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
ABOUT THE Z. SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION
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. 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.