Category: 2025 Grant Assessment
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Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation
Blue Ridge Community College is committed to providing accessible, affordable, high-quality education and workforce training that empowers individuals and strengthens the long-term economic vitality of Transylvania County and the surrounding region. For students who are balancing work and family responsibilities, navigating financial hardship, or stepping into higher education for the first time, Blue Ridge works…
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Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels Brevard has been delivering hot, nutritious midday meals to homebound seniors and adults with disabilities in Transylvania County since 1978 — including every holiday. In 2025, the organization delivered 20,495 meals to 65–90 clients per week, powered almost entirely by approximately 65 volunteer drivers who use their own vehicles and follow the…
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Through the Trees
Through the Trees is the only nonprofit in the region dedicated to bridging the digital divide — providing refurbished devices and internet access to low-income and vulnerable residents of Transylvania County. In a world where job applications, telehealth appointments, school assignments, SNAP applications, and housing forms are all conducted online, reliable technology access has become…
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Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas
The mission of the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas (VHMC) is to honor our nation’s veterans, to educate the public about our country’s military history and the contribution of our servicemen and women, and to preserve important and unique historic artifacts. The VHMC reflects a love of country and gratitude to those who serve…
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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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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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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…