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North Carolina Funding & Opportunities

READY Appalachia Grants to Grow
Grants to organizations seeking to build individual, organizational, and/or community capacity across the Appalachian region.
Geographic coverage: Appalachian Regional Commission service area
Letter of Intent (Required): Nov 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Feb 14, 2025
Sponsor: Appalachian Regional Commission
Into the Fields Sponsor Organization Application
Application for organizations in the Carolinas to host college student interns. Students will be trained on issues that farmworkers face and placed to work full-time with migrant education programs, legal aid offices, rural health clinics, community-based organizations, and farmworker unions.
Geographic coverage: North Carolina and South Carolina
Application Deadline: Nov 18, 2024
Sponsor: Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF)
MedServe North Carolina Fellowships in Primary Care Medicine
A 2-year, full-time, post-college community service fellowship in rural and other underserved community primary care sites in North Carolina.
Geographic coverage: North Carolina
Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2024
Sponsor: MedServe
Duke Endowment Health Care Grants
Funding for organizations in North Carolina and South Carolina working to address access to care, maternal and infant health, mental health, oral health, population health, and workforce development, with a focus on reducing disparities for underserved populations, including racial minorities and rural residents.
Geographic coverage: North Carolina and South Carolina
Application Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
Sponsor: The Duke Endowment
North Carolina Ribbon of Hope Grants
Funding to support activities that establish or expand local programs in health, science, and education that serve identified needs of local North Carolina communities. The goal of the program is to reach all counties in North Carolina.
Geographic coverage: North Carolina
Application Deadline: Jan 1, 2025
Sponsor: The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
American Connection Corps
A 1-year fellowship program that trains and mobilizes leaders to work in rural and emerging communities to coordinate broadband development and digital inclusion.
Geographic coverage: Available in 28 states.
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsors: AmeriCorps, Lead for America
Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) J-1 Visa Waiver Program
Offers a J-1 Visa waiver to foreign physicians who commit to serving for 3 years in rural Appalachian areas, allowing them to remain in the United States.
Geographic coverage: Locations within the Appalachian Regional Commission service area
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Appalachian Regional Commission
Dogwood Health Trust Leverage Fund
This program covers the costs of the services of professional, experienced grant writers to help individual organizations and collaboratives in the the Dogwood Health Trust service area pursue funding from national and state sources.
Geographic coverage: 18 counties and the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Dogwood Health Trust
Emory University CAPES Academy for Nursing Preceptors
Training and ongoing support for registered nurses and advanced practice registered nurses transitioning into the role of clinical faculty or preceptors serving medically underserved areas within the Southeast.
Geographic coverage: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Grants and Technical Assistance for Coal Communities Applying for Federal Funding
Funding and technical assistance to help coal communities submit competitive federal applications for community-led transition projects. Priority will be given to projects that are led by and serve low-income and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities most impacted by the transition.
Geographic coverage: Available in 16 states
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Just Transition Fund

Last Updated: 10/16/2024