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- Carolina Climbers Coalition
Henderson
Grant Amount: $35,350
Fiscal Year 2024
to create sustainable access for hikers, climbers, and visitors to Raven Rock and Hickory Creek Boulders, located near Gerton, NC. - Polk County Film Initiative
Buncombe, Jackson, Polk, and Rutherford
Grant Amount: $26,950
Fiscal Year 2024
for students and interns to participate in programming tied to the Tryon International Film Festival as a way to broaden interest in media arts and arts career opportunities. - RiverLink
Buncombe, Henderson, Haywood, Madison, Transylvania, Yancey, Mitchell, and Avery
Grant Amount: $50,500
Fiscal Year 2024
to implement a multi-channel public awareness and digital marketing campaign. - Eagle Market Street Development Corporation (as fiscal sponsor for the Catawba Vale Collaborative)
McDowell
Grant Amount: $225,000 over three years
Fiscal Year 2023
to support internal capacity needs related to the Catawba Vale Collaborative’s efforts to bring equitable community development to Old Fort in McDowell County. - Foothills Conservancy of WNC
McDowell
Grant Amount: $31,000
Fiscal Year 2023
to complete the final pre-construction work necessary to develop the 10-mile Wolfpen Loop Trail on permanent conservation lands in McDowell County. - Madison County Arts Council
Madison
Grant Amount: $50,000
Fiscal Year 2023
to develop the final engineering and architectural designs for Phase 2 renovations of the Arts Center. - Mainspring Conservation Trust
Swain and Jackson counties and the Qualla Boundary
Grant Amount: $40,000
Fiscal Year 2023
to support the completion of due diligence efforts needed to acquire and remove the Ela Dam, an aging dam and reservoir in Swain County, NC, adjoining the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' Qualla Boundary. - Toe River Arts Council
Mitchell and Yancey
Grant Amount: $10,000
Fiscal Year 2023
to support the marketing and promotion of its Cynthia and Edwina Bringle documentary to capture the twin sisters' artistic role and influence in the Toe River Valley and the broader craft world. - The Wilderness Society
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $15,000
Fiscal Year 2023
to provide additional facilitation support for the Nantahala-Pisgah Forest Partnership during the critical first 18 months of implementation of the US Forest Service Nantahala-Pisgah National Forest management plan. - Wildlands Network (as fiscal sponsor for the Safe Passage Fund Coalition)
Haywood
Grant Amount: $30,000
Fiscal Year 2023
to improve communications and outreach work in order to raise financial and public support for mitigation measures to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions along a 28-mile stretch of Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge. - Camp Grier (as fiscal sponsor for the Catawba Vale Collaborative)
Avery, Burke, and McDowell
Grant Amount: $52,500
Fiscal Year 2022
to support the design and construction of a series of monuments that combine stone architecture with archaeologically-generated stories at specific locations along a new 42-mile trail expansion on USFS land surrounding the Town of Old Fort. - Green Built Alliance
Buncombe
Grant Amount: $8,500
Fiscal Year 2022
to engage with Taproot Consulting in the development of a three-year strategic plan. - Local Cloth
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $49,742
Fiscal Year 2022
to launch Blue Ridge Blankets and, thereby, to support and develop the region’s fiber-arts economy, particularly within the 100-mile region surrounding Asheville. - Mountain BizWorks
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $36,300
Fiscal Year 2022
to increase the geographic reach and economic benefits of the Craft Your Commerce program by building on the successes and lessons of the three-year pilot.
Natural and Cultural Resources Grant History