
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.
- Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP)
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $45,000
Fiscal Year 2024
to expand access to farm to preschool resources and programming across 18 counties of WNC through the Farm to Preschool Project. - Yancey County Schools
Yancey
Grant Amount: $27,565
Fiscal Year 2024
to provide training to Exceptional Children staff, teachers, and teacher assistants through the Asheville TEACCHâ„¢ program. - 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.
Early Childhood Development Grant History