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Dear Friends,
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (ZSR) is pleased to announce its Spring 2022 grant awards under its All For NC Framework for Grantmaking and Learning. Board of Trustees approved $2.76 million in grants for 119 organizations located across North Carolina.
The grants awarded support ZSR’s Framework for Grantmaking and Learning, which includes three major strategies, and which is guiding the Foundation as it strives to improve the quality of life for all North Carolinians.
“For more than 80 years, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has been a catalyst for positive change in North Carolina,” said Maurice “Mo” Green, executive director. “ZSR is committed to the people of North Carolina, and the grants awarded in 2022 will support local, regional and statewide organizations that share in our vision and core values.”
State-Level Systemic Change Strategy
The Foundation awarded State-Level Systemic Change Strategy grants totaling more than $370,000 to five organizations across the state. ZSR’s State-Level Systemic Change Strategy supports state, regional and local organizations, coalitions, or collaboratives that are working to achieve systemic change at the state level within and across the following priority areas: Advancing Public Education, Fostering a Healthy and Sustainable Environment, Promoting Social and Economic Justice, and Strengthening Democracy.
Organizations awarded State-Level Systemic Change Strategy grants in the Spring 2022 cycle are listed below:
Promoting Social and Economic Justice
- Community Success Initiative
General operating support
- NC Black Alliance
Life Without Parole Judicial Review Pilot Program
- NC Council of Churches
Farmworker Advocacy Network project
Strengthening Democracy
- Code the Dream
Upstate North Carolina Statewide Legislative Advocacy Platform project
- Duke University
North Carolina Leadership Forum project
Community-Based Strategy
In addition, Trustees awarded more than $1.4 million in Community Progress Fund grants to 33 organizations across the state. ZSR's Community Progress Fund, which is a part of ZSR’s Community-Based Strategy, is designed to provide an infusion of short-term funding at the right moment and is intended to build on existing momentum to help move an issue, an idea or an organization forward.
Progress Fund grants awarded include:
- 1901 Building Group
Soul Earth Garden Park
- Action4Equity
Winston-Salem Freedom Schools
- African-American Heritage Foundation of Southeastern NC
Cedar Hill African-American Heritage Park Development
- Benjamin and Edith Spaulding Descendants Foundation
George Henry White (GHW) Health and Education Memorial Community Center
- Catawba County Hispanic Ministry
Todos Somos América
- Centro Unido Latino-Americano
Vamos/We Go
- E J Hayes Alumni Association
E J Hayes Alumni Center’s Roof Upgrade
- El Futuro
Building Parent-to-Parent Engagement and Advocacy Capacity for Latinx Parents of Children with Learning Differences
- FMBC of Magnolia Ministries
Food Pantry
- Happy Roots
School and Community Garden Coordinator Position
- HOLLA Community Development Corporation
NETworX Anson County’s Cohort and Community Garden
- Hope Renovations
Women’s Trades Training Program – Spanish Pilot
- Island CultureZ
Island Ecosystem Strengthened through Transportation/Grassroot Agricultural Cooperative
- Little Tree Farm and Retreat
Racial Equity Cabarrus
- Nehemiah Community Empowerment Center
Phenomenal Women in STEM Program
- New Hope Community Development Group
Community Leadership Development, Capacity-Building, and Engagement
- Port Discover
Discover Science
- PTA NC Congress of Parents and Teachers
Reimagining Food Pantries: Front Porch Delivery Pilot Program
- Region K Community Assistance Corporation
Project Restore
- Rowan County Youth Services Bureau
LGBTQ Youth Resource and Support Services
- Sandhills Cooperation Association
Innovative Action Center: Business Development and Job Creation
- South Eastern NC Community Development Corporation
Rocky Mount Housing Authority: Enhancing Family Self-Sufficiency in Public Housing
- Southeast Rocky Mount Community Collaboration of Churches
Leadership Development and Grassroots Change Program
- Southern Vision Alliance
Chatham Organizing for Racial Equity (CORE)
- Spaulding Family Resource Center
Spaulding Family Resource Center and Campus
- StandUp-SpeakOut of NC
Empowering People Inspiring Community (E.P.I.C.) Program
- Training to Work an Industry Niche
Professional Painting Pilot Program for Women of Color
- Truth Foundational Ministries
Taking the Edge Off
- Village of Help
Mobile Art Clinic
- WeBuild Concord
Community Advisory Board Expansion
- West Rowan Neighborhood Center Advisory Council
Reuse of Historic R.A. Clement Rosenwald School
- Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry
Healthy Opportunities for All
- Yadkinville United Methodist Church
Grassroots Community Kitchen
ZSR Trustees also awarded a two-year grant of $200,000 each year to the Neighborhood Funders Group for the Amplify Fund, a pooled fund bringing together funders at the state, regional and national levels to learn, collaborate and leverage resources toward power building and organizing for equitable development. Amplify aims to strengthen the ability of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities to build power and influence decisions about the places where they live and work. Amplify is working in North Carolina as well as several other states and Puerto Rico.
Exploratory, Visionary Ideas Strategy
ZSR Trustees awarded 20 Inclusive Public Art planning grants for $5,000 each, totaling $100,000. The Foundation’s investment in Inclusive Public Art is intended to help share stories of diversity, equality, inclusion and equity as they relate to the people and places of North Carolina, especially those whose stories are often untold. The planning grants were awarded to 20 semifinalists which are to use the funds for community engagement and to develop project plans for potential inclusive public art installations in North Carolina. ZSR is partnering with the Mellon Foundation in this Inclusive Public Art initiative.
Inclusive Public Art planning grants awarded include:
- 1901 Building Group
- Asheville Creative Arts
- Brunswick County NAACP
- BUMP
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership
- City of Washington
- Coharie Intra-Tribal Council
- Currituck County
- Downtown Morehead City Revitalization Association
- Friends of State Historic Sites-Edenton
- Highland Neighborhood Association
- Hola Community Arts
- Hope Center of Hendersonville
- Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women
- Island CultureZ
- Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History
- Museum of the Cherokee Indian
- NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
- St. Joseph's Historic Foundation
- Tryon Palace Foundation
Wellness Capacity Grants
ZSR also awarded wellness capacity grants totaling $492,000 to 60 current grantees across North Carolina. These wellness capacity grants are intended to respond to the difficulties experienced by nonprofits that have left many nonprofit professionals stretched thin and burnt out at an alarming rate.
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