Natural and Cultural Resources Recent Grants

Photo courtesy of Mountain BizWorks' Craft Your Commerce

  • 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.
  • 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' (EBCI) Qualla Boundary.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Asheville Area Arts Council
    Buncombe
    Grant Amount: $30,000
    Fiscal Year 2021
    to support a series of one-time benefit performances in Pack Square Park that align with the City of Asheville’s public space initiative.
  • Asheville GreenWorks
    Buncombe
    Grant Amount: $8,500
    Fiscal Year 2021
    to engage HunterKemper Consulting to build its capacity to maintain financial stability through increasing staff and board member skills in fund development planning.
  • Brevard Music Center
    Transylvania, Henderson, and Buncombe
    Grant Amount: $15,000
    Fiscal Year 2021
    to expand outdoor dining areas, shift to “grab-n-go” meal preparation, and create additional outdoor learning spaces to create a safe learning and living environment for students and faculty during the 2021 Summer Music Institute and Festival.
  • Center for Craft
    WNC Region
    Grant Amount: $20,000
    Fiscal Year 2021
    to assist with construction of the Cherokee Basketry Public Art Parklet to be located at 67 Broadway Street, Asheville.
  • Conserving Carolina
    Henderson, Transylvania, and Polk
    Grant Amount: $7,500
    Fiscal Year 2021
    to engage Public Interest Management Group to facilitate a 10-year strategic business plan.
  • Conserving Carolina
    Henderson and Transylvania
    Grant Amount: $20,000
    Fiscal Year 2021
    toward purchase, transaction, due diligence, and project management expenses associated with acquiring a 19-mile abandoned railway.
  • John C. Campbell Folk School
    Cherokee and Clay
    Grant Amount: $17,000
    Fiscal Year 2021
    to catalog the school's current collection, to acquire artists’ work and historical artifacts for education and outreach efforts, and for a health and safety preparedness project to make pandemic-driven operational changes necessary on the 290-acre campus.

Natural and Cultural Resources Grant History