Where a person lives significantly impacts their health through environmental conditions, access to resources, and social dynamics. These and other factors influence physical and mental health, with disparities often seen in low-income and marginalized communities.
Those facing barriers within their neighborhood and built environment often ask themselves:
Our work to remove barriers to healthy neighborhoods and other built areas includes investments in these organizations:
Clay County Transportation
$37,000
To grow the county’s public transportation department and to equip vans with safety measures during the COVID pandemic.
$24,375
Healthy Homes Initiative
To support the Tribe’s work to repair residents’ homes and ensure occupants’ safety.
$2,500
31 Days of Giving Holiday Match Program
To provide wrap-around housing and educational services to children in need.
Four Square Community Action
$50,000
To support the community’s most vulnerable by making home repairs to ensure health and safety. Also, housing insecurity became an increased need following the September 2024 disaster.
$32,000
Inaugural Award
To support the organization’s work to help those transitioning from substance addiction back into society by purchasing reliable transportation.
$143,750
To support the community’s most vulnerable by making home repairs to ensure health and safety.
$16,875
Healthy Homes Initiative
To support the community’s most vulnerable by making home repairs to ensure health and safety.
Macon County Housing
$55,000
Healthy Homes Initiative (2 Cycles)
To support the community’s most vulnerable by making home repairs to ensure health and safety.
$35,000
To support the community’s most vulnerable by making home repairs to ensure health and safety.
$135,000
To support the community’s most vulnerable by making home repairs to ensure health and safety.
$43,538
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To expand network and computer access to their constituents; to purchase network devices to expand the libraries’ outdoor WiFi range to allow for better connection to our faster internet; and to purchase laptops for remote learning and curbside use during the COVID pandemic.
$6,200
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To improve the environmental factors to make clients more comfortable at their safe-haven shelter.
$6,500
Inaugural Award
To purchase TVs, DVDs, and other technology devices with Internet connectivity to support victims of domestic violence residing at the REACH of Clay County emergency shelter during the COVID pandemic.
$75,000
Inaugural Award
To improve transportation options for clients at their safe-haven shelter.
Reignighting Hope
$10,000
Hurricane Helene Relief
To support the organization’s ability to address the amplification of homelessness and substance abuse following the September 2024 storm.
$77,600
To support the community’s most vulnerable by making home repairs to ensure health and safety and to house those impacted by the September 2024 disaster.
Rotary Club of Franklin – Daybreak
$5,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To repair a Little Tennessee Greenway pavilion located near Rotary Circle, thus providing the public with an additional outdoor meeting space within Macon County during the COVID pandemic.
Rotary Club of Highlands
$22,500
Healthy Homes Initiative
To support the community’s most vulnerable by making home repairs to ensure health and safety.
$45,000
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To fill a funding gap required to expedite the launch of the Southwestern NC Housing Consortium.
$8,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To upgrade their facility’s Internet, WiFi, and telephone, thus ensuring community residents and visitors to Graham County have access to these vital services during the COVID pandemic.
Swain County Recreation Deapartment
$100,000
Inaugural Award
To support improved accessibility enhancements for the public swimming pool.
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