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Grants Awarded | 2000 Awards
 2000 Grants by County
 The Golden Leaf Foundation announced that the following North Carolina
non profits and government entities were awarded grants in the grant cycle ending October 16, 2000.
Click on the North Carolina map icon for each grant recipient to obtain a map of the counties
served by that grant.
| Grantee | Beaver Dam Community Center #1, Inc. |
| Contact | Daniel T. Kelly
Post Office Box 99
Hoffman, NC 28347
910-281-4476
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| Project Title | Community Education and Technology |
| Grant Amount | $10,260.00 |
| Project Description | The Beaver Dam Community Center is centrally located in a community where most citizens have been trained only for manufacturing jobs and seem to fear the "computer age" that is approaching our community quickly. Most school-aged children come from single-parent homes, and at times the parent(s) don't have time to listen to his/her child read, do homework, or work with a child in a specialty area that he/she may be having trouble with. This project would help bridge this gap in our community - the digital divide that will keep adults and youth from productive work in the 21st Century. Funds will be used to provide computers and training for residents of this low-income community. |
| Service Area |
 Richmond County
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| Grantee | Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation |
| Contact | Houck Medford - Executive Director
Box 10427 Salem Station
Winston-Salem, NC 27108
336-721-0260 |
| Project Title | The Scenery Economic/Marketing Project |
| Grant Amount | $36,000.00 |
| Project Description | This project proposes to continue primary research about views and translate results into useable products that encourage longer stays by visitors and local stewardship of scenic views within the Blue Ridge Parkway corridor. |
| Service Area |
Watauga County, Wilkes County, Avery County, Ashe County, Alleghany County |
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| Grantee | Cape Fear Community College |
| Contact | Robert Philpott - Dean, Vocational and Technical Education
411 N. Front Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
910-251-5109 |
| Project Title | Truck Driving Training for Bladen County - Joint project of Cape Fear Community College and Bladen
Community College |
| Grant Amount | $235,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this project is to provide displaced and underemployed citizens of Bladen County and surrounding counties an opportunity to acquire job skills in the truck driving profession. Additionally, it will be a source of skilled professionals to enhance the economic base of rural counties in southeastern North Carolina. Truck driving jobs are plentiful and well paying. This joint effort will provide an affordable and obtainable training opportunity. |
| Service Area |
Bladen County |
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| Grantee | Carolina Kenaf Farmers Foundation |
| Contact | Paul Skillicorn - Executive Director
109 SE 4th Street
Snow Hill, NC 28580
252-747-5157 |
| Project Title | Eastern Carolina Kenaf Initiative |
| Grant Amount | $265,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goal of the grant is to introduce, successfully, kenaf farming and its value-added processing into the state of
North Carolina in a context such that the vast majority of value-added earning derived from the new crop
contribute directly to the state's beleaguered farmers.
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| Service Area |
Greene County initially, and if project proves viable, expand to Wilson County, Wayne County, Lenoir County, Pitt County |
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| Grantee | Center for Participatory Change, Inc. |
| Contact | Paul Castelloe - Co-Executive Director
Post Office Box 9238
Asheville, NC 28815
828-299-9437 |
| Project Title | The Appalachian Small Farms Project |
| Grant Amount | $20,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goal of the grant is to form groups of small farmers that work to preserve small family farms across the region, through projects that they themselves plan, implement and evaluate.
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| Service Area |
Swain County, Clay County, Graham County, Cherokee County |
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| Grantee | Chinqua-Penn Foundation |
| Contact | Joe French - Chinqua-Penn Foundation Board Member
1944 Wentworth Street
Reidsville, NC 27320
336-349-8347 |
| Project Title | Development of a Farmer's Market in Rockingham County |
| Grant Amount | $63,450.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to create a Farmer's Market on the Chinqua-Penn Plantation. The market would serve the area farmers, citizens and students and function as a retail outlet for farm commodities. It will also be used to educate citizens and students on the necessity of farms and also function as a productive teaching tool for higher education. |
| Service Area |
Stokes County, Forsyth County, Guilford County, Alamance County, Rockingham County |
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| Grantee | Craven County Government |
| Contact | Harold Blizzard - County Manager
406 Craven Street
New Bern, NC 28560
252-636-6600 |
| Project Title | Eastern Regional Economic Feasibility Study for Agricultural Value - Added Processing, Marketing, Storing,
and Shipping |
| Grant Amount | $100,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goal of this project is to identify sustainable and profitable agricultural products that can be successfully produced, stored, marketed, and shipped from a central terminal in Eastern North Carolina to domestic as well as world markets. |
| Service Area |
Pitt County, Jones County, Onslow County, Pamlico County, Carteret County, Craven County |
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| Grantee | East Carolina University, Department of Geography |
| Contact | Holly Hapke - Assistant Professor
Brewster Building
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
252-328-1041 |
| Project Title | East Carolina University Rural Development Initiative |
| Grant Amount | $60,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of the grant are to: 1) provide specialized training for mid-career rural and community development decision-makers and other professionals so that they may acquire the diversity of skills necessary to better serve the needs of tobacco-dependent communities; 2) engage in collaborative applied research to support the efforts of the Carolina Kenaf Farmers Foundation in introducing a new alternative agro-industrial crop in eastern North Carolina; and 3) integrate and coordinate the region's rural development dialogue and agenda through a bi-annual rural restructuring conference which will facilitate meaningful exchange and the generation of new ideas among the various rural development leaders and stakeholders. |
| Service Area |
All North Carolina Counties |
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| Grantee | EnergyXchange |
| Contact | Terry Woodruff - Project Branch Out Manager
1081-2 Old US Hwy 421
Sugar Grove, NC 28679
828-297-5805 |
| Project Title | Project Branch Out |
| Grant Amount | $45,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of the grant are to: 1) build three more Project Branch Out Greenhouses at the EnergyXchange Renewable Energy Center; 2) identify and demonstrate alternative income crops for local tobacco growers--with emphasis on native plants; 3) continue a high school horticultural apprenticeship in Project Branch Out Greenhouses; and 4) provide start-up financial assistance to at least 5 growers in the region. |
| Service Area |
Wilkes County, Watauga County, Mitchell County, Yancey County, Avery County |
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| Grantee | Environmental Impact (RC&D), Inc. |
| Contact | John L. Caviness - Director
100 E. Main Street
Post Office Box 653
Aberdeen, NC 28315-0653
910-944-4787 |
| Project Title | Growing Trees, Needles, and Jobs -- LongLeaf Pine Ecosystem Waste Management Research |
| Grant Amount | $30,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of the grant are to: 1) provide research to expand uses of pine needles as a cash crop; and 2) systematically develop a long-term crop that is safe for producers, consumers and the environment. |
| Service Area |
Hoke County, Scotland County, Lee County, Harnett County |
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| Grantee | Greene County Schools |
| Contact | Lou Anne Shackelford - Director
301 Kingold Boulevard
Snow Hill, NC 28580
252-747-4300 |
| Project Title | Greene County Family Literacy |
| Grant Amount | $125,000.00 |
| Project Description | This project will provide comprehensive family literacy services to families most in need because of poverty and illiteracy and lack of employment skills. |
| Service Area |
Greene County |
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| Grantee | The Hill Center |
| Contact | Emily Few - Director of Development
3200 Pickett Road
Durham, NC 27705
919-489-7464 x731 |
| Project Title | Hill Center-Building Rural Schools Initiative |
| Grant Amount | $150,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of this project are to: 1) improve K-12 educational infrastructure for children with learning disabilities in NC's Eastern and Border Tobacco belts; 2) improve student achievement; 3) enhance teacher preparation;
4) strengthen partnership among teachers, administrators, parents; and 5)
develop a long-term training program to serve rural counties.
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| Service Area |
Robeson County, Sampson County, Duplin County, Lenoir County, Greene County |
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| Grantee | Idealliance, Inc. |
| Contact | William Dean - President
115 S. Chestnut Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-716-8672 |
| Project Title | The Northwest Piedmont: From Tobacco-Dependent to Technology-Driven |
| Grant Amount | $200,000.00 |
| Project Description | This project is for research on nicotine to facilitate the transition of the Northwest Piedmont's economy by promoting the development of new tobacco-based products. |
| Service Area |
Statewide with special impact on Stokes County, Rockingham County, Davie County, Davidson County, Forsyth County |
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| Grantee | James Sprunt Community College |
| Contact | Harvey C. Hutchison - Executive Director
Post Office Box 398
Kenansville, NC 28439
910-296-2400
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| Project Title | Middle Management Training for Business and Industry for Supervisors and Managers in the Tobacco Industry
Impacted by a Decline in Demand for Tobacco and Tobacco Products.
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| Grant Amount | $32,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to train 140 individuals from the 9 traditionally tobacco producing counties in Southeast NC for middle-management jobs in business and industry. |
| Service Area |
Onslow County, Lenoir County, Johnston County, Craven County, Duplin County |
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| Grantee | Johnston-Lee-Harnett Community Action, Inc. |
| Contact | E. Marie Watson - Executive Director
Post Office Drawer 711
Smithfield, NC 27577
919-934-2145
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| Project Title | Johnston-Lee-Harnett Community Action New Beginnings
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| Grant Amount | $150,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goal of this two-year grant is to provide services to 610 displaced workers that are still unemployed or under-employed since K.R. Edwards Tobacco Company closed its doors in June 1999. "New Beginnings" will offer case management, training, education, health care and referrals. |
| Service Area |
Johnston County |
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| Grantee | MDC, Inc. |
| Contact | Leah Totten - Communications Director
Post Office Drawer 17268
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-7268
919-968-4531
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| Project Title | Supporting Communities in Comprehensive Change Efforts: A Collaborative Approach
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| Grant Amount | $150,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of this project are to: 1) create an ongoing source of assistance to build the capacity of communities to solve complex community problems inclusively and collaboratively, with a special emphasis on tobacco-dependent communities; 2) strengthen the numbers and capacity of practitioners across North Carolina who work in communities through a process of shared work and ongoing learning; and 3) help communities more easily access the wide array of resources already available in the state to support community-change efforts. |
| Service Area |
North Carolina's 85 Rural Counties |
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| Grantee | Mountain Valleys Resource Conservation and Development Council in partnership with Mountain Partners in
Agriculture
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| Contact | Sally Stokes - Executive Director
94 Cox Avenue, Suite 100
Asheville, NC 28801-3620
828-252-4936 x5
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| Project Title | Tobacco Transitions: Toward Regional Community-Based Food Systems |
| Grant Amount | $50,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of this grant are to: 1) strengthen an existing successful farming production program; 2) support an existing local community-based marketing initiative; 3) gain an understanding of the existing regional food system and the critical needs and components of establishing community-based food systems in the region; and 4) promote organic farming. |
| Service Area |
Yancey County, Henderson County, Haywood County, Buncombe County, Madison County |
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| Grantee | NC AgroMedicine Institute of East Carolina University
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| Contact | Dorothy Baker - Contract and Grant Officer
600 Moye Boulevard
Greenville, NC 27858-4354
252-816-3151
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| Project Title | Designing an Affordable Farm Health Insurance Benefit: Phase 1: Assessment of the Pilot Study Population |
| Grant Amount | $29,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this project is to design and develop options for health care insurance for farm families. Phase 1 seeks to characterize the farm population targeted for the pilot study. Evaluation and development of this model would start with basic assessments of available health care resources, needs, risks, motivation, satisfaction, and economic and community impacts. |
| Service Area |
North Carolina's Rural
Counties |
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| Grantee | New River Community Partners, Inc. |
| Contact | Patrick N. Woodie - Executive Director
45 N. Main Street
Post Office Box 1897
Sparta, NC 28675
336-372-8118 |
| Project Title | New River Basin Sustainable Agriculture Initiative |
| Grant Amount | $75,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of the grant is to allow the New River Basin communities of North Carolina to revitalize their
agricultural base through the research and development of alternative, non-traditional agricultural commodities;
the development of a comprehensive regional marketing strategy; the education of the traditional and
non-traditional farm community; and the preservation of farmland in the New River Basin.
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| Service Area |
Watauga County, Ashe County, Alleghany County |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University |
| Contact | Earnestine Psalmonds - Vice Chancellor for Research
1601 E. Market Street
Greensboro, NC 27411
336-334-7995 |
| Project Title | Alternative Value-Added Cash Crops for North Piedmont District Tobacco Farmers |
| Grant Amount | $250,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to train farmers to grow and market organic medicinal herbs, to form a North Piedmont Herb Growers Association, and to assist farmers with goat-meat production.
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| Service Area |
Franklin County, Forsyth County, Durham County, Caswell County, Alamance County |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Agricultural Foundation, Inc. |
| Contact | Keith D. Oakley - Assistant Secretary
Campus Box 7645
Raleigh, NC 27695-7645
919-515-2000 |
| Project Title | Processing Food-Grade Soybeans for the Natto and Tofu Market |
| Grant Amount | $150,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of this grant are to provide NC producers of food-grade soybeans a single location with a color sorter for processing food-grade soybeans and to expand markets for NC soybeans worldwide. |
| Service Area |
Columbus County, Wilson County, Hoke County, Pitt County |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Agricultural Foundation, Inc. |
| Contact | Keith D. Oakley - Assistant Secretary
Campus Box 7645
Raleigh, NC 27695-7645
919-515-2000 |
| Project Title | Grain Growers Cooperative Implementation Funding Request |
| Grant Amount | $250,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goal of this grant is to assist the Grain Growers Cooperative in achieving an expedited entry into the marketing of grains, soybeans and other crops for the benefit of the state's farmers. GCC will be an alternative for producers to organize and market their inputs cooperatively, thus retaining most of the profits from their work within their local communities. This project will provide meaningful economic alternatives for farmers in a new era of vertical integration and contract production of basic agricultural commodities. |
| Service Area |
North Carolina's Rural
Counties |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Agricultural Foundation, Inc. |
| Contact | Keith D. Oakley - Assistant Secretary
Campus Box 7645
Raleigh, NC 27695-7645
919-515-2000 |
| Project Title | Farmer Owned Value Added Processing Feasibility Study |
| Grant Amount | $90,000.00 |
| Project Description | The project proposes to do a feasibility study and business plan for a cooperatively-controlled, demand-driven, value-added food processing facility as recommended by the NC Rural Prosperity Task Force. The project focuses on networking several pork processing operations to address markets for small independent farmers. |
| Service Area |
North Carolina's Rural Counties |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Agricultural Foundation, Inc. |
| Contact | Keith D. Oakley - Assistant Secretary
Campus Box 7645
Raleigh, NC 27695-7645
919-515-2000 |
| Project Title | Pepper Seeds for an Alternative Crop |
| Grant Amount | $150,000.00 |
| Project Description | This project proposes to undertake scientific research to develop capsaicin pepper seeds for planting by farmers in NC as a cash crop. |
| Service Area |
North Carolina's Rural
Counties |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Community College Foundation |
| Contact | Stephen Scott - Executive Vice President
5001 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-5001
919-733-7051 |
| Project Title | Golden LEAF Foundation Scholarships |
| Grant Amount | $300,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to provide training to students attending North Carolina Community Colleges serving tobacco-dependent communities. |
| Service Area |
Alamance County, Beaufort County, Bertie County, Bladen County, Buncombe County, Cabarrus County, Caswell County, Chowan County, Columbus County, Duplin County, Durham County, Edgecombe County, Franklin County, Forsyth County, Granville County, Greene County, Guilford County, Harnett County, Henderson County, Hertford County, Hoke County, Johnston County, Jones County, Lee County, Lenoir County, Madison County, Martin County,
Montgomery County, Nash County, Person County, Pitt County, Robeson County, Sampson County, Stokes County, Surry County, Vance County, Warren County, Wayne County, Wilson County, Yadkin County |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Plant Industry Division, Plant Protection Section |
| Contact | Gene Cross - Administrator
Post Office Box 27647
Raleigh, NC 27611
919-733-6930 |
| Project Title | Development of a Cultivation System for Ramps (Allium tricoccum): A New Crop for North Carolina |
| Grant Amount | $24,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goal of this project is to develop ramps as a new or alternate crop for producers and woodland owners enabling the conservation of native wild ramps populations and increased revenues for farmers. |
| Service Area |
Buncombe County, Carteret County, Caldwell County, Watauga County, Ashe County |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Minority Support Center |
| Contact | Linwood Cox - President
5407 Lake Vista Drive
Durham, NC 27712
919-530-1683 x226 |
| Project Title | Equity Grant Fund |
| Grant Amount | $100,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to help community credit unions overcome capital challenges and offer new services to their distressed, tobacco-dependent communities. |
| Service Area |
Vance County, Person County, Warren County, Franklin County, Alexander County, Cabarrus County,
Catawba County, Davie County, Iredell County, Rowan County, Hertford County, Brunswick County,
Columbus County, New Hanover County, Pender County, Bertie County, Gates County, Northampton County |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Partnership for
Economic Development
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| Contact | John Harris - Co-Chair
c/o Research Triangle Regional Partnership
Post Office Box 80756
RDU Airport, NC 27623
919-840-7372 |
| Project Title | Partnering for Rural Opportunities |
| Grant Amount | $456,735.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of the grant is to
enhance economic development efforts and programs in North Carolina's 85 rural counties by providing
increased access to non-public funds. Each regional partnership is eligible to receive special
project funding from this grant.
The following grants are projects approved from the North Carolina Partnership for Economic
Development allocation.
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| Service Area |
North Carolina's 85 Rural Counties |
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| Grantee | North Carolina State University - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences |
| Contact | Charles G. Moreland - Vice Chancellor, Research, Outreach and Extension
22 Leazar Hall, Box 7514
Raleigh, NC 27595
919-515-2444 |
| Project Title | Viable Agricultural Alternatives for North Carolina Farmers |
| Grant Amount | $400,000.00 |
| Project Description | This grant will fund research that is designed to: 1) develop and provide tobacco growers with alternative crops; 2) develop and provide tobacco growers with alternative uses for tobacco; and 3) incubate and nurture start-up
companies that will be involved in developing alternative crops and alternative uses of tobacco.
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| Service Area |
Southeastern North Carolina |
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| Grantee | North Carolina State University; East Carolina University |
| Contact | Richard E. Best - Manager of Industrial Research, Centers, Institutes, and Laboratories
22 Leazar Hall, Box 7514
Raleigh, NC 27595
919-515-2444 |
| Project Title | Christmas Trees: An Alternative Cash Crop to Tobacco in Eastern North Carolina |
| Grant Amount | $152,000.00 |
| Project Description | This project seeks to overcome current limitations of Christmas tree quality and productivity in eastern NC and lay the foundation for the development of Christmas trees as an alternative cash crop to tobacco in this region.
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| Service Area |
Southeastern North Carolina |
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| Grantee | North Carolina Tobacco Foundation |
| Contact | Keith D. Oakley - Assistant Secretary
Campus Box 7645
Raleigh, NC 27695-7645
919-515-2000 |
| Project Title | TGANC |
| Grant Amount | $55,500.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of this grant are to: 1) provide enhanced and more timely information to members of the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina and other interested parties throughout North Carolina and the world concerning issues related to tobacco; and 2) to provide and promote services that will improve the economic stability of tobacco dependent individuals and entities throughout North Carolina. |
| Service Area |
All North Carolina counties |
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| Grantee | Northwestern Regional Library |
| Contact | Michael Sawyer - Director
111 N. Front Street
Elkin, NC 28621
336-835-4894 |
| Project Title | Integrated Automated System: Linking up 13 Libraries |
| Grant Amount | $15,000.00 |
| Project Description | This project is to link up the 13 libraries in four counties with real time (current) via the Wide Area Network (WAN) which will include the Internet. In many cases, people do not own a computer and have to rely on the local libraries to provide this service. |
| Service Area |
Yadkin County, Surry County, Stokes County, Alleghany County |
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| Grantee | Opportunities Industrialization Center of Wilson, Inc. |
| Contact | Howard Jones - President
801 E. Reid Street
Post Office Box 547
Wilson, NC 27894
252-291-0038 |
| Project Title | WCET (Wilson County Employment and Training) |
| Grant Amount | $125,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of this two-year grant are to: 1) encourage tobacco industry dependent clients to further their education and training; 2) provide basic and upgraded educational and vocational skills training; and 3) identify job opportunities with the prospects of leading to job security and economic advancement. |
| Service Area |
Wilson County |
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| Grantee | Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) |
| Contact | John B. Justice - Development Officer
274 Pittsboro Elementary School Road
Post Office Box 640
Pittsboro, NC 27312
919-542-1396 |
| Project Title | A pilot project to extend mental health outreach to North Carolina farm families in crisis |
| Grant Amount | $150,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this project is
to provide mental health outreach services to farm families in 5 eastern North Carolina counties where families and communities are being dislocated by changes in tobacco and recent natural disasters. This project also proposes to create, implement and evaluate a pilot model for increasing such services statewide on an ongoing basis. |
| Service Area |
Duplin County, Craven County, Columbus County, Bladen County, Beaufort County |
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| Grantee | Surry Community College |
| Contact | Charles Boles - Chair, Science Division
Post Office Box 304
Dobson, NC 27017
336-386-8121 |
| Project Title | 21st Century Paradigm for Agriculture |
| Grant Amount | $130,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of this grant are to: 1) provide financial assistance for students affected by reduced tobacco income;
2) provide training in viticulture; 3) develop distance learning opportunities in viticulture for all of NC; 3) provide employment assistance; 4) enhance faculty development; 5) construct a research vineyard for Western NC; 6) develop a winery cooperative for the marketing of grapes; and 7) provide support to community and tobacco settlement funding agencies in identifying appropriate solutions to tobacco related community problems.
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| Service Area |
Yadkin County, Surry County |
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| Grantee | Transylvania Partnership |
| Contact | Chris Sneeden - Chairman
Post Office Box 1578
Brevard, NC 28712
704-884-3299 |
| Project Title | Research Possibility of Cotton Linters |
| Grant Amount | $200,000.00 |
| Project Description | This project will research and develop the possible effect of cotton linters as an alternative product in the manufacturing of tobacco and other specialty papers, thereby expanding markets for cotton and securing jobs in the paper industry. |
| Service Area |
All North Carolina Counties |
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| Grantee | Watauga County Government |
| Contact | Sue Counts - County Extension Director
Watauga County Center, Cooperative Extension
971 W. King Street
Boone, NC 28607
828-264-3061 |
| Project Title | High Country Sustainable Agriculture Project |
| Grant Amount | $50,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of this grant are to: 1) keep tobacco and vegetables as an economic underpinning of western North Carolina's agricultural economy; 2) transition tobacco growers to organic burley tobacco production; 3) transition tobacco growers to vegetable production; 4) establish education and demonstration projects for farmers; 5) establish the High Country Organic Growers' School; and 6) prepare an organic transition website/manual for burley tobacco growers. |
| Service Area |
Buncombe County, Madison County, Watauga County, Avery County |
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| Grantee | Western North Carolina Alliance |
| Contact | Brownie Newman - Executive Coordinator
70 Woodfin Place #326
Asheville, NC 28801
828-258-8737 |
| Project Title | Timber Producers Cooperative Alliance Feasibility Study |
| Grant Amount | $50,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this project is to determine the feasibility of establishing a timber producers cooperative in Western NC.
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| Service Area |
Western North Carolina |
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| Grantee | Western North Carolina Community Development Association |
| Contact | Patricia Brinkley - President
594 Brevard Road
Asheville, NC 28806
828-252-4783 |
| Project Title | Sustainable Community-Based Economic Development for Tobacco Dependent Communities |
| Grant Amount | $150,000.00 |
| Project Description | The goals of this grant are to: 1) design regional economic development strategies to support tobacco farmers in their communities; 2) engage communities in proactive efforts to support their tobacco farmer neighbors; and 3) preserve the rural quality of life for all community residents by assisting tobacco-dependent farmers as they transition from tobacco to other crops. |
| Service Area |
Yancey County, Madison County, Haywood County, Buncombe County |
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Golden LEAF Foundation
301 N. Winstead Avenue, Rocky Mount, NC 27804
252-442-7474 phone 252-442-7404 fax 888-684-8404 toll free
www.goldenleaf.org
email: info@goldenleaf.org
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