The Golden LEAF Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, was created in
1999 to receive one-half of the funds coming to North Carolina from
the master settlement agreement with cigarette manufacturers. In turn,
the Foundation is helping North Carolinians make the transition from a
tobacco-dependent economy through grants and investments that will
positively affect the long-term economic advancement of the state. It
gives priority in its grantmaking to tobacco-dependent and economically
distressed counties.
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