Our fall newsletter was at the printer when Hurricane Helene swept through Western North Carolina, leaving a changed region and a critical role for CFWNC in relief and recovery.
If you have been following our efforts, you know that we have been the recipient of a wave of generosity from individuals, corporations, fundraisers, community foundation colleagues and funding partners that allowed us to award critical emergency grants beginning on October 7. As we go to print, more than $39 million has been donated to the Emergency and Disaster Response Fund (EDRF) and more than two-thirds of that has been deployed to nonprofits and public agencies across the region. We are humbled by the support and the trust as well as the ways our communities, friends and neighbors rallied to support each other. It’s been a difficult and inspiring time.
You can read more about the unbelievable work of our nonprofit network and public agencies in this newsletter.