The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has selected the recipients of its Spring 2015 grant awards. On May 15, 2015, Trustees voted to approve 83 grants totaling more than $10 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 438 active grants. For a complete listing of grants by year, click here.
Organizations awarded grants in the Spring 2015 cycle are listed below in alphabetical order.
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
For general operating support
For general operating support
For general operating support
For general operating support
For general operating support
For general operating support
Economic Opportunity in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Project
For general operating support
For general operating support
For general operating support
For general operating support
For general operating support
For general operating support
Sustaining and Managing Economic Development Collaborations Project
De-Zombification Project
For general operating support
NC Farmer Leadership Network Project
For general operating support
Kenan Institute's NC Growth Initiative Project
For general operating support
Have The Talk Campaign Project and broader organizational work in North Carolina
American Lung Association of the Southeast, Inc.
Mothers & Others for Clean Air in North Carolina Project
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
For general operating support of its work in North Carolina
Climate Voices
Clean Energy for Boone Campaign Project
East Coast Greenway Alliance
Achieving Sustainability Leadership as the Great Trails State Project
Environment NC Research and Policy Center, Inc.
Protect North Carolina's Coast Project
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc.
For general operating support of its operations in North Carolina
Extra Terrestrial Projects, Inc.
Weaving New Millennial Networks for a Climate Resilient North Carolina Project
Forest Guild
Forests to Faucets: Protecting North Carolina's Bottomland Hardwood Forests, Ecosystem Services, and Clean Water Project
GreenFaith
North Carolina Good Steward Campaign Project
Mountain Valleys RC&D Council
Ivy River Partners Project
MountainTrue
For general operating support
NC Advanced Energy Corporation
Counting Energy Efficiency Toward Air Emission Reductions Project
NC Coastal Federation, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Council of Churches
Interfaith Power & Light Project
NC League of Conservation Voters Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
Solutions from the Land
North Carolina Agricultural and Forestry Adaptive Management Project
Southeastern Coastal Wind Coalition, Inc.
For general operating support
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Promoting Energy Efficiency in North Carolina Project
Southern Environmental Law Center
For general operating support
Sustainable Sandhills
For general operating support
Taxpayers for Common Sense
Reforms for Resilient Communities in North Carolina Project
Western NC Green Building Council
Green Gauge Project
PUBLIC EDUCATION
Appalachian State University
ASU Department of Curriculum & Instruction's North Carolina Math Recovery Elementary Mathematics Specialist Network Project
Asheville City Schools Foundation
For general operating support
Buncombe County Board of Education
Advancing Teacher Leaders for Common Core Instruction in Buncombe County Project
Center for Applied Linguistics
Education Connections: Teacher Leadership Program Project
Digilearn Digital Learning Institute
Digital Learning Scholars Project
Durham Public Schools Council of PTAs
Education Alliance Project
East Durham Children's Initiative
For general operating support
Foundation for the Carolinas
Read Charlotte Project
Montgomery County Schools
ACCESS-A Culture Creating Effective Systems for Success Project
NC New Schools Project, Inc.
Rural Innovative Schools Project
Public School Forum of NC
For general operating support
SOCIAL JUSTICE & EQUITY
Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, Inc.
For general operating support
Campbell University, Inc.
Campbell Law Community Clinic Project
Center for Participatory Change, Inc.
For general operating support
Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County
To support the collaborative of the Western Workers’ Center, Coalicion de Organizaciones Latino-Americanas, Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County, and Nuestro Centro
Legal Services of Southern Piedmont
For general operating support
Museum of the New South, Inc.
NUEVOlution Latinos and the New South Project
NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
For general operating support
NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault
For general operating support
NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
For general operating support
NC Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
For general operating support
NC Freedom Monument Project
For general operating support
Pisgah Legal Services
For general operating support
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
For general operating support
Rape Crisis Center of Catawba County, Inc.
For general operating support
Thirtieth Judicial District Domestic Violence-Sexual Assault Alliance, Inc.
For general operating support
STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY
Alliance of North Carolina Black Elected Officials
For general operating support
Children First Communities in Schools of Buncombe County, Inc.
For general operating support
City of Greensboro
Greensboro Participatory Budgeting Project
Common Cause Education Fund
Millennial Voter Engagement Project
Democracy NC
For general operating support
Institute for Southern Studies
For general operating support
People For the American Way Foundation
Democracy Building in North Carolina Project
Southern Vision Alliance
For general operating support
MISCELLANEOUS
Bennett College
Research Fellowships for Bennett Students to Study at the Anna Julia Cooper Center at Wake Forest University Project
Council for Children's Rights, Inc.
Child Human Trafficking Victims Representation Pilot Project
MDC Inc.
For general operating support
NC Child
For general operating support