Generosity Multiplied
Summer 2024 - Grants totaling $166,330
- Adults Working and Advocating for Kids Empowerment (AWAKE) - $10,000 for upgrades to the center’s interview room.
- The Bascom - $2,500 to support its Cashiers Creative Community Initiative that aims to expand accessible art programs in Cashiers.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western North Carolina - $8,000 to support recruiting efforts, programming, and salary of the program coordinator.
- Blue Ridge Free Dental Clinic - $10,000 for Dental Assistant staff costs.
- Boys & Girls Club of the Plateau - $10,000 to support the Read to Learn and Boost academic programs.
- Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society - $2,830 for its low-cost or free spay/neuter program.
- Center for Domestic Peace - $5,000 to support operating costs for Intervention Services, including staff and items needed by clients.
- Community Care Clinic of Highlands-Cashiers - $12,500 to provide healthcare access to low-income, uninsured residents of Cashiers and Highlands.
- Fishes and Loaves Food Pantry - $8,000 to purchase food for distribution in Jackson County and surrounding areas to people who fall below the Federal poverty line.
- Friends of Panthertown - $5,000 to support the Panthertown Valley Stewardship Project.
- Glenville-Cashiers Rescue Squad - $9,000 to purchase eight sets of extrication gear.
- Hampton School - $12,500 for operating costs at the only early childcare program caring for children as young as six-weeks old in Southern Jackson County.
- Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust - $8,000 to support its Environmental Education and Outreach programs.
- International Friendship Center - $10,000 to help with costs of dinners and childcare for participants in its English Language Learners classes.
- JAM Blue Ridge - $4,000 for program operating costs.
- MountainTrue - $9,000 to support development of a Long-Term Conservation Plan for Jackson County’s District 4.
- Pisgah Legal Services - $7,500 to support free civil legal assistance to low-income survivors of domestic violence and child abuse who live and work in and around Cashiers.
- Summit Charter School - $10,000 to support Summit's College Access program.
- The Village Green - $10,000 for amenity improvements at the Village Play playground.
- Vecinos Farmworker Health Program - $7,000 to provide access to culturally-aligned, bilingual, integrated primary and behavioral healthcare for farmworkers.
- Vision Cashiers - $2,500 for expanding and enhancing the current Cashiers Greenway Ramble.
- Western Carolina University - $3,000 to sustain its STEM Outreach Program at local schools.