Generosity Multiplied
Spring 2025 - Grants totaling $124,130
- $10,000 to Asheville Creative Arts as fiscal sponsor for Swannanoa Communities Together to help families secure and retain housing.
- $2,500 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western North Carolina to recruit, screen, train, and place mentoring volunteers with youth.
- $10,000 to Black Mountain Counseling Center to provide individual and group counseling and other mental health services.
- $8,450 to Black Mountain Volunteer Firefighters Association for a disaster training program for citizen volunteers.
- $5,000 to Blue Ridge Public Radio to replace an aging transmitter and improve a transmission tower.
- $9,500 to Charles D. Owen Middle School for iPads and microscopes.
- $10,000 to Christmount Christian Assembly to restore critical infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Helene.
- $10,000 to Hammer and Heart to provide home repairs for low-income homeowners.
- $9,180 to Hand in Hand of the Swannanoa Valley to provide basic needs and educational resources to students from low-income families.
- $10,000 to Helping at Risk Kids to address the urgent needs of homeless and foster children whose families are recovering from Hurricane Helene.
- $5,000 to Literacy Together to expand youth and adult literacy programming in the Swannanoa Valley.
- $10,000 to Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County to purchase wholesale food for meal preparation for homebound seniors.
- $3,500 to RiverLink to bring high-quality freshwater science lessons to schools.
- $10,000 to Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry to support the development of a health clinic that will include a mobile unit.
- $5,000 to Waypoint Adventure to provide adventure education programming for public school students with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities.
- $6,000 to White Horse Black Mountain to provide daytime music programs for senior citizens until a new center can be rebuilt.
Funds supporting Grantmaking in Black Mountain - Swannanoa Valley
Buckner Family Endowment Fund
Helen S. and Jerry M. Newbold, Jr. Endowment Fund
Standaert Family Endowment Fund
Forbes Fund for Black Mountain-Swannanoa Valley