Category: 2021 Grant Assessment
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western North Carolina (BBBSWNC) creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Through carefully matched relationships between young people and caring adult or high school mentors, BBBSWNC provides the consistent guidance, encouragement, and positive role modeling that helps children build confidence, strengthen academic engagement,…
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North Toxaway Baptist Church Food Bank
The North Toxaway Baptist Church Food Bank was established in 2005 to provide for those in need in the local area, distributing food twice a month. In 2015, the Food Bank teamed with Manna Food Bank in Asheville, paying a small delivery fee and a portion of costs for the purchased food. Volunteers from the church…
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The Children’s Center of Transylvania County
The Children’s Center of Transylvania County works to protect children, strengthen families, and build a more resilient community through frontline prevention services for child abuse, neglect, family violence, and trauma. The need in Transylvania County is significant: the county’s child maltreatment report rate of 65.8 per 10,000 children is well above the statewide rate of…
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Transylvania Vocational Services
TVS provides day programming for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with a focus on enrichment, community engagement, preparation for employment, and skills for independence. Lake Toxaway Charities grants help TVS enhance art activities, create areas for peace and tranquility, and promote learning and engagement. Lake Toxaway Charities supported TVS in 2020 and 2021 with…
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Bread of Life
The Bread of Life is Transylvania County’s only soup kitchen, providing free daily hot meals and pantry groceries to neighbors experiencing food insecurity. Operating on a simple, no-barriers principle, the organization serves more than 1,100 hot meals each week and has more than doubled pantry distribution over the past year — reaching seniors on fixed…
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Creating a Family
Creating a Family is a national nonprofit dedicated to strengthening foster, adoptive, and kinship families and the professionals who support them. In Transylvania County, their work focuses on a population that often goes unseen: grandparents and other relatives who step in to raise children when parents are unable to safely do so. Across North Carolina,…
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Rosman High School
In 2021 Lake Toxaway Charities supported Rosman High School’s purchase of MiniOne systems starter kit. These systems are cutting edge, but easy for students to use, and they allow completion of labs within a normal class period. Students are more engaged in the material and REMEMBER the experience of actually solving a “crime” that applies…
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Mountain Roots
Mountain Roots is a local educational non-profit that provides discovery and outdoor learning experiences for youth, teens and their families in Transylvania County. It operates 50 weeks a year providing programs for every local public elementary school and summer day camps for children, as well as leadership and group development retreats and workshops for community…
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T.C. Henderson
Lake Toxaway Charities approved a grant to T.C. Henderson in 2020 and in 2021. The grants will help children add books to their home libraries or start to build one. The grants will also supply reading and math materials for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. T.C. is a beneficiary of the Tiger Impact Group (TIG)…
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Neighbors in Ministry – Rise and Shine
Rise & Shine has walked alongside working families in Transylvania County for 30 years, providing free, year-round after-school and summer enrichment programming to school-aged youth who need it most. All 32 scholars currently enrolled qualify for free or reduced school meals, and all programming is provided at no cost to students or their families. During…