Early Childhood Development Recent Grants

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 TEACCH™ 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