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Grants Awarded | 2004-2005 Economic Catalyst Awards
 The Golden Leaf Foundation is pleased to announce that the
following North Carolina
non profits and government entities were awarded economic catalyst grants in the last grant cycle.
Click on the North Carolina map icon for each grant recipient to obtain a map of the counties
served by that grant.
| Grantee | Alexander County Local Government |
| Contact | Mr. David A. Icenhour
621 Liledoun Road
Taylorsville, NC
Phone: (828) 632-1161
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| Project Title | Paragon Films Rail Project |
| Grant Amount | $148,372.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist Alexander County with the construction of 2,736 feet of rail line on county-owned property to serve Paragon Films, Inc. and future tenants at the Alexander County Industrial Park in Taylorsville. The company will invest approximately $15 million and employ 25 people in two years.
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| Service Area |
Alexander, Catawba, Iredell, Caldwell, Wilkes
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| Grantee | Beaufort County Community College |
| Contact | Ms. Almeta A. Woodard
P.O. Box 1069
Washington, NC 27889
Phone: (252) 940-6271
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| Project Title | Non-Ferrous Fabrication Welding Lab |
| Grant Amount | $215,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist Beaufort County Community College (BCCC) in increasing the number of skilled fabricators available to area industries with the addition of sophisticated, computerized equipment in the BCCC non-ferrous fabrication lab, currently the only non-ferrous fabrication lab in North Carolina. A complete fabrication lab will allow BCCC to provide training to an estimated 200 currently employed workers that need fabrication skills training and facilitate the creation of 60 new jobs at nearby industries.
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| Service Area |
Beaufort |
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| Grantee | Bladen's Bloomin Agri-Industrial, Inc. |
| Contact | Mr. Chuck Heustess
P.O. Box 2203
Elizabethtown, NC 28337-2203
Phone: (910) 862-6755
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| Project Title | Bladen's Bloomin Agri-Industrial, Inc. |
| Grant Amount | $185,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist Bladen's Bloomin' in locating La Belle Amie Vineyard, LLC in Bladen County and building upon its successful agri-industrial leasing program. La Belle Amie Vineyard will initially create 8-12 new manufacturing jobs and potentially 100-150 agricultural jobs in the southeast region.
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| Service Area |
Bladen County |
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| Grantee | Carolina's Gateway Partnership |
| Contact | Mr. John Gessaman
427 Falls Road
Rocky Mount, NC 27804
Phone: (252) 442-0114
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| Project Title | Project Hunger |
| Grant Amount | $250,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to provide support for a discharge pre-treatment system and assistance with an electric generator at the Whitaker Shell IV building in Nash County as part of a package to attract a well-known food processing company to the area.
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| Service Area |
Nash, Wilson, Halifax |
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| Grantee | Eastern Carolina Vocational Center, Inc. |
| Contact | Mr. Robert G. Jones
Executive Vice President
P.O. Box 1686
Greenville, NC 27835-1686
Phone: (252) 758-4188
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| Project Title | Military Battery Packaging |
| Grant Amount | $196,614.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist Eastern Carolina Vocational Center (ECVC) with the purchase of equipment and building renovations directly related to an expanded contract with the U.S. Dept. of Defense Supply Center in Richmond,VA. ECVC will become the largest supplier of commercial non-rechargeable batteries to the military. The project will create 33 new full-time jobs.
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| Service Area |
Beaufort, Martin |
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| Grantee | Forsyth Technical Community College |
| Contact | Mr. Gary M. Green, President
2100 Silas Creek Parkway
Winston-Salem, NC 27103-5197
Phone: (336) 723-0371
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| Project Title | Dell Training Initiative |
| Grant Amount | $2,763,237.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist with the assessment of approximately 8,000 potential employees and training of approximately 1,250 new employees for the location of the Dell Corporation in the Piedmont Triad region.
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| Service Area |
Davidson, Davie, Guilford, Forsyth, Stokes, Randolph, Rockingham, Surry, Yadkin |
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| Grantee | Halifax County |
| Contact | Ms. Cathy A. Scott
328 Hamilton Street
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina 27870
Phone: (252) 537-9050
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| Project Title | Halifax County Job Creation Project |
| Grant Amount | $250,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant is to help Halifax County prepare an 18-acre site and upfit a 50,000 sq. ft. shell building to accommodate a sensor manufacturing facility. Halifax County is negotiating with PCB Piezotronics of Buffalo, NY, to locate the company's planned expansion at the site. The County will retain ownership of the finished building and lease the facility to PCB Piezotronics for an initial 10-year lease at fair market value. PCB will commit to create 250 new jobs over 5 years and estimates 500 jobs over 10 years. PCB will also invest $2.5 million over 5 years. The annual average wage at the facility will be $26,000/year.
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| Service Area |
Halifax |
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| Grantee | Neuse River Development Authority, Inc. |
| Contact | Mr. Donald T. Steward, Executive Vice President
233 Middle Street, Suite 206
P.O. Box 1111
New Bern, NC 28563-1111
(919) 683-6724
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| Project Title | Workhorse Aviation Manufacturing LLC |
| Grant Amount | $250,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant is to assist the Neuse River Development Authority with locating Workhorse Aviation Manufacturing, LLC, in Lenoir County. The company will manufacture structural components for current and out-of-production military aircraft and for commercial passenger/cargo aircraft. The company will employ approximately 50 people within the next three years.
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| Service Area |
Craven |
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| Grantee | Tri-County Community College |
| Contact | Mr. Joe Hogg, Project Manager
4600 East US 64
Murphy, NC 28906
Phone: (828) 835-4296
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| Project Title | Machinist's Training Program |
| Grant Amount | $250,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to help Tri-County Community College provide machinist training to support three local industries in Cherokee County with their retention and expansion efforts. Approximately 193 people will be trained through the program and 200 new jobs will be created.
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| Service Area |
Cherokee |
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| Grantee | Western North Carolina Regional Economic Development Commission |
| Contact | Ms. Karen V. Hays
Director, Grants Administration
3 General Aviation Drive
Fletcher, NC
Phone: (828) 687-7234
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| Project Title | Project New Beginnings: 206 Jobs for Mitchell County |
| Grant Amount | $200,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist with the expansion of New Beginnings, an upholstered furniture manufacturer in Mitchell County that is creating 206 new manufacturing jobs. Funds will be used to purchase equipment that will be leased to the company at fair market value.
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| Service Area |
Mitchell |
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| Grantee | Western North Carolina Regional Economic Development Commission |
| Contact | Mr. Dale Carroll, President & CEO
3 General Aviation Drive
Fletcher, NC 28732
Phone: (828) 687-7234
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| Project Title | Workforce Training to Support a New Economy in Yancey County |
| Grant Amount | $200,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist with training equipment and instructor certification to help Yancey County prepare a workforce ready to fill 300 new jobs being created by Altec Industries in Burnsville.
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| Service Area |
Yancey |
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| Grantee | Western Piedmont Council of Governments |
| Contact | Mr. R. Douglas Taylor
P.O. Box 9026
Hickory, NC 28603-9026
Phone: (828) 485-4220
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| Project Title | Future Forward Certified Sites Program |
| Grant Amount | $137,532.25 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant is to assist the Western Piedmont Council of Governments with costs associated with the certification of nine sites through the N.C. Department of Commerce Site Certification Program. The sites are located in Alexander, Burke, Lincoln, Iredell, Rutherford, Watauga and Wilkes Counties.
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| Service Area |
Alexander, Burke, Lincoln, Iredell, Rutherford, Watauga and Wilkes |
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| Grantee | Yadkin-Pee Dee Lakes Project |
| Contact | Mr. William W Medlin, Executive Director
P.O. Box 159
Star, NC 27356
Phone: (252) 428-9001
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| Project Title | Star Kilns Project |
| Grant Amount | $187,000.00 |
| Project Description | The purpose of this grant is to assist in the transitioning of a former textile factory in the town of Star in Montgomery County into a business incubator. The project will provide facility improvements such as mechanical, electrical and structural, including construction of two permanent wood kilns, to help upfit 15,000 sq. ft. of space.
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| Service Area |
Montgomery |
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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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