The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has selected the recipients of its Fall 2016 grant awards.
On November 19, 2016, Trustees voted to approve 183 grants totaling $8.8 million to organizations across North Carolina. This includes a grant to three North Carolina food banks in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.
Organizations awarded grants in the Fall 2016 cycle are listed below in alphabetical order.
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project
Growing the Local Food Economy of Western North Carolina project
Atkins (S.G.) Community Development Corporation
For general operating support of the Enterprise Center Expansion
Black Family Land Trust, Inc.
For general operating support
Bountiful Cities Project
For general operating support
Bountiful Cities Project
Urban Agriculture Alliance project
Central Park NC
For general operating support
Cleveland County Community Development Corporation
For general operating support
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Forsyth County, Inc.
A Model of Place-Based Asset Building Approach Phase II project
Eagle Market Streets Development Corporation
Block-By-Block Industries project
Eagle Market Streets Development Corporation
For general operating support
Feast Down East, Inc.
For general operating support
Foundation for the Carolinas
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Opportunity Task Force project
Global Opportunities Center
For general operating support
Goler-Depot Street Renaissance Corporation
Workforce Technology Pathway 2020 project
Graham Revitalization Economic Action Team
For general operating support
Green Rural Redevelopment Organization
For general operating support
Greensboro Community Development Fund
For general operating support
IDA and Asset Building Collaborative of NC, Inc.
For general operating support
iNvictus Forward Outreach
EMERGE (Entrepreneurship, Mentoring, Economic Development, Research, Growth in Business(es) and Education) project
Just Economics
Grassroots Equity Alliance Leadership Development project
Just Economics
For general operating support
Legal Aid of NC, Inc.
Home Defense and Consumer project
Lexington Housing Community Development Corporation
For general operating support
Lydia's House in Southeast
People for a Better Aurora/Richland Township Project in Aurora, NC
Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History
For general operating support
MDC, Inc.
For general operating support
Mountain BizCapital, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Community Development Initiative, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Pottery Museum
For general operating support
NC State University
Center for Environmental Farming Systems: Local Food Policy Council of NC Achieving Equitable Community Economic Development project
Northern Moore Family Resource Center, Inc.
Sustaining and Managing Economic Development Collaborations project
Onaben
Native Women and Youth Workforce Readiness and Entrepreneurship Initiative project
Orange County Partnership for Young Children
Transplanting Traditions Community Farm: Expanding Asian Refugee Agricultural Entrepreneurship project
Patterson School Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
Queen City Forward
For general operating support
Reinvestment Partners
For general operating support
Reinvestment Partners
De-zombification project
Residents Council of Asheville Housing Authority Inc.
For general operating support
Roanoke Economic Development, Inc.
For general operating support
Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA
Farmer Leadership Development project
Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA
For general operating support
Rural Economic Development Center, Inc.
Rural Counts: Message and Mobilization project
Shalom Project, Inc.
Circles Winston-Salem project
Smith (Johnson C.) University
Center for Renewable Energy & Sustainability's Green-to-Green: Economic Development through Urban Agriculture Project
Sow Much Good, Inc.
For general operating support
Stecoah Valley Arts, Crafts & Educational Center, Inc.
For general operating support
Support Center
For general operating support
TCK Providence, Inc.
For general operating support
Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional
For general operating support
Tyrrell County Community Development Corporation
For general operating support
Uniting NC, Inc.
Code the Dream project
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Kenan Institute: Asset Development and Job Creation in the Sandhills project
Urban League of Central Carolinas, Inc.
For general operating support
Urban League of Central Carolinas, Inc.
City Startup Labs Foundry project
Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry, Inc.
For general operating support
Winston-Salem Urban League
For general operating support
ENVIRONMENT
Alliance for a Responsible Swine Industry
For general operating support
Alliance for Climate Education, Inc.
Engaging Youth on Climate Change in North Carolina project
Asheville-Buncombe Sustainable Community Initiatives, Inc.
For general operating support
BikeWalk NC
Complete Streets Campaign project
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Inc.
For general operating support
Cape Fear River Watch, Inc.
For general operating support
Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy
CMLC Consolidation with Pacolet Area Conservancy project
Conservation Fund
Community Economic Development and Conservation Coalition Implementation project
Conservation Trust for NC
Connecting People to Conservation through Coordinated Communications project
Conservation Trust for NC
Land for Tomorrow project
Dan River Basin Association
Water Quality Improvement in North Carolina project
Dogwood Alliance, Inc.
Our Forests Aren't Fuel project
East Coast Greenway Alliance, Inc.
Achieving Sustainability Leadership as the Great Trails State project
Environmental Quality Institute
For general operating support
Extra Terrestrial Projects, Inc.
Weaving New Millennial Networks for a Climate Resilient North Carolina project
Foothills Conservancy of NC, Inc.
Catawba-Wateree Clean Water Initiative project
Fresh Energy
Southeast Energy News North Carolina Reporter project
Haw River Assembly, Inc.
For general operating support
Hiawassee River Watershed Coalition, Inc.
For general operating support
MountainTrue
For general operating support
NC Advanced Energy Corporation
Counting Energy Efficiency Toward Air Reductions project
NC Environmental Justice Network
For general operating support
NC Health News, Inc.
Tracking North Carolina's Environmental Health project
NC League of Conservation Voters Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
NC State University
NC Clean Energy Technology Center: Increasing Diversity & Educating Policy Makers in Eastern North Carolina Opportunity Project
New River Conservancy
NC Citizen Science Water Quality Monitoring project
Piedmont Land Conservancy
Funding for Land Protection Specialist Position project
Renewable Energy Transition Initiative
For general operating support
Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help
Blacks and Browns: Addressing Injustices project
Sound Rivers, Inc.
For general operating support
Southeastern Coastal Wind Coalition, Inc.
For general operating support
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Promoting Energy Efficiency in North Carolina project
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Blue Ridge Forever project
Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards
Building a Diverse Constituency for Protected Public Lands project
Sustainable Sandhills
For general operating support
West End Revitalization Association
For general operating support
Western NC Green Building Council
Green Gauge Implementation project
Youth Empowered Solutions YES
Diversifying the Movement: Building the Next Generation of NC Rural Leadership project
PUBLIC EDUCATION
Child Care Services Association
Early Educator Compensation in North Carolina project
East Durham Children's Initiative
For general operating support
Foundation for the Carolinas
Read Charlotte project
Guilford Education Alliance, Inc.
For general operating support
Henderson County Public Schools
Aspiring Administrators Academy project
Hill Center
Increasing Access to Quality Reading Instruction for High-Need Students and Public School Districts project
MeckEd
For general operating support
NC Early Childhood Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Education Collaborative
For general operating support
NC State University
College of Education's Northeast Leadership Academy: Northeastern NC Educator Leadership Pipeline Initiative project
Profound Gentlemen, Inc.
For general operating support
Public School Forum of NC, Inc.
For general operating support
Rockingham County Partnership for Children
Racial Equity Coordinating Committee and Learning Community project
Say Yes To Education, Inc.
Post-Secondary Planning System: Communication project
Students for Education Reform, Inc.
For general operating support
Teach For America, Inc.
Education Leadership Force Development project
United Way of Forsyth County, Inc.
Forsyth Promise project
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
For general operating support of the Center for Civil Rights
University of North Carolina General Administration
North Carolina New Teacher Support Program project
Village of Wisdom, Inc.
Understanding Parent School Partnerships for Equity project
Wake Education Partnership
For general operating support
Winston-Salem Foundation
Reading Interventionists for Project Impact project
SOCIAL JUSTICE & EQUITY
Associación de Mexicanos en Carolina del Norte Amerxcan
Community Leadership Initiative project
Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, Inc.
For general operating support
Campaign for Southern Equality
For general operating support
Center for Community Transitions, Inc.
Salesforce Data Tracking project
Center for Participatory Change, Inc.
For general operating support
Community Building Initiative
Building Equity from the Inside Out project
Community Success Initiative, Inc.
For general operating support
Conservatives for Criminal Justice Reform
For general operating support
El Buen Pastor Latino Community Services
For general operating support
El Centro Hispano, Inc.
For general operating support
Equality NC Foundation
For general operating support
Farm Labor Research Project, Inc.
For general operating support for the North Carolina office
Franklinton Center, Inc.
Franklinton Center's Museum and Library project
Freedom Center for Social Justice
For general operating support
Friends of NC State Museum of Natural Sciences
RACE: Are We So Different? Exhibition project
Go Global NC Council, Inc.
Latino Initiative Policy and Community 2017 Program project
Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County
For general operating support
Jonesboro United Methodist Church
El Refugio Centro de Recursos Familiares /The Refuge Family Resource Center project
Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County
For general operating support for the El Camino Collaborative
Legal Services of Southern Piedmont, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Administrative Office of the Courts
NC Conference of District Attorneys Best Practices Committee project
NC Center on Actual Innocence
For general operating support
NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc.
Building with, not for: Addressing Sexual Violence through Movement Building, Civic Engagement, and Capacity Development project
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 Council of Churches
From Hostility to Hospitality: Immigration and People of Faith project
NC Farmworkers Project, Inc.
Farmworker Advocacy Network project
NC FIELD, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Freedom Monument Project
North Carolina Freedom Park project
NC Society of Hispanic Professionals, Inc.
For general operating support
Pisgah Legal Services
For general operating support
SHIFT NC
For general operating support
Southeast Asian Coalition
For general operating support
The Family Violence Prevention Center, Inc., d/b/a Interact
Regional Spanish Domestic Violence Hotline project
Thirtieth Judicial District Domestic Violence-Sexual Assault Alliance
For general operating support
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Institute for the Study of the Americas: Building Integrated Communities project
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Racial Equity Network II project
YWCA High Point
Latino Family Center project
STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY
Action Institute NC
For general operating support
Alliance of North Carolina Black Elected Officials
For general operating support
Blue Ribbon Commission on the Prevention of Youth Violence
For general operating support
Carolina Public Press, Inc.
For general operating support
Center for Public Interest Research
Black Civic Engagement Innovations in North Carolina project
Children First Communities in Schools of Buncombe County, Inc.
For general operating support
Common Cause Education Fund
For general operating support of its North Carolina office
HOPE (Helping Organize People Effectively)
For general operating support
Institute for Southern Studies, Inc.
For general operating support
Institute of Political Leadership, Inc.
For general operating support
MomsRising Education Fund
For general operating support of its operations in North Carolina
National Association of Latino Elected Officials Naleo Education Fund
Increasing Latino Electoral Participation in North Carolina project
NC Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
Youth Engagement Project
Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods
Walnut Tree Community Organizing and Revitalization Initiative project
Orange County Justice United in Community Effort, Inc.
Developing Low Income Leaders to Strengthen Democracy project
ParentsTogether Foundation
Using Mobile Media to Engage and Activate North Carolina Parents project
People Alliance Fund
For general operating support
Southern Vision Alliance
For general operating support
Spirit In Action, Inc.
We The People: Working Together project
Working America Education Fund
For general operating support of its North Carolina office
Working Films, Inc.
For general operating support
MISCELLANEOUS
Council for Children's Rights, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Child
For general operating support
NC State University Foundation, Inc.
Institute for Emerging Issues: North Carolina Service Year Initiative project
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Morehead Planetarium & Science Center: Understanding the American South project