Category: 2026 Grant Assessment
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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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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…
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Earthshine Mountain Programs
Earthshine Nature Programs (ENP) is a Transylvania County-based nonprofit with a dual mission: inspiring a lasting love of wildlife and wild places through hands-on nature education, and building community resilience through innovative renewable energy solutions. Through live wildlife programs featuring animal ambassadors, guided hikes, environmental education, and demonstrations of solar energy technology, ENP brings its…
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Quebec Community Club
The Quebec Community Center serves as an essential gathering place for residents in the western part of Transylvania County, providing free space for a wide range of community needs. The center is available to between 225–250 families in the area, and roughly a third of that population uses the facility at various times throughout the…
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Young Life Camp
Young Life Transylvania County has been serving the county’s middle and high school students for more than 17 years, building relationships with adolescents through consistent, in-person presence at every middle and high school in the county. The organization operates three distinct programs: Young Life and WyldLife, which serve high school and middle school students respectively,…
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Blue Ridge Community Health Services
Blue Ridge Health (BRH) is a Federally Qualified Health Center that has served western North Carolina for more than 60 years, providing integrated medical, dental, and behavioral health services to patients regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. As the only FQHC offering comprehensive integrated care in Transylvania County — a designated Health…
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Mediation Center
The mission of the Mediation Center is to create opportunity from conflict. The Mediation Center provides conflict resolution services to help people move through difficult and stressful times and resolve conflict without violence and abuse. For adults, they provide community and family mediation services to resolve disputes between neighbors, family members, co-workers, and others. Lake…
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Hunger Coalition of Transylvania County
The Hunger Coalition of Transylvania County addresses food insecurity through a model that combines direct food access with nutrition education — treating food not just as relief, but as a tool for long-term health. Operating five weekly mobile markets, distributing meal kits to 96 families each week, and partnering with seven local pantries, the organization…