ZSR Trustees Announce Spring 2016 Grant Awards 59 grants totaling $5.7 million

Announcements

The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has selected the recipients of its Spring 2016 grant awards.

On May 20, 2016, Trustees voted to approve 59 grants totaling $5.7 million to organizations across North Carolina.

Organizations awarded grants in the Spring 2016 cycle are listed below in alphabetical order.

COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture
For general operating support

Brunswick Housing Opportunities
For general operating support

Carolina Common Enterprise
Supporting Cooperatives in Communities of Color Project

Central Park NC
For general operating support

Farmer Foodshare, Inc.
For general operating support

Green Opportunities, Inc.
For general operating support

IAMSHE INC
For general operating support

Lydia's House in Southeast
People for a Better Aurora/Richland Township Project

NC Business Council, Inc.
For general operating support

NC Coalition to End Homelessness
For general operating support

NC Community Action Association
NEW Ventures Project

Running Over Connection, Inc.
American Indian Made in NC (AIM-NC) project

Sandhills Family Heritage Association
For general operating support
 
Shaw University
CAPE Revitalization Project
 
Valdese Economic Development Investment Corporation
For general operating support
 
ENVIRONMENT
 
Appalachian Voices
For general operating support of work in North Carolina
 
Asheville Greenworks
Building a Racial Equity Environmental Leadership Pipeline in WNC Project
 
Cape Fear Resource Conservation and Development
Cape Fear Regional Environmental Study Project
 
Clean Air Carolina
Clean Air Zones Monitoring Project
 
Clean Water for NC, Inc.
For general operating support
 
Extra Terrestrial Projects, Inc.
Weaving New Millennial Networks for a Climate Resilient North Carolina Project
 
Fresh Energy
Southeast Energy News North Carolina Reporter Project
 
National Audubon Society, Inc.
Audubon North Carolina Climate Initiative Project
 
NC Conservation Network
For general operating support
 
NC League of Conservation Voters Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
 
NC Sustainable Energy Association
For general operating support
 
Toxic Free NC, Inc.
For general operating support
 
PUBLIC EDUCATION
 
EducationNC
For general operating support
 
Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools
ECPPS Leaders Executive Action Program project
 
Parents for Public Schools of Pitt County
For general operating support
 
Profound Gentlemen
For general operating support of work in North Carolina
 
Rockingham County Education Foundation
Join the Cause. Education Works! project
 
Wake Education Partnership
For general operating support
 
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Project Transition to Teaching (T2T) project
 
STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY
 
Alliance of North Carolina Black Elected Officials
For general operating support
 
Common Cause Education Fund
Voting a Full Ballot in North Carolina project
 
Institute of Political Leadership, Inc.
For general operating support
 
Media in the Public Interest
Next Step Video! Uplifting Voices through Digital Media Project
 
NC Justice Center
For general operating support
 
NC Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
Youth Engagement Project
 
Orange County Justice United in Community Effort, Inc.
Developing Low Income Leaders to Strengthen Democracy Project
 
Scholars for NC's Future
Voting Rights Teach-Ins Project
 
Southern Vision Alliance
Election Protection project
 
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY
 
American Civil Liberties Union of NC Legal Foundation
Criminal Justice Debt Project
 
Campaign for Southern Equality
For general operating support
 
Catawba County Hispanic Ministry
For general operating support
 
Center for Death Penalty Litigation, Inc.
Public Education and Information Project
 
Concerned Citizens of Tillery
For general operating support
 
FaithAction International House
For general operating support
 
Family Services, Inc.
Family Violence Prevention Initiative Project
 
Family Violence Prevention Center, Inc. d/b/a Interact
Regional Spanish Domestic Violence Hotline Project
 
Jonesboro United Methodist Church
El Refugio Centro de Recursos Familiares/The Refuge Family Resource Center Project
 
Mano al Hermano
For general operating support
 
NC Center for International Understanding
Latino Initiative - Policy and Community Leaders Project
 
NC Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
For general operating support
 
NC Farmworkers Project, Inc.
Farmworker Advocacy Network Project
 
Student Action with Farmworkers
For general operating support
 
MISCELLANEOUS
 
NC Center for Non Profit Organizations, Inc.
For general operating support
 
Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park and Museum
For general operating support