All Grants

The mission of Strengthening the Black Church Committee is to assist in the increase in the number of vital black church congregations in the North Carolina Conference and help reverse the membership decline in the United Methodist Church by funding outreach events and resource centers.

A multi-year program championing empowerment and success within your community with an emphasis on uplifting Black girls and/or women

To provide support for local United Methodist African American congregations doing/planning innovative ways to recover, preserve and/or present their histories; or to individuals doing historical research or projects on African Americans in Methodism.

Intended to preserve historic Black houses of worship—either with active congregations and nonactive congregations—and advance ongoing preservation activities while strengthening capacity for historic congregations, and preservation and community organizations to steward, manage, and better utilize their historic structures

Empower HBCUs with the resources to protect, preserve, and leverage their historic campuses, buildings, and landscapes, and ensures these symbols inspire and educate future generations

It's mission is to support organizations addressing societal disparities experienced by African Americans and to serve as a center for African American philanthropic development.

Is your church ready to step beyond charity and into solidarity and justice ministries? Peace with Justice grants are available to UMC churches and affiliated nonprofits

Designed to empower and equip preservationists and stewards with funding and technical support to preserve the material heritage, innovation, and legacy of modern architectural sites designed by Black architects

Support "arts and..." projects developed by partners (one arts organization or artist, and one non-arts organization) harnessing the power of collaboration
- Aim to facilitate partnerships between the art community and other sectors, bringing new opportunity, increased effectiveness, and greater depth to the collective work

Provide high quality stage performance and residency experiences and expand the program's statewide outreach, particularly in underserved counties

Support professional artists to pursue projects that help with their development

Install a public art postcard mural to increase visitor traffic as a future destination

Offer support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to groups/communities with rich and dynamic artistic and cultural contributions to share that are underserved

Work with artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences
- Support approaches that place the arts and artists at the center of thriving, healthy communities

Primary purpose is to make it easier for Dare County based groups to hold events driving overnight visitation to Dare County's Outer Banks than peak months

Fund professional and artistic development

Support arts providers as they re-engage with the public through a combination of programming, marketing, rebuilding staff capacity, and facilitating safety protocols
- Includes two application tracks: audience re-engagement and audience inclusion

Dare County Tourism Board’s Tourism Impact Grant (TIG) program was established to financially assist Dare County Governmental Units and other Non-profit Organizations with programs or services needed due to the impact of tourism on the County

Provide technical assistance and training for small rural businesses (fewer than 50 new workers and less than $1 million in gross revenue)

Offers assistance to business owners in securing capital, competing for a contract, identifying a strategic partner or becoming export-ready

By partnering with economic development agencies, electric cooperatives are supporting job creation and businesses seeking to start, expand or relocate

Offers rebate program on gas appliance purchase and gas discounts for qualifying businesses

Duke Energy provides free energy assessments to small businesses and recommends lighting, refrigeration and HVAC

Invests in the professional advancement and career growth of high potential, professional women, with a particular focus on women of color who are further underrepresented in leadership positions

To help jewelry entrepreneurs create a strategy to kick-start their careers

Strengthen the supports that allow minority and women-owned small businesses to become more financially sustainable and resilient by eliminating structural barriers to growth, and improving knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation within the small business ecosystem

Dedicated to recognizing women impact entrepreneurs at the forefront of scientific and technological innovation. Open to women entrepreneurs from any country and sector, this award highlights disruptive solutions built around unique, protected, or hard-to-reproduce technological or scientific advances that require heavy R&D, a long commercialization cycle, high capital intensity, technology risk, and complexity

Will enable the company to validate key assumption(s) and catalyze the development of the business

Awarding women’s business grants

Rebate program for energy-efficient upgrades to energy-efficient equipment and save every day

Enhancing small businesses with unique ideas

Grants focused on improving quality of life in Dominion Energy service area

Focused on strengthening and uplifting communities throughout North Carolina

Focus areas:
- Vibrant Economics
- Climate Resiliency
- Justice, Equity and Inclusion

The program is designed to help congregations successfully navigate the capital project process through training, technical assistance, planning support, and matching capital grants

This new national grant program is a $50 million commitment over the next five years that will directly support community and technical colleges and community based nonprofit organizations to recruit and train 50,000 new job-ready tradespeople to help fill the skilled trades gap

Provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas

Provide technical assistance to socially-disadvantaged groups through cooperatives and Cooperative Development Centers

Supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience

Partner with others to help change state-level systems to overcome systemic and structural barriers. Four priority areas: Advancing public education, fostering a healthy and sustainable environment, promoting social and economic justice, strengthening democracy

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS) will solicit applications to award approximately $1.5 million in Community Economic Development (CED) discretionary funds to Community Development Corporations (CDCs) to stimulate new CED project development through administrative capacity building

Looking for businesses offering products or services designed to close gaps of access, outcome or opportunity for communities that have been underrepresented or underserved

Verizon provides funding to non-profit organizations dependent on project and need

Directed toward non-profits and governmental organizations that demonstrate the Credit Union philosophy of people helping people

Emerge from CIRD programs with greater capacity and a wealth of resources to lead their community through current and future design challenges

Support the people and organizations who help small towns across America thrive and grow

Provides funding to cultural organizations to support the implementation of public humanities projects

A discretionary cash-grant program that allows the Governor to respond quickly to competitive job-creation projects

For economic development projects aligned with the Golden Leaf priority areas:
1. Job Creation and Economic Investment
2. Workforce Preparedness
3. Agriculture

Designed to support organizations and programs that benefit the communities where large numbers of our associates live and work

Focused on rebuilding and revitalizing communities across the country. Each year from 2022 through 2026, consumers are given the opportunity to nominate a community space in their hometown – such as a neighborhood garden, park or community center – to receive a physical improvement or renovation

Proceeds from the Downtown Revitalization Grant may be used for a wide range of purposes, so long as that purpose advances the downtown revitalization goals of the member community and has the approval of the city/town manager

Provides local governments with grants and expert guidance to improve economic vitality and overcome the unique challenges many rural communities face

Help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for preservation projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector

Develops older buildings in your community into assets to attract new or expanding businesses with the state's Building Reuse Program

Projects that develop, coordinate and expand direct producer-to-consumer markets to help increase access to and availability of locally and regionally produced agricultural products

Provides funding to North Carolina family farms, and community organizations such farmer associations and farm co-ops to develop new and innovative agricultural projects which will increase farm profits

To enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops defined as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture)

Provides grants to organizations for education, mentoring and technical assistance initiatives for beginning farmers and ranchers

Fund projects to encourage the preservation of qualifying agricultural, horticultural, and forestlands to foster the growth, development, and sustainability of family farms

To support young and beginning farmers and ranchers start up and grow their businesses with a flexible funding opportunity each spring

Donate orchards where the harvest will best serve communities for generations

Encourage and promote conservation planning and conservation practice demonstrations in urban, suburban, and other small-scale type agricultural operations

To promote the domestic maple syrup industry

For farm infrastructure projects that increase farm viability and do one or more of the following: support community food sovereignty efforts, preserve traditional and cultural farming practices, or support farmers’ local food economies. Also, to promote the domestic maple syrup industry

Focuses on strengthening the viability and resilience of regional food economies through collaboration and coordination

For local farmers needing cooperative advertising assistance

To help in their endeavors and to further the future of agriculture in our region

To promote health education, disease prevention, and provide direct medical and health services has been, and continues to be the priority of the Foundation’s granting philosophy

To provide funding for special projects and capital needs that focus on Education, Human/Community Service, Healthcare/Rehabilitation and Arts/Culture/History

To support institutions and organizations that care for uninsured, at-risk, low income, and minority patients in their communities

Battlefield Restoration Grants (BARE) support preservation partners across the country in their effort to restore eligible American Revolution, War of 1812, and Civil War sites to day-of battle conditions

Empowers recipients to modernize and enhance battlefield education and interpretation

Assist state and local governments and, when applicable, their nonprofit partners acquire and preserve eligible Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War battlefield lands

Helps to build the capacity of existing preservation organizations and encourages collaboration among these organizations by providing grants for mentoring and other peer-to-peer and direct organizational development and learning opportunities

Provides financial assistance for projects that preserve historic objects and sites

URC works towards diversifying the nominations submitted to the National Register of Historic Places. URC Projects include surveys and inventories of historic properties associated with communities underrepresented in the National Register, as well as the development of nominations to the National Register for specific sites

Designed to advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as sites, museums, and landscapes representing African American cultural heritage

Provides grant funding for historic preservation projects across the state of North Carolina

LSTA grants are awarded in response to specific needs of public, academic and community college libraries. These federal funds are investments that help libraries deliver relevant and up-to-date services to their communities

Recognize literary works by immigrant and refugee writers

Provides funding on a competitive basis to projects that sustain, restore and enhance our nation's fish, wildlife and plants, and their habitats

To Improve conditions for collection storage and display, improve systems and resilience for collections, In-depth preservation studies and plans

Benefits residents (especially those age 50 or older) in categories such as walkability and community gardens

Support efforts that focus on improving the caliber, effectiveness and availability of amateur baseball and softball programs across the United States and internationally

Provides small grants to fund quick-action projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages

For projects furthering science, health and education in their local communities

Supports the work of charitable organizations serving the communities within statewide network of affiliate foundations

To support organizations and programs for which a relatively small amount of funding might make a large difference

Provides practical support for efforts that promote safe, responsible use of OHVs, educate the public on proper recreational land use and wildlife conservation practices, and protect appropriate and sustainable access to public lands

Projects that develop, coordinate and expand local and regional food business enterprises that engage as intermediaries in indirect producer to consumer marketing to help increase access to and availability of locally and regionally produced agricultural products

To help underserved communities create safe and inclusive public skateparks for youth

Supporting and helping people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice

Offers environmental education and/or preservation and developmental and educational opportunities for children and teens

Help develop funding priorities within seven focus areas to support their communities: affordable housing; education and youth development; environmental stewardship; human services; civic and cultural growth; workforce development; and diversity, equity and inclusion

Supporting healthcare, higher education, human services and community

Seven programs and two leadership programs reflect the Foundation’s commitments to education and research, knowledge-based leadership, and the dissemination of ideas to the public

For projects that transform overburdened and underserved communities into healthy, thriving communities capable of addressing the environmental and public health challenges they have historically faced, as well as current and future challenges

To support small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, policy development and institutional planning, technology enhancements, professional development, community outreach, audience development, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation

LSTA grants are awarded in response to specific needs of public, academic and community college libraries. These federal funds are investments that help libraries deliver relevant and up-to-date services to their communities

Supports museums of all sizes and disciplines to undertake projects that strengthen their ability to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, professional development, community debate and dialogue, audience-focused studies, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation

Designed to build the capacity of African American museums and support the growth and development of museum professionals at African American museums
- The AAHC program supports projects that nurture museum professionals, build institutional capacity, and increase access to museum and archival collections at African American museums and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

To support projects in glazing applications for preservation and exhibition of museum and library collections

To support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of North America, and research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition

Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions — such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities — improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections

Promote the preservation of collections in libraries, museums, archives, and historic sites; monuments, memorials, and outdoor art; archaeological sites and collections; and historic and cultural architecture

Supports the creation and preservation of the cultural and scholarly record—vast and ever-expanding—that documents society’s complex, intertwined humanity

Invests in sustaining and advancing one of the most diverse and widespread networks of science museums in the country. These museums are critical resources for schools and communities in providing learning experiences in and out of the classroom that enhance science literacy

To Improve conditions for collection storage and display, improve systems and resilience for collections, In-depth preservation studies and plans

Provides funding on a competitive basis to projects that sustain, restore and enhance our nation's fish, wildlife and plants, and their habitats

Funding is to undertake oral history research in situations of crisis in the United States and internationally

Recognize literary works by immigrant and refugee writers

Focuses primarily on in-person community engagement and completion of appropriate stewardship activities

The sustainable, "shovel-ready" projects leverage local funds to meet recreational trail and trail-needs, in an effort to provide low infrastructure economic development opportunities through natural resource tourism