Humans are social by nature. Our relationships with family, friends, co-workers, and community members are important to our survival. People with healthy relationships and opportunities to feel included are more likely to make healthy choices that lead to better mental and physical health.
Those facing barriers to social and community support often ask themselves:
Our work to remove barriers to access to social and community support systems includes investment to these organizations:
$12,500
Hurricane Helene Relief
To provide direct, trauma-informed counseling, crisis support, and psychoeducation for adult and child survivors of the September 2024 hurricane.
$5,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To support an outdoor hiking program, Club Summit, for children and youth and their adult mentors, thus introducing at-risk, underserved children to the value of spending time in their natural surroundings, increasing their physical fitness level, and instilling long-term, healthy habits around leisure activity and nutrition choices.
$7,210
To provide iPads with Internet connectivity to expand opportunities for access to health and education for victims of domestic violence during the COVID pandemic.
Clay County Senior Center
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To purchase tables, chairs, and a storage caddy system for the county’s Senior Center to ensure the continuation of services and socializing during the COVID pandemic.
$2,100
31 Days of Giving Holiday Match Program
To support their work to help people break the chains of addiction and find hope and forgiveness.
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To support the department’s effort to purchase equipment to enable secure and seamless mobility of the department’s workforce during the COVID pandemic.
$30,000
Inaugural Award
To support the agency’s need to hire a Housing Case Manager.
$12,500
To support the center’s need to remediate mold in one of its revenue-generating structures, while at the same time developing a training video to teach others how to safely perform the same procedure.
$3,845
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To purchase and install protective barriers to increase safety at three congregate meals sites serving Jackson County seniors during the COVID pandemic.
$52,500
To support the agency’s work to fund a human trafficking specialist and a victim support advocate with a goal of creating a multi-disciplinary task force to strengthen victim response.
$10,000
Hurricane Helene Relief
To support your organization’s ability to address the amplification of homelessness and substance use in your community following the September 2024 storm.
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To address accessibility challenges and health inequities of more than 600 children and adults at greater health risks of negative health outcomes due to sedentary lifestyles, thus ensuring this population has access to health and wellness programming targeting priority issues.
$3,458
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To support their work 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 for home delivery.
$12,500
Hurricane Helene Relief
To address the increased need for services caused by the September 2024 storm for those the organization supports living in Cherokee, Graham, Macon, Jackson, and Swain counties and on the Qualla Boundary.
$26,068
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To renovate the Swain County Extension Teaching Kitchen.
$2,500
31 Days of Giving Holiday Match Program
To support the work they do with terminally ill children and their families.
$115,000
To expand their Adventure Leader program, allowing the organization to expand services to at-risk youth; and to address the need for a stabilized restorative justice continuum and to provide positive role models for the youth of the area by adding a staff member who specializes in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and Mental Health First Aid.
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