Natural Resources Recent Grants

Photo courtesy of The Village Green

  • American Rivers
    WNC Region
    Grant Amount: $150,000 over two years
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to build a queue of ready-to-fund dam removal projects leading to design and implementation stages of river restoration efforts.
  • Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
    WNC Region
    Grant Amount: $50,000
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to support collaborative efforts to analyze land connected to the biologically-rich Blue Ridge Parkway to help prioritize landowner outreach and voluntary land conservation.
  • Camp Grier
    McDowell
    Grant Amount: $44,000
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to build out a Salesforce customer relationship management system necessary to manage volunteers, donors, customers, and partners and thereby increase constituent engagement and stewardship of public lands in WNC.
  • Haywood Waterways Association
    Haywood
    Grant Amount: $8,500
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to engage Taproot Consulting for strategic planning.
  • Mainspring Conservation Trust
    Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Swain, Jackson, and Macon
    Grant Amount: $8,500
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to engage Solid Ground Consulting for strategic planning.
  • MountainTrue (as fiscal sponsor)
    Jackson
    Grant Amount: $51,000
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to support development of a Long-Term Conservation Plan for Jackson County’s District 4, which includes six Townships: Caney Fork, Canada, River, Mountain, Hamburg, and Cashiers.
  • Foothills Conservancy
    Rutherford
    Grant Amount: $47,000
    Fiscal Year 2024
    to cover a portion of the acquisition costs for the permanent protection of 1,711 acres in the Pinnacle Mountains section of the South Mountains located in Rutherford County.
  • The Village Green
    Jackson, Macon, and Transylvania
    Grant Amount: $11,300
    Fiscal Year 2024
    to fund unforeseen expenses associated with a quasi-judicial hearing process in which The Village Green is advocating to preserve and protect its properties from potentially significant environmental degradation related to mountainside developments in Cashiers.
  • Wildlands Network (as fiscal sponsor for the Safe Passage Fund Coalition)
    Haywood
    Grant Amount: $30,000
    Fiscal Year 2024
    to further advance wildlife habitat connectivity in Western North Carolina.