
Smart Start of Transylvania County was awarded $100,000 to halt the loss of childcare slots in Transylvania County and increase capacity by supporting efforts to create more spaces in childcare countywide. Photo courtesy of SSTC.
- Blue Ridge Partnership for Children
Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey
Grant Amount: $180,000 over two years
Fiscal Year 2023
to sustain and evolve the AMY Parent Education Collaborative, a collaborative, regional approach to the provision of parent education for children prenatal to age 14. - Children & Family Resource Center
Buncombe, Henderson, and Transylvania
Grant Amount: $80,000 over two years
Fiscal Year 2023
to manage the implementation of Regional Circles of Security, an attachment-based parenting curriculum. - Region A Partnership for Children
Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Swain
Grant Amount: $63,163
Fiscal Year 2023
to continue and expand its early literacy coordination work. - Smart Start of Transylvania County
Transylvania
Grant Amount: $100,000 over two years
Fiscal Year 2023
to halt the loss of childcare slots in Transylvania County and increase capacity by supporting efforts to create more spaces in childcare countywide. - Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP)
Haywood, Jackson, and the Qualla Boundary
Grant Amount: $45,621
Fiscal Year 2022
to expand access to farm-to-preschool resources and programming in rural WNC through the Growing Minds Farm to Preschool Project. - Children First/Communities In Schools of Buncombe County
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $70,000 over two years
Fiscal Year 2022
to sustain and grow its capacity to staff and mobilize the WNC Early Childhood Coalition. - Mount Zion Community Development
Buncombe, Henderson, and Madison
Grant Amount: $50,000
Fiscal Year 2022
to implement strategies to reduce minority infant mortality and improve quality of early childhood experiences of the children through Project NAF (Nurturing Asheville and Area Families) participants. - Blue Ridge Partnership for Children
Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey
Grant Amount: $72,000 over two years
Fiscal Year 2021
to extend into Mitchell and Avery counties the accomplishments of the Yancey Alliance for Young Children, a collective impact initiative. - Grace Community Church
McDowell
Grant Amount: $14,811
Fiscal Year 2021
to build a playground that meets North Carolina Division of Child Development and Early Education standards so that the Church can open a preschool for the community. - Irene Wortham Center
Buncombe
Grant Amount: $28,800
Fiscal Year 2021
to enrich the early childhood development program at its Early Learning Center by establishing a hands-on garden and sustainability program in collaboration with Asheville Farmstead. - Mountain Area Health Education Center
Buncombe County
Grant Amount: $54,496
Fiscal Year 2021
to support the salary of one of the SistasCaring4Sistas Community Based Doula positions for one year. - Smart Start of Transylvania County
Transylvania
Grant Amount: $75,000 over two years
Fiscal Year 2021
to support family resilience and social cohesion by establishing a virtual support and learning model. - Southwestern Child Development Commission
Haywood, Jackson, Macon, and Swain
Grant Amount: $150,000 over three years
Fiscal Year 2021
to support the Nurse Family Partnership.
Early Childhood Development Grant History