within the past 12 months, including work with landlords and clients through intensive case management.

Interfaith Assistance Ministry Inc: Basic needs assistance to prevent homelessness through community outreach managers actively engaged in Henderson County. Support includes rental assistance, utilities assistance, fuel assistance, bus tickets, medication assistance, personal hygiene items, emergency pet assistance, school supplies to name a few.

JM PRO TV: Strengthen bilingual media in WNC and provide communications with the Latinx population to keep them informed of COVID-19 updates.

MANNA Food Bank, Inc: Build capacity for MANNA’s partner providers and the food pantry supply network. Some portion of funds would help rebuild network that faltered during COVID-19 impacts and build a sustainable food distribution hub, connect clients to additional resources such as facilitating connections between service providers like WIC providers, and health screenings on site.

Ministry Seven dba/ Hendersonville Rescue Mission: This program includes shelter, drop-in clinic, cooked meals, and day center showers for people experiencing homelessness as well as workforce development efforts.

Mount Zion Community Development, Inc: Project Nurturing Area Families (NAF) will reduce infant mortality, premature and low birthweight births for African American pregnant and post-partum women.

Mountain Child Advocacy Center: Provide access to evidence-based crisis intervention and counseling services for children and their caregivers who have experienced abuse and their parents/caregivers who are struggling with PTSD symptoms.

New Hope of McDowell: A licensed counselor will provide services to all victims of abuse at the domestic violence shelter.

Olive Hill Community Economic Development Corporation, Inc: The Financial Empowerment Center will provide individualized asset building strategies promoting progress and prosperity among potential small business owners and/or clients working on rebuilding credit and homeownership.

Only Hope WNC: Provide access to the drop-in teen shelter and basic needs such as personal hygiene items and access to medical care.

Pisgah Legal Services: The medical-legal partnership with MAHEC will continue to embed an attorney in a medical department, serving clients in all 18 counties for housing, benefit, and domestic violence assistance.

REACH of Macon County: REACH’s prevention program will work with identified adolescent populations to promote change, create awareness, and increase knowledge about relationship violence and community violence. REACH’s prevention programming targets 5th-9th grade students by introducing age appropriate concepts that include conflict resolution, healthy/unhealthy relationships, victim blaming, gender stereotyping, anti-bullying, harassment, and bystander intervention skills.

Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry: Basic needs assistance, such as firewood, rental assistance, utilities payments, food pantry, clothing closet, and housing assistance.

The Center for Rural Health Innovation: Meds for Kids Program will provide access to medications for underinsured/uninsured students who utilize the telehealth program to include prescriptions, inhalers, antibiotics, and over the counter medications.

The Community Table: Supplemental groceries and nutritious, made-from-scratch meals to people in need in Jackson County.

The Giving Spoon: Meal program will provide free prepared, home-cooked meals to anyone in need, and some limited delivery for homebound seniors and people without transportation by purchase of a vehicle.

The Housing Assistance Corporation: Single parents and seniors on fixed incomes will be able to access major home repairs in efforts to prevent homelessness and unsafe conditions.

TRACTOR Food and Farms: Project will expand community access to local foods to fight hunger and improve community health, and to support farmers by connecting them with local markets and outlets serving those in need.

Thrive: Access to services for adults with mental health and housing needs in Western North Carolina.

United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County: 211 will expand its capacity, particularly during COVID-19 and related relief and recovery initiatives, to help those residing primarily in counties within the Western NC region find food, medical services, housing, utility assistance, and critical disaster services during the pandemic.

Vecinos Farmworker Health Program: Expansion of its unique service model of fully bilingual medical staff and Community Health Workers (CHWs) to low-income, uninsured Latinos that are not necessarily farmworkers.

W4H Asheville dba Working Wheels: Increase capacity to produce dependable cars as well as provide discounted vehicle repairs for essential workers who are unable to afford the necessary repairs on a vehicle they already own.

Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation: This project supports WE CAN efforts from Project Access which refers participating patients to supports for food, housing, transportation, and other social determinant of health needs.

Western Carolina Rescue Ministries: Overnight emergency shelter and men in transitional housing in recovery for up to one year.

Western North Carolina AIDS Project: Clients will be able to access emergency housing and utilities help, as well as out of pocket medical costs.

Yokefellow Service Center: Access to basic needs assistance with eviction prevention support.

YWCA of Asheville and WNC: Emergency child care will be expanded for parents looking for work or attending school.