Natural Resources Recent Grants

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  • Friends of the WNC Nature Center

    WNC Region

    Grant Amount: $35,000

    Fiscal Year 2025

    to purchase native pollinator plants for the new, immersive butterfly garden at the Western North Carolina Nature Center.

  • The Pisgah Conservancy

    Avery, Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, McDowell, Madison, Mitchell, Rutherford, Transylvania, Yancey

    Grant Amount: $60,000

    Fiscal Year 2025

    to fund a crew leader for the Invasive Plant Management Crew, fully dedicated to working in Pisgah National Forest.

  • 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.

  • CareReach

    WNC Region

    Grant Amount: $8,500

    Fiscal Year 2025

    to create a strategic planning process, which will include staff, community stakeholders, and a new board of directors.

  • Foothills Conservancy

    Burke, McDowell, and Rutherford

    Grant Amount: $8,500

    Fiscal Year 2025

    to engage Metamorphic Consulting in strategic planning.

  • MountainTrue

    WNC Region

    Grant Amount: $8,500

    Fiscal Year 2025

    to engage Into Relationship for Management Training.

  • 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.