Announcing more than $2.1 Million in Community Grants

The Winston-Salem Foundation announces 74 Community Grants totaling more than $2,105,480 from January through June 2025, made possible by donations from community members who support the Foundation’s flexible grantmaking funds. Learn more about grant programs for Forsyth County nonprofits at wsfoundation.org/grants.

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CAPACITY-Building GRANTS

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Capacity-Building Grants strengthen local nonprofits by supporting adaptation, strong management and technical skills, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion training and coaching to help organizations advance racial equity through their work.  

• Aim Higher in Education - $14,500 for strategic planning

• Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County - $25,000 for Creative Cultures pilot program in East Winston-Salem

• BEE GEEK Inc. - $42,500 for an administrative assistant over two years  

• Bookmarks - $42,500 for a development manager over two years

• Cancer Services - $25,000 to research and implement new internal database systems  

• Center for Creative Economy - $15,000 to support succession planning  

• Children's Home Society of NC - $20,000 to evaluate and enhance foster family recruitment strategies in Forsyth County

• Crosby Scholars Community Partnership - $25,000 for strategic planning, an organization assessment, and a feasibility analysis  

• Delicious by Shereen - $12,000 for a feasibility analysis to pivot operations and implementation in service of immigrant communities

• Delta Arts Center - $42,500 for strategic planning, evaluation, technology improvements, and restructuring over two years

• Education Foundation for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools - $20,000 for consultation to help the board identify a vision and develop a strategic plan

• Hogar Del Inmigrante - $10,000 to support staff training and expand programs serving immigrant communities  

• IFB Solutions - $25,000 to improve e-commerce efficiency, financial management, and IT infrastructure

• Imprints Cares - $25,000 to establish a sustainable revenue stream through Medicaid billing

• Jim Shaw Ace Academy - $12,000 to support planning, marketing, training, and development activities

• Latino Community Services - $25,000 for strategic/succession planning and board/staff development

• LEAD Girls of NC - $42,500 for external consultation and a resource development position over two years  

• Love Literacy - $42,500 for a fundraising and development manager and consultation over two years

• Magnolia House Foundation - $16,500 for development planning

• MCEL (Men of Color in Educational Leadership) - $25,000 to develop and launch a "resilient representative leadership" digital training module  

• National Birth Coalition - $15,535 for strategic and feasibility planning

• North Carolina Tenants Union - $25,000 for an organizer position, as well as training and convening in Forsyth County

• Out at the Movies - $12,000 for finance consultation

• Planned Parenthood South Atlantic - $14,745 to support professional development and training for staff  

• Positive Wellness Alliance - $15,000 to support health equity training, outreach, and consultation

• Rejuvenation Support Services - $10,000 for a transportation coordinator

• Samaritan Ministries - $25,000 for strategic planning

• Senior Services - $25,000 for fundraising and governance support

• Shalom Project - $30,000 for a bilingual clinic coordinator over two years  

• Sunnyside Ministry - $5,000 for immigration training for staff  

• The Wells Center Inc. for Women in Transition - $10,000 for board/staff training and marketing assistance  

• Twin City Harm Reduction Collective - $9,100 for staff training and training tools  

• Una Bendicion - $54,750 for staff expansion over three years  

• United Health Centers - $40,000 for staff/board training, consultation, and advocacy over two years

• Wake Forest University Health Sciences - $42,500 for a community advisory council for stroke care over two years

• Winston-Salem Freedom Schools - $54,750 for an executive director over three years  

• Winston-Salem MIXXER - $25,000 for marketing and development assistance

• Winston-Salem Rescue Mission - $54,750 for an intake specialist over three years

• Yadkin Riverkeeper - $25,000 for succession planning

FOCUS AREA GRANTS‍

Focus Area Grants support local nonprofits working to advance equity in education and build an inclusive economy. These efforts are crucial to ensuring that Winston-Salem becomes a place where race no longer predicts life outcomes.  

• Anthony's Plot Community - $10,000 to support households purchasing affordable homes through the Equitable Homeownership Project

• Cyber Intelligence Transforming Youth - $75,300 to support an adult workforce cyber security certification training program  

• Financial Pathways of the Piedmont - $195,000 to support financial counseling and home ownership services over three years

• Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministries - $70,000 to expand Transition to Work services and support a transportation coordinator over two years

• Forsyth Technical Community College - $55,000 to provide coaching and small grants to Latinx businesses

• Hispanic League - $70,000 For a business development and fundraising coordinator over two years

• Main Street Academy Learning and Evaluation Consultant - $10,000 to support a learning steward

• Novant Health Foundation – Forsyth - $80,000 for the Upward Mobility program over two years

• School Justice Partnership - $35,000 to convene WS/FC Schools, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and community partners to develop trauma-informed discipline strategies and $10,000 to support a case study and develop action learning cohorts

• Simon Green Atkins Community Development Corporation - $25,000 to support the Women's Business Center in providing entrepreneurs with coaching and access to capital  

• The CARes Project Inc - $80,000 to provide accessible and affordable vehicle loans to individuals with limited income over two years

• Ujima Community Development Corporation - $70,000 for operational support over two years

• Winston-Salem Black Chamber of Commerce - $50,000 to improve the resilience of Black business owners and entrepreneurs through training and technical assistance over two years

• Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools - $78,000 to support Transition 2 Teach, which provides current teachers' assistants with a pathway to become certified classroom teachers

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SMALL GRANTS

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Small grants support organizations and groups with annual incomes of $150,000 or less.  

• Culturally Innovative Minds - $1,800 to establish a community garden

• Happy Hill Neighborhood Association - $1,957 for the 5th Annual HARRY VCO/Happy Hill Memorial Day Ceremony and Celebration  

• Helping Inspire Youth Invention & Entrepreneurial Leadership Development Program - $2,000 to prepare low-income youth for financial success in STEAM based invention and entrepreneurship

• Hogar Del Inmigrante - $2,000 to support the health and well-being of elderly Hispanic adults

• Love Community Development Corp - $1,400 to support and improve food safety in transport

• My FACE - $2,000 to provide mental health assistance to clients and mentees

• One Love Strong Foundation - $2,000 to support community pantry access

• Out at the Movies - $2,000 to support monthly screenings that amplify and celebrate LGBTQ+ stories and filmmakers

• Rejuvenation Support Services - $2,000 to support transportation for individuals in transition

• The Dream School - $1,500 to support a Smartphone Filmmaking and Cinematic Drone Summer Camp for youth

• The Feeling Friends Community Center for Culturally Responsive Emotional Intelligence - $2,000 to support research on the impact of culturally responsive emotional intelligence programs

• Triad Pride Performing Arts - $1,000 to support choral performance celebrating LGBTQ+ community in Winston-Salem

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OTHER GRANTS

• Action4Equity - $44,700 to support Justice for Every Child and $50,000 for a community engagement and project management consultant

• Asset Building Coalition of Forsyth County - $41,700 to support the Humane Housing Network

• Bookmarks - $5,000 to support the 2025 Book with Purpose community programming

• MUSE Winston-Salem - $2,500 to support the performance of "Love Songs from the Liberation"

• Preserve Historic Forsyth - $13,500 to support the nomination of the Bethania Freedmen's Community to the National Register of Historic Places

• Sympara Inc - $2,500 for program and convening costs of the 2025 cohort for Winston-Salem congregations

• WinstonNet - $10,000 for Digital Bridges Forsyth operating support