Two years after Hurricane Helene brought catastrophic flooding, landslides and damage to Western North Carolina, communities across the region continue to demonstrate what locally led recovery looks like in action. We have seen High Country Caregivers rebuild stability for kinship families, and SeekHealing has provided meaningful connections and mental health support to help people heal. And those are just two of the more than 50 organizations we’ve supported.  

Through the Truist Foundation Western North Carolina Recovery and Resiliency Fund, we have proudly supported efforts that addressed medium- and long-term needs to help strengthen the region’s housing and small businesses.  

Today, we’re announcing nearly $4 million in our fourth and final round of grants from the Fund. These investments support local organizations committed to helping their communities rebuild toward a stronger and thriving future.  

Learn About Our Latest Grantee Partners 

CDP awarded the final round of grants to the following 18 organizations: 

  • Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity (AAHH) received $250,000 to support Asheville Regional Coalition for Home Repair (ARCHR), a coalition of housing partners addressing unmet repair and recovery needs throughout Buncombe and Madison counties. AAHH provides fundraising support to the Coalition and manages a universal intake form for participating partner organizations which streamlines the request process, shortens wait times and improves communication and collaboration among organizations, reducing the burden on households with limited financial means who are seeking storm-related home repairs. 
  • Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry received $100,000 for their Faith360 Disaster Care Coordination Network, which advances housing recovery and brings innovative, community-based case management services to rural communities in Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey and surrounding disaster-affected counties in Western North Carolina. 
  • Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Agriculture and Natural Resources Program received $100,000 in resiliency support to increase native rivercane (Arundinaria gigantea) production capacity. This project will help meet the increasingly high demand for this crop for riverbank restoration and traditional cultural uses, after Helene damaged significant stretches of the region’s waterways. The project serves the Qualla Boundary (Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Swain), and parts of Buncombe, Clay, Macon, Madison, Transylvania and Yancey counties. 

Read the full article about the Truist Foundation Western North Carolina Recovery and Resiliency Fund by Laura Lynn Taylor at Center for Disaster Philanthropy.