Grantmaking

Our Priority: Youth and Young Adult Well-being

We are committed to partnering with local organizations best aligned with our mission to support youth and young adults struggling to thrive in far Western North Carolina.

Through our 2025 grant cycle, we plan to invest in projects designed to significantly move the needle on issues that impact health and well-being for children from age 5 to young adults age 24.

If your organization has something like that in mind, we look forward to hearing more about it.

Pre-qualifying application questions for the 2025 grant cycle will be accepted April 7 – May 8. 

YYA Information Sessions

Join us to learn more about our 2025 Youth and Young Adult grant opportunity. We will discuss eligibility, pre-application questions, site visits, final award decision, the procedure for accepting an award, and monitoring and reporting your results.

Tuesday, April 15

10:30 a.m. – Noon

Graham County Public Library

Wednesday, April 16

10 – 11:30 a.m.

Clay County Health Department

Friday, April 18

10 – 11:30 a.m.

Southwestern Community College

Burrell Building, Room A

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Our Health and Well-being Investments

Our region’s residents deserve to live in exceptionally safe homes, earn a living at exceptional businesses, and learn what it takes to get ahead in life at exceptional schools. That’s why we are proud to have invested in programs like these:

Hinton, 2022, Healthy Homes, home repair
Photo from Hinton Center

Building Safer Homes

Everyone deserves to live in a safe home. Safe and affordable housing plays a pivotal role in shaping individual and community health outcomes.

That’s why we’ve partnered with communities and other philanthropic organizations to ensure vital home-repair funding is being invested in our area.

Housing support for children currently in and aging out of foster is another priority.

Building Businesses

  • Farm-to-table partnerships
  • Downtown Revitalization programs
  • Public and personal transportation options
  • Expanded childcare services so parents can continue to work
  • Bi-lingual career and professional development to meet the needs of marginalized families
  • Public WiFi expansion
  • Building a Community Health Hub
Photo from United Christian Ministries
Graham County Greenhouse
Photo from Graham County High School

Building Education

  • Support for our students through a variety of STEM/STEAM opportunities, as well as exploration of environmental, construction, gardening, sustainable horticulture, business management, and marketing career paths
  • Establish and expand local nursing, EMS training, health sciences, and optometry programs
  • Short-term student housing for rural nursing fellowship programs
  • Fulfilling unmet staffing and infrastructure needs in our schools

Building Workforce

Now + Next offers current and future leaders the opportunity to develop leadership skills that will keep them engaged in our communities and provide them with the organizational and collective tools they need to collaborate effectively with others and grow the people they serve, resulting in a richer, more inclusive and connected community.

Now, Next, spring 2024, cohort
Nantahala Health Foundation photo

For Grant Seekers

First-time users of our grant management portal should create a new account. User accounts are designed to be individual records and SHOULD NOT be shared within agencies. As platform administrators, we reserve the right to disable accounts if we discover evidence of two or more individuals using one account.

Creating an account on Nantahala Health Foundation’s grants management platforms indicates your willingness to receive email updates from our organization. You are free to unsubscribe from these updates at any time; however, once unsubscribed you will no longer learn of grant opportunities via our email communications.

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For Grant Recipients

For Awardees: Before the Foundation releases funds to an organization, the organization must review and approve a written agreement. Once the funds are released, successful applicants must submit written progress reports as specified in each grant agreement. Organizations that have received a previous grant from the Foundation must first meet all reporting requirements in order for an additional application to be considered.