The Nantahala Health Foundation works with local
organizations in Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties and
the Qualla Boundary and explores cutting-edge programming to both build
capacity and address the six areas that measure community health: education,
economic stability, healthcare, neighborhood and built environment, and social
and community context.
Our Board of Directors is addressing two priorities in its inaugural year:
First, we seek to understand and identify the challenges that create
disparities within our community. Second, we strive to create a stronger
network of existing nonprofits and organizations by investing in their
strategies and supporting initiatives that address root causes of health
inequalities.
The Nantahala Health Foundation looks forward to collaborating with community
change agents in innovative organizations with ingenious programming to improve
health for all people in our community. We welcome your applications for
projects achieving outcomes for residents in our geographic counties of
service in the following areas:
Education
- Career Technical Education: specifically, innovative projects that prepare individuals for the workforce, particularly by teaching job-readiness and retention skills other than technical skills for all ages.
- Early Childhood Education initiatives:
- assisting expansion of availability of childcare facilities,
- increasing childcare affordability (such as scholarships for low-income families on the waiting list for voucher support), and,
- increasing the availability of summer camps and after school programs.
Access to Health Care
- Increasing access to health care, behavioral health services, medication assistance, and dental care.
Poverty
- Alleviating poverty
- Ending food insecurity for older adults
- Providing or increasing emergency housing shelters
Quality of Housing
- Increasing provision of home repair or rehabilitation for people in need
- Providing access to mold remediation services
Special Interest Category:
- Transportation. This has been identified as a primary need in our region which impacts all of the social determinants of health. We are looking to fund initiatives with either unique solutions and/or current efforts to provide transportation, especially those with collaborative efforts among human service or medical providers.
We are currently unable to fund:
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Individuals
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Political purposes, including lobbying
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Out-of-area projects or organizations
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Grants prohibited by IRS regulations
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Applications will close on September 30th at 5pm