Tag: grantassesments2020
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Lake Toxaway Community Club
Grant funding from Lake Toxaway Charities has contributed in recent years to fortifying this community gathering place with several upgrades including: expanding the children’s playground, repairs to the picnic shelter, adding additional lighting for evening activities. New plastic play structures were added for toddlers, and two climbing walls and a wooden tree house plus a tire…
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Meals on Wheels
Lake Toxaway Charities approved grant requests in 2020 & 2021 to fund Meals on Wheels programming. Meals on Wheels delivers hot lunches daily to the homes of house-bound seniors in the upper part of Transylvania County. Volunteers make these deliveries to recipients who are pre-enrolled with the program manager. Other funding is provided by the…
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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 is an agency working to stabilize, support and improve the lives of children and families in Transylvania County. The Children’s Center provides space for supervised visitation for families when children are in DSS custody, one-on-one mentoring programs for improving parenting skills, emergency assistance and many school programs. The Children’s Center strives to…
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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 plays a vital role in serving the impoverished, disadvantaged, and food-insecure residents of Transylvania County. With a warm, accepting, and non-threatening environment, they serve an impressive number of over 45,000 meals annually and distribute approximately 900 boxes of food for weekend home preparation. As the only community kitchen providing daily hot…
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Creating a Family
This national non-profit has a local chapter in Brevard. Its role is to support adoptive, foster and kinship families. Foster and kinship parents (most often grandparents) are on the front line of child welfare caring for neglected and abused children. These children are often left with both physical and emotional scars from childhood trauma.…
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Tiger Impact Group (TIG)
The Tiger Impact Group (TIG) first formed in 2017 as a collaboration between Lake Toxaway Charities, the Transylvania County Schools Educational Foundation (TCSEF) and Transylvania County Schools to provide a variety of supportive programs and services in the Rosman district schools. Lake Toxaway Charities designs TIG programs in conjunction with teachers, administrators, and community members…
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Weekday Children’s Program of Brevard’s First United Methodist Church
Weekday Children’s Program of Brevard’s First United Methodist Church’s mission is to provide a quality Christian child care program for children ages 1-5. Lake Toxaway Charities awarded a grant in 2020 to finance a new playground. The playground is accessible to all people and children of the community.
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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…