The A.J. Fletcher Foundation

Provides support to a broad range of organizations. Primary focus traditionally has been on education, communications, and the arts. They also consider a wide variety of social issues and charitable endeavors, such as technologies, organ donation, and adolescent pregnancy prevention.

The Cannon Foundation

The Cannon Foundation provides support for a variety of projects in North Carolina, 40 percent going to education, with other funds going to healthcare, social services, religion, athletics, arts and humanities, and the environment. Does make brick-and-mortar grants.

The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro

Seeks to build community through grantmaking and initiatives, making grants for cultural research, the arts and humanities, community building, and healthcare.

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina

Benefits 18 mountain counties and includes more than 550 charitable funds that total more than $87 million which support nonprofit organizations and scholarships. Area nonprofits have received more than $2 million in funding over the past 22 years. The New Horizon Grants include advancing the arts, assisting children, families and the elderly in need, building community and economic vitality, enhancing our natural environment, improving educational opportunities, and promoting access to quality healthcare.

The Foundation Center

An online resource that collects, organizes, and communicates information about U. S. philanthropy. It provides education and training on the grant seeking process and provides information and services through its Web site, print, and electronic publications.

Foundation for the Carolinas

The largest community foundation in the Carolinas works to improve the community by awarding grants for key community needs. Include several cities and counties surrounding Charlotte. Grants can come from unrestricted sources or restricted funds such as the African American Community Foundation Grants, Children's Medical Fund, County Community Foundation Grant Programs, Cole Foundation Endowment, Medical Research Grants, and Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium Grants.

Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust

Grants awarded exclusively in North Carolina. The Health Care Division provides grants to serve the health and medical needs of people who may be in need of medical care or assistance for financial reasons. The Poor and Needy Division provides grants to improve the welfare of the people of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County with emphasis on those who need assistance with basic necessities for financial reasons.

Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation

Supports people in the Southeast to build just and caring communities that nurture people, spur enterprise bridge difference s. foster fairness, and promote civility. Three funding areas: Grassroot. Leadership Development, Community Problem Solving, and Enterprise and Asset Development. The Foundation supports all grantees peer-led training opportunities to pursue organizational development goals. Special emphasis on community-building that seeks to:

• Assure the well being of children, youth and families;
• Bridge the faultiness of race and class; and
• Invest in communities' human and natural resources.

North Carolina Center for Non-profits

Provides assistance and information on practices in nonprofit management, leadership, communication, funding, technology, evaluation, advocacy, and collaboration. Enhances public recognition of the importance of the nonprofit sector.

North Carolina Community Foundation

A statewide community foundation with 49 community affiliates serving 50 counties across North Carolina. Emphasis varies from area to area, but is very inclusive.

North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center

The Rural Center is the leading resource for rural people and communities. It serves the state’s 85 rural counties and develops, promotes, and implements sound economic strategies to improve the life of rural North Carolinians. Special focus on people with low to moderate incomes and communities with limited resources. Has a number of grant and loan programs including water and sewer, microenterprises, capital access, community economic development, and day care. Its Rural Resource Guide is a valuable tool for grant seekers, and it has an extensive data bank that is readily accessible online, also.

North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission

To assist tobacco farmers, quota holders, persons engaged in tobacco-related businesses, displaced individuals from tobacco-related employment, and tobacco product-related businesses through grant programs that support, foster and encourage a strong agricultural economy in North Carolina. The NC Tobacco Trust Fund Commission provides and manages grants that encourage a strong agricultural economy to qualifying non-profits, local and state governments and other groups.

North Carolina water, wastewater and stormwater funding sources

Several organizations are providing opportunities for funding North Carolina water, wastewater and stormwater. Click here for more information about each funder's program, purpose or use of funds, application dates, and contact information..

The Triangle Community Foundation

A publicly supported nonprofit organization serving Wake, Durham, Orange, and Chatham counties. Its Community Investment Grant Process provides grants to local charitable organizations in varying interests such as the arts, environment, human services, and education. All proposals are welcome.

The Warner Foundation

Helps disadvantaged people and communities improve their economic circumstances and works to promote racial harmony. Strong preference given to applicants and projects that do a. many as possible of the following: new initiatives, expansion of successful projects, organizational capacity-building, ongoing projects that meet the priorities.

• Help disadvantaged individuals and communities achieve economic self-sufficiency and independence
• Offer the tools to improve financial circumstances by valuing and building upon strengths and skills
• Provide access to new economic opportunities
• Bring together community members of different ethnicity and economic classes to work together as peers to address a social issue and improve their community in a pragmatic way
• Integrate activities that foster better racial understanding in community-improvement efforts
• Demonstrate a sustained commitment to the welfare of a particular population or community
• Make significant, long-term changes in people's lives.

The Winston-Salem Foundation

The Foundation's efforts are inspired by four core values: respect, integrity, generosity, and excellence. The Foundation's committed to helping communities help themselves. Areas of interest include youth, health, older adults, public interest, human services, building social capital, arts and culture, faith-based giving, and education/recreation.

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc.

Makes grants only in North Carolina. The Foundation places a higher value on developing new programs than on sustaining well-established and well-funded ones. Foundation gives special attention to certain focus areas - community economic development, the environment, pre-collegiate education, issues affecting minorities, and issues affecting women. Also maintains a strong "miscellaneous" category of grantsmaking.

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