Tag: grantassessments2023
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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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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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Neighbors in Ministry – Rise and Shine
Rise and Shine is an extremely successful 25 year program focusing onserving economically disadvantaged K-12 student “scholars” inTransylvania County with after-school programs including a hot mealupon arrival, homework help and guided reading comprehension andenrichment activities through an extensive group of committed staffand volunteers. These programs include STEAM programming – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics…
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Earthshine Mountain Programs
Earthshine Earthshine Nature Programs was founded in 2010 by naturalist Steve O’Neil. Earthshine Mountain Program’s mission is to provide a unique learning environment and opportunities for everyone that will foster a lasting interest, respect, love and hopefully greater conservation of wildlife, wild places, and the fragile environment that supports us all. Earthshine Mountain Programs works…
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Quebec Community Club
Quebec Community Club (QCC) is located in Lake Toxaway and serves thoseprimarily in the Quebec community in Rosman, Lake Toxaway and Sapphire. They offer BINGO night once a month, Family Movie Night in partnership with a local church, a weekly farmer’s market, WNCSource Meal Program for seniors M-F with activities and educational talks. The QCC…
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Transylvania County Schools Educational Foundation (TCSEF)
Transylvania County Schools Education Foundation Transylvania County Schools Education Foundation (TCSEF) mission is topromote, develop, and encourage public and private support of the Transylvania County Schools. TCSEF has been able to cultivate partnerships and relationships throughout Transylvania County to build a team, that has been named the Tiger Impact Group, to support Rosman Elementary, Middle…
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Young Life Camp
Young Life is a group of staff and volunteers committed to building relationships with youth to earn their trust. Young Life employs active ministries that reach out to students at Brevard and Rosman High Schools, together with WyldLife for children at Brevard and Rosman Middle Schools and Brevard Academy. In addition, YoungLives targets teen-aged mothers in Transylvania County. Lake Toxaway Charities partners…
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Blue Ridge Community Health Services
Blue Ridge Community Health Services is a nonprofit, federally qualified health center, providing quality healthcare, including dental and mental, accessible and affordable for all. In 2020, Lake Toxaway Charities approved a grant to make a single payment on a loan so Blue Ridge Community Health Services could continue its efforts. In October of 2012, BRH…
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Brevard College
Brevard College is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action. A baccalaureate, residential, church-affiliated institution, Brevard College is situated in the southern Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina. True to our Motto: Cognosce ut prosis – learning in order to serve, the programs and…