ABCCM Medical Ministry
Fund clinician staff to oversee the growing telehealth component of the medical clinic. The clinic’s outpatient telehealth structure mainly provides acute/episodic medical care and pharmacy services to the uninsured.

All Souls Counseling Center
Support occupancy and administrative costs as well as therapist and psychiatrist sessions to meet the mental health needs of uninsured and underinsured adults in Western North Carolina.

Arc of Buncombe County
Help individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities realize their highest potential through advocacy, education, programs, and family support.

Asheville Buncombe Institute of Parity Achievement
Expand the community health worker program and elevate the response to the pandemic and its aftermath by expanding capacity and development programming to a virtual program.

Babies Need Bottoms
Support the health and wellness of babies and families through the purchase and distribution of training pants “Pull-Up” style diapers and potty-training supplies.

Black Mountain Counseling Center
Cover the costs for program development and presentation along with some funding for follow-up services. Pay for the professional counseling services with some additional funding for administrative support.

Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project DBA: Blue Ridge Free Dental Clinic
Support for direct service dental personnel to increase access to dental care in WNC. Funds will support staff activities related to the emergency dental needs of patients, which account for 45% of all procedures and restorative and preventative procedures.

Bountiful Cities
Establish the Collaborative Food Security Apprenticeship Program, a collaborative, community-centered educational pathway aiming to support economic and food system community empowerment. The multifaceted and practical educational content thoroughly prepares learners for employment opportunities within the local food system and the organizations that work toward food security while earning a living wage.

Bounty & Soul
Support and expand programs that focus on the intersection of food, farms, and health. Bounty & Soul is in a stage of growth, as it strives to ensure everyone and anyone who needs its services has equitable access.

Campaign for Southern Equality
Distribute funds in Emergency Assistance Grants to address the acute financial and personal difficulties experienced by LGBTQ individuals in WNC, improve resilience for individuals and families facing unexpected hardships, and help them thrive in their daily lives.

Casting for Hope
Provide financial services to women in Western North Carolina who are battling gynecological cancers. Use these funds to help women and families with medical bills, office co-pays, over-the-counter and prescription medications, rent and housing, food shortages, gas cards to travel to medical appointments, among other needs through the end of the pandemic and the start of the financial recovery.

Dig In! Yancey Community Garden
Host a participatory design charrette for one new community garden, purchase supplies for the installation and maintenance of 3 gardens, support a Gardens Coordinator position to help plan and bring people together in the initiative, provide stipends to garden leaders, support volunteer gleaning activities, initiate a local “crop mob” network, provide educational support and implement outreach activities.

Eblen Charities
The Eblen Charities Adult Assistance and Stability Program provides resources for adults to obtain and/or retain adequate housing by providing both security deposits to eliminate homelessness or sub-standard living conditions, as well as funding to prevent eviction from established living situations.

Good Samaritan Clinic
Make medication access equitable for all uninsured in our communities, not just enrolled patients, through community uninsured health care provider partners who do not have access to medications.

Grace Place, A Community Table
Expand the food pantry capacity to families to help make the pantry fully operational to meet the critical needs in Graham County.

Haywood Pathways Center
Provide emergency food, shelter, safety, case management, and rehabilitative services to the homeless and formerly incarcerated in Haywood County.

Haywood Street Congregation
Provide medical respite care to 8 homeless adults at a time. “Friends” who stay at HSR have a safe place to rest 24 hours a day; 3 meals a day; transportation to follow-up appointments; and assistance accessing needed services and supports.

Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina
The Permanent Supportive Housing program ends chronic homelessness with housing, rental assistance, and case management support services for the most vulnerable individuals and families due to mental health, substance use, and/or chronic physical health issues.

Interfaith Assistance Ministry
Expand Food Inequities Relief Project programs to provide more equitable distribution of nutritious foods and reduce food insecurity and hunger. Purchase a new 24-foot refrigerated truck that would enable IAM staff and volunteers to hold pop-up Mobile Food Markets in underserved neighborhoods and mobile home parks to residents living near, at, and beneath the federal poverty line.

MANNA Food Bank
Expand two important initiatives designed to increase long-term food security in WNC in order to expand collaborative outreach to other WNC organizations working to address the crisis of food insecurity and other SDOH. Continue the Data Insights Project to develop a more robust client data collection system that will capture the impact of hunger in WNC.

McDowell LFAC
The Foothills Food Hub will support rural Black, Brown, and White food insecure communities who live in West Marion, Marion East, Old Fort, North Cove, Nebo, and Dysartsville to distribute fresh produce, hot meals, and food boxes to families on a regular basis.

Ministry Seven DBA: Hendersonville Rescue Mission
Address the physical and social needs of individuals experiencing homelessness or living with low incomes from Henderson, Polk, Rutherford, and Transylvania Counties by providing daily meals, emergency shelter, transitional housing, addiction recovery, basic medical and mental health services, and referrals to other community resources.

Mount Zion Community Development
Project NAF (Nurturing Asheville and Area Families) connects pregnant/postpartum women to the care and services they need to improve birth and overall health outcomes, well-being, and quality of life.

Neighbors in Need
Provide heating assistance to Madison County neighbors in need during the winter season of 21-22.

Restoration House
Serve the working poor and homeless populations by expanding the current homeless shelter and adding a staff person to the only homeless shelter in Swain County.

Southwestern Community College
Purchase a GE Carescape Mechanical Ventilator for use in the respiratory therapy program curriculum as a simulation tool for students studying to become professional respiratory therapists.

Special Olympics North Carolina
Addition of a fellowship position, created in collaboration with a university partner, to build organizational capacity that supports a vibrant year-round sports program including both virtual and in-person training opportunities, culminating competition events, health education, and screenings, and medical exams leading to increased physical activity, improved aspects of physical and mental health, and healthcare accessibility for people with intellectual disabilities.

Swain County Family Resource Center
Support emergency needs (such as utilities, housing, hygiene needs, food, and clothing) in Swain County.

Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry
Support for Medical Assistance and Vehicle Repairs to help clients in the eastern part of Buncombe County get to their medical appointments or, for those who are working, can get to their jobs.

The Community Kitchen
Provide operational support to assure that neighbors in need have a safe place to come and get a hot meal, fellowship, and receive groceries to supplement their income.

The Giving Spoon
Support the Executive Director and Cooks to address food insecurity in Swain County and look into other social determinants of health to treat people as a whole, which increases a person’s ability to succeed.

The Housing Assistance Corporation
Support for the Single-Family Development Program ensuring that individuals and families can live in a safe and affordable home in Henderson, Polk, and Transylvania.

TRACTOR Food and Farms
Retain a Driver/Warehouse Associate who helps deliver locally sourced produce to food pantries and individuals that have screened positive for food insecurity of diet-related illnesses by their health care provider.

Trauma Intervention Programs
Expand crisis intervention services to ensure that the people of Henderson and Transylvania counties have someone in the immediacy of what is often the worst moment of their life.

Thrive
Addition of a staff member to support the organization’s work in providing mental health services to adults with severe and persistent mental illness; assist adults who receive Social Security or Disability income and need help managing finances; and provides permanent housing and case management services to people experiencing homelessness in Henderson, Polk, Rutherford, and Transylvania counties.

Vecinos Farmworker Health Program
Assist in increasing access to healthcare for low-income, uninsured Latinx community members in the six western counties.

W4H Asheville DBA: Working Wheels
Repair 21 vehicles for working families and continue to increase capacity to produce dependable vehicles.

Washburn Community Outreach Center
Meet the local community’s needs by providing an area for farmer’s markets or yard sales and adding a generator to preserve food in case of an electrical outage.

Western North Carolina Medical Society Foundation
Continue the ongoing Wellness Emergency Connection Access Network (WE CAN) project. Will provide wellness support and emergency access for medical care and socio-economic resources by paying for staff to address health inequities with interpretation services and funds to provide free transportation and childcare services.

YMI Cultural Center
Support for Operation Gateway, which is the upward economic mobility of Asheville’s Black communities. Participants will train to build technical and workforce skills from within one of four industries identified as high-demand, high-pay.

Yokefellow Service Center
Support of the crisis assistance provided in Rutherford County including rent assistance to prevent families from being evicted from their homes, payment on utilities, heating/cooling, fuel, and water so the client may maintain clean and healthy living conditions, non-narcotic prescription medications for health conditions and certain home health equipment.

YWCA of Asheville and WNC
Empowerment Child Care provides free or low-cost drop-in childcare and resource coordination for low-income families in Buncombe County who are looking to improve their lives and financial security through education, job training, or social services.