Your Local Partner for Giving
What's the best future you can imagine for WNC?
In FY 2019, in partnership with donors, CFWNC awarded more than $20 million in grants, an all-time high, bringing total grantmaking to more than $254 million.
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The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina inspires philanthropy and mobilizes resources to enrich lives and communities in Western North Carolina.
- 1,100+ Philanthropic Funds
- $327M Total Assets September 2019
- $20M+ Grants to Nonprofits in Fiscal Year 2019
- $254M+ Total Grants Since Inception in 1978
Friends, Neighbors, Philanthropists
"Our motivation is to do what's right - not for us - but for the community."
- Houck and K.B. Medford, Fundholders
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The Community Foundation will be Closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday November 28, 2019. CFWNC will reopen Monday, December 2, 2019 at 9:00am.
28 November 2019