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The North Carolina Healing Communities Fund provides critical resources for nonprofit organizations in North Carolina that have been impacted severely by COVID‐19 through revenue loss and increased demand.
The Fund’s focus is on marginalized communities that have been disproportionately affected by the virus and its economic impacts and have been underserved by other sources of financial assistance – specifically communities of lower wealth, communities of color, mostly rural communities and where English may not be the primary language.
Vision: Nonprofits are vital to the health of communities, particularly the most vulnerable ones. The NC Healing Communities Fund supports these nonprofits in continuing to offer the services upon which so many rely for healthy living and well‐being. Doing so will build and sustain thriving communities, allowing them to heal from COVID-19 impacts and grow stronger to face the future.
Purpose: Grants from the NC Healing Communities Fund are intended for nonprofits that are meeting needs that have emerged, expanded or increased as a result of the virus and/or that are recovering from losses of their own due to the impacts of the virus.
Timing: The NC Healing Communities Fund aims to be available for needs that exist when other assistance has diminished. Therefore, the Fund will distribute grants at a pace that permits funding to remain available for more than one distribution.
Geography: The NC Healing Communities Fund approaches grantmaking through a statewide lens, prioritizing areas that have received less funding and pursuing balance across North Carolina in terms of the allocation of philanthropic dollars.
Grant decisions will be made by an advisory committee composed of representatives from the nonprofit sector, health and human services, rural and faith communities and other partners.
NCCF is grateful to corporations and foundations that have helped to launch the Fund through generous contributions, including the State Employees' Credit Union Foundation, Duke Endowment, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, First Citizens Bank, Anonymous Trust, Jonas Foundation, Barnhill Family Foundation, Novartis Foundation and Fidelity Bank.
The Fund began distributing grants through an open application cycle in April 2021. Please click here for a current list of grants. The list will be updated as additional grants are distributed.
The NC Healing Communities Fund resumed accepting applications for review in its second round in May. As of June 11, it had received nearly $4.4 million in requests for the $2 million available for distribution. Therefore, the fund is not accepting new applications at this time. Grant decisions for this second round are expected by the end of July.
You may check back here for any future funding opportunities with this program.