Tag: grantassessments2024
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Centro Comunitario Hispano Americano
Centro Comunitario Hispano-Americano, known as El Centro, exists to support Hispanic families in Transylvania County by removing the language, educational, and cultural barriers that limit access to opportunity. Through bilingual, culturally responsive programming, El Centro serves youth and families in a trusted environment — meeting them where they are and helping them build the skills…
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Anchor Baptist Church & Ministries – Food Bank
Anchor Baptist Church and Ministries has been serving the people of Transylvania County since 1984, operating one of the area’s most active and longstanding food distribution programs. From a 17,500 square foot warehouse in Pisgah Forest, Anchor runs multiple weekly distributions — including a dedicated monthly program for senior citizens meeting poverty income guidelines, a…
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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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Handshake America
Since 2011, Handshake America has been partnering with local high schools to identify student-athletes who demonstrate grit and coachability. These students are teamed up with successful professionals who help translate lessons from the playing field to success in life. They coach — not mentor — these students on what success looks like and how to…
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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,…