The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has announced the recipients of its Fall 2019 State-Level Systemic Change Strategy grant awards.
Trustees voted to approve 51 grants totaling $5.3 million to organizations across North Carolina. Organizations awarded grants in the Fall 2019 cycle are listed below in alphabetical order. The next open cycle for State-Level Systemic Change grants will begin later this year.
ADVANCING PUBLIC EDUCATION
Alamance Citizens for Education, Inc.
Parent Engagement Program
Asheville City Schools Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
Center for Racial Equity in Education
For general operating support
Child Care Services Association
Think Babies North Carolina project
Communities In Schools of NC, Inc.
For general operating support
digiLEARN Digital Learning Institute
Micro-Credential Project
Higher Education Works Foundation
For general operating support
NC Alliance for School Leadership Development
North Carolina District Leaders Institute project
NC State Board of Education
Leading for Equity project
Student U
For general operating support
Students for Education Reform, Inc.
For general operating support for its North Carolina work
FOSTERING A HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
Alliance to Protect Our People and the Places We Live
For general operating support
Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
Coharie Intra-Tribal Council, Inc.
Great Coharie River Initiative project
Dan River Basin Association
For general operating support
Land-of-Sky Regional Council
Building Regional Resiliency project
Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help
For general operating support
Sound Rivers, Inc.
Waterkeepers Carolina project
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Supporting the Advancement of Electric Vehicles in North Carolina project
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Blue Ridge Forever project
Yadkin Riverkeeper, Inc.
For general operating support
PROMOTING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Alliance for Heritage Conservation
Museum of the Southeast American Indian Heritage Preservation Project
Asociación De Mexicanos En Carolina Del Norte
For general operating support
BYP100 Education Fund
For general operating support for its work in North Carolina
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, Inc.
North Carolina Funders' Collaborative for Strong Latinx Communities project
Community Success Initiative
For general operating support
Freedom Center for Social Justice
For general operating support
Mountain Area Health Education Center, Inc.
Mothering Asheville project
NARAL Pro-Choice NC Foundation
For general operating support
NC Community Development Initiative, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Department of Health and Human Services
Substance Use, Mental Health, and Criminal Justice: A Coalition Approach to Equitable, Evidence-Based Response project
NC Equal Access to Justice Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Harm Reduction Coalition
For general operating support
Operation Spring Plant
Creating a Healthy Environment for Change and Planting Seeds of Hope project
Piedmont Mediation Center, Inc.
Restoring Youth Coalition of North Carolina project
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Kenan Institute's NCGrowth Asset Development and Job Creation project
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Institute for the Study of the Americas' Building Integrated Communities project
STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY
Blueprint NC
North Carolina's Black Leadership and Organizing Collective project
Carolina Jews for Justice
For general operating support
Disability Rights NC
Access the Vote North Carolina Intern Project
DTH Publishing Corporation
Future of News Project
NC Asian Americans Together
For general operating support
NC Black Alliance, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Business Council, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Central University
North Carolina Public HBCU Participatory Redistricting Project (PRP)
NC Congress of Latino Organizations
For general operating support
Race Forward
North Carolina Advancing Racial Equity Learning Cohort project
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
School of Government's Lead for North Carolina project
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
For general operating support of the Center for Civil Rights
Working Films, Inc.
For general operating support
You Can Vote
Building Civic Leaders in Marginalized Communities project