ZSR Trustees Announce Fall 2020 State-Level Systemic Change Grant Awards





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ZSR Trustees Announce Fall 2020 State-Level Systemic Change Grant Awards
106 State-Level Systemic Change Grant Awards Totaling $5.87 million

Winston-Salem, NC (January 22, 2021) – The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has announced the recipients of its Fall 2020 State-Level Systemic Change Strategy grant awards.

Trustees voted to approve 106 grants totaling $5.87 million to organizations across North Carolina. Organizations awarded grants in the Fall 2020 cycle are listed below in alphabetical order. The next open cycle for State-Level Systemic Change grants will begin later this year.

ADVANCING PUBLIC EDUCATION

Book Harvest
For general operating support

Child Care Services Association
NC Early Childhood/School Age Workforce Registry project

digiLEARN Digital Learning Institute
Micro-Credentialing Project

Down East Partnership for Children
For general operating support

Hoke County Schools
Leandro Litigation project

Innovation Project
TIP Solution Creators Action Network (TIP-SCAN) project

James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute
For general operating support

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
For general operating support of its North Carolina regional office

NC Alliance for School Leadership Development
North Carolina District Leaders Institute project

NC Association for the Gifted and Talented
Talent Unleashed: Closing North Carolina's Excellence Gap project

NC Civil War History Center Foundation
For general operating support

NC Partnership for Children
For general operating support

NC Society of Hispanic Professionals
For general operating support

NC State University
Division of Academic and Student Affairs (DASA) - Juntos Program/Educational Coalition for a Better North Carolina through NC State Juntos and College Advising Corps project

Pastors for Texas Children
Pastors for North Carolina Children project

Profound Gentlemen
For general operating support

Public Schools First NC
For general operating support

Ready for School, Ready for Life
For general operating support

Schools that Lead
For general operating support of its North Carolina work

Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Education Justice Alliance project

Student U
For general operating support

Teach for America
For general operating support of its North Carolina work

Village of Wisdom
For general operating support

FOSTERING A HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

Alliance for Climate Education
For general operating support of its North Carolina work

Asheville Greenworks
For general operating support

Clean Air Carolina
For general operating support

Conservation Fund
New Models for North Carolina Community-Led Resilience project

Dogwood Alliance
For general operating support

Foothills Conservancy of NC
Catawba Wateree Initiative - Protecting Land to Protect Water project

Fresh Energy
Energy News Network Reporting in North Carolina project

Good Stewards of Rockingham
For general operating support

Haw River Assembly
For general operating support

National Audubon Society
For general operating support of its North Carolina work

Nature Conservancy
Advancing North Carolina Climate Leadership and Scaling Coastal Resilience project

NC Climate Solutions Coalition
For general operating support

NC Health News
Tracking Environmental Health in North Carolina project

NC League of Conservation Voters Foundation
For general operating support

NC WARN
For general operating support

NC Wildlife Federation
For general operating support

Sol Nation
For general operating support

Southern Vision Alliance
North Carolina Virtual Disaster and Resiliency School project

Sustainable Sandhills
For general operating support

Toxic Free NC
For general operating support

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering's Environmental Justice Applied Research Clinic (EJ ARC) project

WakeUP Wake County
For general operating support

West End Revitalization Association
For general operating support

Winyah Rivers Foundation
For general operating support of its North Carolina work

Yadkin Riverkeeper
For general operating support

MISCELLANEOUS

NC Center for Nonprofit Organizations
For general operating support

St. John Community Development Corporation
Parents Support project

PROMOTING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Alternate ROOTS
SpiritHouse project

American Civil Liberties Union of NC
For general operating support

American Friends Service Committee
North Carolina Immigrant Rights Program-Intersectional Organizing project

Beloved Community Center of Greensboro
For general operating support

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture
For general operating support

Carolina Common Enterprise
For general operating support

Carolina Justice Policy Center
For general operating support

Carolina Migrant Network
For general operating support

Center for Participatory Change
For general operating support

Center for Popular Democracy
Local Progress North Carolina project

Church World Service
For general operating support of its North Carolina work

Coalicion Latinoamericana
For general operating support

Elizabeth City State University Foundation
"Viking RACE" (Realized Awareness Changes Everything) project

Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina
Episcopal Farmworker Ministry project

Farmer Foodshare
For general operating support

Fayetteville JFON Immigration Law Clinic
For general operating support

Forward Justice
For general operating support

Freedom Center for Social Justice
For general operating support

Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women
Moral Injury Framework project

Just Economics
For general operating support

Mt. Calvary Leadership Development Corporation
For general operating support

NC Assoc of Black Lawyers' Land Loss Prevention Project
For general operating support

NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault
For general operating support

NC Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
For general operating support

NC Farmworkers Project
Farmworker Advocacy Network project

NC FIELD
For general operating support

NC Housing Coalition
For general operating support

NC Institute of Minority Economic Development
For general operating support

NC State University
Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) - North Carolina Local Food Council (NCLFC) project

Piedmont Business Capital
For general operating support

Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA
For general operating support

TRACTOR, Inc.
For general operating support

United for Respect Education Fund
United for Respect North Carolina project

Uniting NC
For general operating support

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
School of Government's Criminal Justice Innovation Lab project

Women AdvaNCe
For general operating support

Working Landscapes
For general operating support

YWCA of High Point
Latino Family Center project

STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY

Action Institute NC
For general operating support

Children First CIS of Buncombe County
For general operating support

Democracy NC
Millennial Voter Partnership project

Disability Rights NC
For general operating support

Durham CAN
For general operating support

El Centro Hispano
Enlace Latino North Carolina project

Lead NC Institute
For general operating support

NALEO Educational Fund
North Carolina Civic Engagement Strategy project

National Redistricting Foundation
Fighting for Fairer Maps in North Carolina project

NC Business Council
For general operating support

NC State University
For general operating support for the Institute for Emerging Issues

Scalawag
For general operating support of its North Carolina work

Southern Coalition for Social Justice
For general operating support

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
School of Government's Lead for North Carolina (LFNC) project

We Are Down Home
For general operating support

WomenNC - NC Committee for CSW-CEDAW
For general operating support

Working America Education Fund
For general operating support of its North Carolina work

You Can Vote
For general operating support

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Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (ZSR) is committed to improving the quality of life for all North Carolinians. ZSR is a statewide, private, family foundation that has been a catalyst for positive change in North Carolina for more than 80 years. In June 2018, the Foundation announced All For NC: Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation’s Framework for Grantmaking and Learning ([link removed]) . Headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC, the Foundation has invested $608 million into North Carolina. To learn more about ZSR and its All For NC Framework, visit www.zsr.org.

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