{"tinyMCE_dummy":"","title":"Jackson County Community Foundation awards more than $18,000 in local grants","url":"\/news\/jackson-county-community-foundation-awards-more-than-18000-in-local-grants","meta":{"title":"","description":"","excludeFromSitemap":"No"},"ordinal":999,"content":"<p><img style=\"margin: 5px auto; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/nmcdn.io\/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da\/7868d48393ef4e3bb7bca8cdf7bc2f20\/files\/7J4A4702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6720\" height=\"4480\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The board of advisors of the Jackson County Community Foundation recently announced $18,760 in local grant awards from the community grantmaking fund.<\/p>\r\n<p>This year the board granted:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>$2,000 to Equinox Ranch for the Equinox Ranch meeting room<\/li>\r\n<li>$1,360 to Blue Ridge Health for Community Health Services for Jackson County<\/li>\r\n<li>$1,000 to Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project, Inc. (Blue Ridge Free Dental Clinic) for increasing access to dental care in Jackson County<\/li>\r\n<li>$2,500 to Vecinos, Inc. Farmworker Health Program for farmworker prescription medications<\/li>\r\n<li>$1,800 to Mountain Projects for training programs for Jackson County Circles of Hope<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><img style=\"margin: 5px auto; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/nmcdn.io\/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da\/7868d48393ef4e3bb7bca8cdf7bc2f20\/files\/7J4A4616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6720\" height=\"4480\" \/><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>$1,300 to Fontana Regional Library for the Reading Rover Bookmobile 2018 program<\/li>\r\n<li>$1,500 to Full Spectrum Farms for the advanced pottery program<\/li>\r\n<li>$2,000 to the Thirtieth Judicial District Domestic Violence-Sexual Assault Alliance, Inc. for the Immigrant Outreach Project<\/li>\r\n<li>$1,000 to the Community Table for general operating support<\/li>\r\n<li>$2,300 to the Western North Carolina AIDS Project for WNCAP&rsquo;s Syringe Exchange Program of Franklin<\/li>\r\n<li>$2,000 to the Hospice House Foundation of WNC for oversight of the construction of the Hospice Inpatient Facility in Franklin, NC<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Ken Torok, board president, thanked the community for its support of the Jackson County Community Foundation. &ldquo;We are proud to support these nonprofit programs that are so vital to the community,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We are grateful to the many generous individuals and organizations that have supported the Jackson County Community Foundation and our work to inspire philanthropy across our community.&rdquo;<\/p>\r\n<p><img style=\"margin: 5px auto; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/nmcdn.io\/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da\/7868d48393ef4e3bb7bca8cdf7bc2f20\/files\/7J4A4627.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6720\" height=\"4480\" \/><\/p>","excerpt":"<p>The board of advisors of the Jackson County Community Foundation recently announced $18,760 in local grant awards from the community grantmaking fund.<\/p>","media":[{"type":"image","url":"https:\/\/nmcdn.io\/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da\/7868d48393ef4e3bb7bca8cdf7bc2f20\/files\/7J4A4702.jpg","title":"7J4A4702","caption":"","size":"30595510"},{"type":"image","url":"https:\/\/nmcdn.io\/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da\/7868d48393ef4e3bb7bca8cdf7bc2f20\/files\/7J4A4616.jpg","title":"7J4A4616","caption":"","size":"29114586"},{"type":"image","url":"https:\/\/nmcdn.io\/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da\/7868d48393ef4e3bb7bca8cdf7bc2f20\/files\/7J4A4627.jpg","title":"7J4A4627","caption":"","size":"28781604"}],"custom":{"masthead":{"title":"","counties":"","affiliate_logo":"","sub_text":"","background_image":"","caption":""},"post_image":{"image":"https:\/\/nmcdn.io\/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da\/7868d48393ef4e3bb7bca8cdf7bc2f20\/files\/7J4A4702.jpg"},"latest_blog":{"post":""}},"inMenu":false,"visibleTo":"Everyone","publishedAt":1541605919,"orderChildrenBy":"ordinal","enableComments":false,"permission":"read","id":"95848028d1be4de9b5d318f23fc95f6e","parent":"31bc018cb0694068b20999237c54f462","node":56499,"created":1541605920,"modified":1542138322,"fresh":1,"type":"post","children":{},"relations":{"category":[{"title":"Jackson County Community Foundation","source":null,"url":"\/categories\/communities\/western\/jackson-county-community-foundation","content":"","inMenu":false,"publishedAt":1536248068,"meta":{"title":"","description":"","excludeFromSitemap":"No"},"ordinal":0,"orderChildrenBy":"","permission":"write","tinyMCE_dummy":"","excerpt":"","media":"0","visibleTo":"Everyone","id":"c5be02af68634eb8b37ce3a8dfab0143","parent":"44d83c871eb54eb6b26d40a5bc49cce9","node":20900,"created":1533158726,"modified":1536248068,"fresh":1,"type":"f9a6b2b005cb46ed8778f11c37e4d3a5","children":{}}]}}