Economic stability allows individuals and families access to necessities like food, housing, and healthcare, which are crucial for their overall well-being. Conversely, economic instability can lead to food insecurity, housing instability, and limited access to healthcare, ultimately impacting physical and mental health.
Those facing barriers to economic stability often find themselves asking:
Our work to remove barriers to economic stability includes investment in these organizations:
$25,000
Advantage Andrews
Through a partnership with Duke Energy Foundation, we offered an Advantage Andrews Downtown Revitalization grant to business owners to support their recovery efforts after the COVID pandemic.
$22,500
To provide community food sites funding to purchase local farm products that meet the needs of their programs; then, to support the increased need caused by the September 2024 natural disaster.
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To purchase food boxes and milk to address hunger in the community; to provide Internet as a community hotspot; and to repair the facility’s ceiling to ensure long-term service to the community.
$12,500
Hurricane Helene Relief
To support the increased food needs of clients after the September 2024 natural disaster.
$40,000
Inaugural Award
To support the organization’s work to provide food to homebound seniors.
Clay County Senior Center
$5,000
Senior Meal Expansion
To support the organization’s work to provide food to homebound seniors.
$12,500
Hurricane Helene Relief
To support the organization’s increased needs for food delivery after the September 2024 natural disaster.
$12,735
Senior Food Expansion
To support the senior center’s work to expand food delivery to homebound seniors.
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To support expanded hours for their cook to meet the increased need related to hunger in Swain County.
$5,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To support their work to meet an increased need for food delivery.
$12,500
To support their need to meet an increased need for food delivery.
Graham County Senior Center
$9,000
Senior Meal Expansion
To support the senior center’s work to expand food delivery to homebound seniors.
$50,000
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To address hunger through education and growing nutritious foods with an emphasis on the elderly.
$40,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To address housing needs in Jackson County.
$12,500
Hurricane Helene Relief
To address an increased need for food delivery after the September 2024 natural disaster.
$36,000
Youth and Young Adult Initiative
To connect at-risk youth to education, credentials, employment, housing, independent living skills, mental health, and substance abuse services to ensure their path to adulthood is as unburdened as possible.
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To support the expansion of International Friendship Center’s services, including bi-lingual career and professional development to meet marginalized families’ need for training and access to jobs with fair pay.
$8,989.50
To ensure the safety of meal deliveries to seniors and to increase the number of eligible clients served.
$10,000
Hurricane Helene Relief
To support the organization’s increased need for food after the September 2024 natural disaster.
$52,500
To support the organization’s efforts to help economically vulnerable residents of Macon County.
$40,000
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To support food distribution for individuals and families facing food insecurities in Macon County; to identify a permanent location to host a new MANNA Community Market site in the Nantahala Community.
$40,000
Inaugural Award
To support food distribution for seniors in need.
$12,500
Support for the Jackson Neighbors in Need Program, a community-based emergency assistance fund that assists low-income residents of Jackson County.
$25,000
Refresh Dillsboro
Through a partnership with Duke Energy Foundation, we offered a Refresh Dillsboro Downtown Revitalization grant to business owners to support their recovery efforts after the COVID pandemic.
$1,175
31 Days of Giving Holiday Match Program
Economic support for low-income church members in need.
$31,517
To provide reliable transportation to low-income residents of Jackson County.
$7,800
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To support the implementation of a WNC Farm-to-Table project.
$10,675
To install a commercial kitchen at the Swain County Senior Center, thus ensuring the staff’s ability to prepare healthy, hot meals available on-site and to expand home delivery.
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To support the Council’s work to provide nutritious, hot meals to Swain County seniors.
$5,000
Inaugural Award
To address food insecurity for seniors.
$35,000
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To support the collaborative’s work to address food insecurity via the purchase of a cargo van that will be used to transport nutritional food items from producers to low-income consumers and food pantry locations in Jackson County.
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