The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has selected the recipients of its Fall 2014 grant awards. On November 21, 2014, Trustees voted to approve 103 grants totaling $6.6 million to organizations across North Carolina.
The Foundation has two grant cycles per year; one in the Spring and one in the Fall. It currently has 423 active grants. For a complete listing of grants by year, click here.
Organizations awarded grants in the Fall 2014 cycle are listed below in alphabetical order.
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Carolina Common Enterprise
For general operating support
Center for Community Action, Inc.
For general operating support
Community Artist Will, Inc.
For general operating support
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Forsyth County
IMPACT: A Model Place-Based Asset Building Approach Project
Core Sound Waterfowl Museum
Saltwater Connections: Building Stronger Communities Together Project
Craven Community College
Craven County Entrepreneur and Resource Center Project
Forward Communities
Enterprising at Durham’s Margins Project
Graham Revitalization Economic Action Team
For general operating support
Habitat for Humanity of NC, Inc.
Equalizing the Social and Economic Gap of Affordable Housing and Availability in North Carolina Project
IDA and Asset Building Collaborative of NC, Inc.
For general operating support
Just Economics
For general operating support
Legal Aid of NC, Inc.
Home Defense and Consumer Protection Project
Lumbee Revitalization and Community Development Corporation
Fostering Economic Development through Capacity Building Project
Metropolitan Housing and Community Development Corporation
Blounts Creek Economic Stimulus Project
Mid-East Resource Conservation and Development
Facilitating a Sustainable, Resource-Based Economy in Northeast NC's Land of Water (NC LOW) Coastal System Project
NC Association of Black Lawyers' Land Loss Prevention Project
For general operating support
NC Community Development Initiative
For general operating support
NC Housing Coalition, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Indian Economic Development Initiative
For general operating support
Ocracoke Foundation
For general operating support
PPRE-Forevergreen of Charlotte, Inc.
For general operating support
Queen City Forward
For general operating support
Rocky Mount/Edgecombe Community Development Corporation
Community Academy Project
Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA
For general operating support
Sow Much Good, Inc.
For general operating support
Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional (TRACTOR)
For general operating support
University of NC-Chapel Hill
Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity's Exploring Economic Distress in North Carolina Communities Project
Winston-Salem Foundation
For general operating support
ENVIRONMENT
Cape Fear River Watch, Inc.
For general operating support
Carolina Thread Trail
Advancing the North Carolina Trail Coalition through Economic Assessment
Conservation Trust for NC
For general operating support
Dan River Basin Association
For general operating support
Dogwood Alliance, Inc.
Bioenergy Project
Duke University
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions' North Carolina Energy Policy Framework Development Project
Foothills Conservancy of NC, Inc.
Catawba-Wateree Initiative Project
Haw River Assembly, Inc.
For general operating support
National Audubon Society, Inc.
Audubon North Carolina Climate Change Action Plan Project
NC Coastal Federation, Inc.
How Does Climate Change Affect Weather and the N.C. Coast? A Workshop for Broadcast Meteorologists Project
NC Coastal Land Trust
Towards a Community-Centered Approach to Coastal Conservation Project
NC Environmental Justice Network
For general operating support
NC Wildlife Federation
For general operating support
Neuse River Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
Pamlico-Tar River Foundation, Inc.
Merger Integration and New Organization Development Project
Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help
For general operating support
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Blue Ridge Forever Project
Trust for Public Land
Land for Tomorrow Project
Vote Solar
For general operating support of its work in North Carolina
WakeUP Wake County, Inc.
Planning for Growth Sustainably: Using Civic Engagement to Improve Transit, Land Use, and Drinking Water Project
West End Revitalization Association, Inc.
For general operating support
Winyah Rivers Foundation, Inc.
Advocacy for Water Quality Protection in the Lumber River Basin Project
PUBLIC EDUCATION
Craven County Schools
Leadership Engagement And Development (LEAD) Project
Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education
For general operating support
NC Early Childhood Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Justice Center
Education Reporter Project
NC Partnership for Children
Board Strengthening Project
NC School Public Relations Association
Every Child's Chance/Every Community's Future Campaign Project
Public Schools First NC, Inc.
For general operating support
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Diversity, Inclusion and a Sound Basic Education Project
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
College of Education's First 3 Beginning Teacher Support Program project
University of North Carolina General Administration
NC New Teacher Support Program: Beginning Teacher Collaborative Project
Wake Education Partnership
For general operating support
SOCIAL JUSTICE & EQUITY
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina
For general operating support
Campaign for Migrant Worker Justice
For general operating support for the North Carolina office
Carolina Justice Policy Center
For general operating support
Centro Internacional de Raleigh, Inc.
CIR's Immigrant Legal Advocacy Network (CILAN) Project
Coalición Latinoamericano
For general operating support
Concerned Citizens of Tillery
For general operating support
Equality NC Foundation
For general operating support
Freedom Center for Social Justice
For general operating support of its work in North Carolina
Helpmate, Inc.
Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention and Data Collection Project
Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County
For general operating support
Mano al Hermano
For general operating support
NC Center on Actual Innocence
For general operating support
NC Child
For general operating support
NC Council of Churches
From Hostility to Hospitality: Immigration and People of Faith Project
NC FIELD, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Harm Reduction Coalition
For general operating support
NC Society of Hispanic Professionals, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Wesleyan College
Scholars Latino Initiative Project
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
NC Grassroots Education and Mobilization for Death Penalty Repeal Project
Southerners On New Ground, Inc.
For general operating support for its work in North Carolina
Sparrow's House of Yadkin, Inc.
For general operating support
Women AdvaNCe
For general operating support
YWCA-High Point
Building Healthy Latino Communities Project
STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY
Action Institute NC
For general operating support
City of Asheville
Building Neighborhood Capacity and Leadership Across Race and Class project
Blueprint NC
For general operating support
Carolina Public Press, Inc.
For general operating support
Common Cause Education Fund
For general operating support
Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment, Inc.
For general operating support
Gaston Together: Communities of Excellence
For general operating support
HOPE (Helping Organize People Effectively)
For general operating support
Media in the Public Interest
Next Step: Video! Strengthening Democracy & Civic Engagement through North Carolina News Service project
MomsRising Education Fund
For general operating support of its operations in North Carolina
NC Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
Our Democracy. Our Voice Project
Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods
For general operating support
Orange County Justice United in Community Effort, Inc.
For general operating support
Raleigh Public Record, Inc.
For general operating support
Scholars for North Carolina's Future
For general operating support
Working America Education Fund
For general operating support of its North Carolina office
Working Films, Inc.
Reel Engagement North Carolina Project
MISCELLANEOUS
Old Salem, Inc.
Transformation of the 1794 Boys' School Project
Rutherford Housing Partnership, Inc.
For general operating support