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At this time, locally funded community grants including Affordable Housing, Community Recreation, Early Childhood, Strategic Partnerships, and Tipping Point Grants are not currently accepting applications for FY26 (July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026) pending County budget decisions. Please check back in June 2025 for additional information.
Buncombe County’s AHSP provides funding to help ensure comprehensive opportunities for affordable and safe housing.
Buncombe County partners with the Area Agency on Aging to provide funding to support a system of home and community-based services for older adults.
Buncombe County's grant program to improve water quality.
Provides funding to promote fitness, health and wellness initiatives, activities and improvements.
Buncombe County’s investments in early childhood care and education.
The Isaac Coleman Economic Community Investment plan calls for targeted investments in our communities that are currently working to champion equitable opportunity.
Buncombe County operates JCPC to oversee investments to reduce juvenile crime by supporting services for children and youth.
Buncombe County invests in sustainability through annual Strategic Partnership Grants.
Tipping Point Grants are small grants to help amplify community efforts.
Buncombe County is committed to supporting organizations throughout the Community Investment Grant process. The following resources and tools are provided to assist in navigating the public funding landscape to further strengthen organizations in our community.
BoardMemberGuidetoPublicFunding Download the Board Member Guide to Public Funding
BuncombeCountyGrantsSummary Download the Buncombe County Grants Summary
FinanceGuideAndWorkbook Download the Finance Guide & Workbook
FundAccountingTool Download the Fund Accounting Tool
InternalControlsOverview Download the Internal Controls Overview
NCSecretaryofStateNonprofitCompliance Download the NC Secretary of State Nonprofit Compliance Document
NonprofitInsuranceOverview Download the Nonprofit Insurance Overview
PublicFundingContracts Download the Public Funding Contracts
PublicFundingReadinessChecklist Download the Public Funding Readiness Checklist
NCCenterForNonprofits NC Center for Nonprofits works to educate, connect, and advocate for North Carolina's nonprofits through a membership model with free resources available for 501(c)3 organizations.
NonprofitLearningLab The Nonprofit Learning Lab offers daily online nonprofit training on training, facilitation, fundraising, strategic planning, communications, volunteer management, and free resources to help you lead your organization.
WNCNonprofitPathways WNC Nonprofit Pathways is a funding collaborative making high quality, capacity building support available at low or no cost to nonprofits across the 18 Western-most counties in North Carolina.