The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has selected the recipients of its Fall 2015 grant awards. On November 20, 2015, Trustees voted to approve 83 grants totaling $7.5 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 429 active grants.
Organizations awarded grants in the Fall 2015 cycle are listed below in alphabetical order.
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project
Local Food Campaign: Building the Local Food Economy of Western NC project
Atkins (S. G.) Community Development Corp.
For general operating support
Carolina Common Enterprise
For general operating support
Center for Responsible Lending
Responsible Lending in NC: Protecting Economic Opportunity Project
Conservation Fund
Resourceful Communities Program Project
Durham Community Land Trustees, Inc.
Building a Piedmont Community Development Collaborative Project
Durham Congregations in Action
REAL Durham: Our Liberation is Bound Up with One Another Project
Eagle Market Streets Development Corporation
Block-by-Block Industries Project
Friends of Hyde County's Historic 1854 Courthouse
For general operating support
Grameen America, Inc.
Grameen America Charlotte Project
IDA and Asset Building Collaborative of NC, Inc.
For general operating support
Latin American Economic Development Corporation of the Piedmont Atlantic Region
For general operating support
Made in Durham
For general operating support
Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc.
For general operating support of its NC work
NC Association of Black Lawyers' Land Loss Prevention Project
For general operating support
NC Catch
For general operating support
NC Community Development Initiative, Inc.
For general operating support
NC Institute of Minority Economic Development
For general operating support
NC State University
Center for Environmental Farming Systems' Developing Local Food Markets and Leadership at NC Universities for Historically-Underserved Populations Project
Queen City Forward
ImpactU Project
Reinvestment Partners
For general operating support
RFD CDC
NETworX: Securing Well-Being Together Project
Swiss Bear Downtown Development Corporation
The Entrepreneur Center of Craven County and The CUBE Project
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
American Indian Center's NC Native Asset Coalition Project
Working Landscapes
For general operating support
ENVIRONMENT
American Rivers
For general operating support of the NC office
BikeWalk NC
Complete Streets Campaign Project
Civilian Exposure
For general operating support
Conservation Trust for NC
Preparing NC Land Trusts to Ensure Resilient Landscapes Project
Dan River Basin Association
For general operating support
Dogwood Alliance, Inc.
Our Forests Aren't Fuel Project
Haw River Assembly, Inc.
For general operating support
Hiawassee River Watershed Coalition, Inc.
Strengthening the Nantahala-Pisgah Forest Partnership Project
Land Trust for the Little Tennessee
Mountain Partners Coalition's Breaking the Impasse at Nikwasi Mound Project
NC Coastal Land Trust
Gullah Geechee Conservation Initiative Project
NC Environmental Justice Network
For general operating support
NC Health News, Inc.
Tracking NC's Environmental Health Project
NC Justice Center
Energy Efficiency Project
NC Wildlife Federation
For general operating support
Sound Rivers, Inc.
For general operating support
Sustain Charlotte
For general operating support
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Environmental Finance Center's Jump-Starting On-Bill Energy Efficiency Programming in NC Project
WakeUP Wake County, Inc.
Planning for Growth Sustainably: Expanding Public Transit and Ensuring Clean Water and Effective Land Use Project
Wilderness Society
Building Support and Consensus around Wildland Protection for the Nantahala-Pisgah National Forest Project
Winyah Rivers Foundation, Inc.
Advocacy for Water Quality Protection in the Lumber River Basin Project
Yadkin Riverkeeper, Inc.
For general operating support
EDUCATION
Child Care Services Association
Examining Child Care Quality and Accessibility for Children Birth-Three in NC Project
Guilford Education Alliance, Inc.
Say Yes to Education Project
Hoke County Schools
Low Wealth District Consortium: Leandro Case Project
Johnston County Schools
The Implementation Initiative of The Innovation Project
NC Alliance for School Leadership Development
Distinguished Leadership in Practice Project
NC New Schools, Inc.
NC Large District Superintendent Consortium Project
Pitt County Schools
Star Teacher Academy Project
Public School Forum of NC
Center for Educational Opportunity Project
Public Schools First NC, Inc.
For general operating support
University of North Carolina General Administration
NC New Teacher Support Program
SOCIAL JUSTICE & EQUITY
Carolina Justice Policy Center
For general operating support
Coalicion Latinoamericano
For general operating support
Community Success Initiative, Inc.
For general operating support
El Centro Hispano, Inc.
For general operating support
El Pueblo, Inc.
For general operating support
Exodus Foundation Org
For general operating support
NC FIELD, Inc.
For general operating support
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
For general operating support
Women AdvaNCe
For general operating support
YWCA-High Point
Building Healthy Latino Communities Project
DEMOCRACY
Action Institute NC
For general operating support
Blueprint NC
For general operating support
Common Cause Education Fund
For general operating support of its NC office
Elon University
Campus Election Engagement Project
Gaston Together: Communities of Excellence
Civic Leadership Project
Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation
Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program Project
NALEO Education Fund
Increasing NC Latino Civic Participation Project
NC A. Philip Randolph Institute, Inc.
For general operating support
NC State University Foundation, Inc.
For general operating support for the Institute for Emerging Issues
Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods
For general operating support
ParentsTogether Foundation
ParentsTogether NC Project
People's Alliance Fund
For general operating support
School for Conversion, Inc.
Fusion Coalitions Project
Southern Documentary Fund
For general operating support
Triangle Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods
For general operating support
Working America Education Fund
For general operating support of its NC office
Working Films, Inc.
For general operating support