Strategic Partnership Funds Application Timeline Update The application for 2020-2021 Strategic Partnership Fund (SPF) application is not open at this time. The application release will be announced via the Community Development email listserv, as well as posted here. If you would like to receive email information about Strategic Partnership funding opportunities, please email Christina Harris / CD Coordinator / charris@ashevillenc.gov Please direct any additional questions about the Strategic Partnership Fund grant cycle to Paul D’Angelo / Community Development Program Director / pdangelo@ashevillenc.gov / 828 251 4098. We appreciate your patience as we work through this process to improve the Strategic Partnership Grant efforts. What are Strategic Partnership Funds (SPF)? Strategic Partnership Funds are locally paid for out of the City’s general fund. The Strategic Partnership Fund provides funding for nonprofit organizations that serve Asheville residents. Available funding and funding priorities are determined annually by the Asheville City Council. The Housing and Community Development Committee makes its funding recommendations to City Council. The purpose of the Fund is to directly support the Asheville City Council’s 2036 Vision. Proposals for funding each year must demonstrate how the applicant will directly support this vision. Priority is given to applicants that further the Asheville City Council’s Vision 2036 by: Creating opportunities for economic mobility. Addressing disparities in low-wealth neighborhoods, such as health, housing and educational inequities. Developing partnerships to support Asheville City Schools and programs that close the achievement gap. Improving food security and healthy food availability in food deserts. Providing support for small, local, homegrown and minority-owned businesses. Providing services that directly support affordable housing and increased employment opportunities, such as child care, transportation, and job training 2019-2020 Strategic Partnership Funding Agency and Program: Funding Recommendation: Asheville Writers in Schools and Communities-Word on the Street $7,500 Aspire Youth and Family- Kids at Work $5,000 Council on Aging Buncombe County- Service Coordinator for the City of Asheville $7,500 Hola Community Arts- Latino Partnership Program $3,333 Mt. Zion Community Development-Project Empower/ NAF $5,000 My Daddy Taught Me That-Youth In Public Housing Disparities $21,667 YMI Cultural Center- Restoring the YMI $10,838 YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina- Swim Equity $8,335 Asheville Art Museum Association-Early Literacy Through Art (ELTA) $1,667 Asheville Museum of Science-Closing the Achievement Gap through STEM Learning for Students and Families $10,000 Children First/ Communities in Schools- Claxton Student Support Specialist and Pisgah View $13,333 The Christine Avery Learning Center- CWA Early Learning Program $20,000 One Youth at a Time-Tutoring, Mentoring, and Education $2,662 Partners Unlimited-Academic Enhancement $16,667 Getting Back to the Basics- Community Summer Day Camp $3,167 Read to Succeed- Read to Succeed $9,667 Youth Transformed for Life-R.O.S.E.S. and M.O.S.S $21,667 Buncombe Partnership for Children – Early Childhood Workforce Development $10,667 Pisgah Legal Services-Tenant Eviction Response Program $13,333 Green Opportunities-GO YouthBuild Community Improvement Projects $13,333 YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina-Getting Ahead in a Just Getting By World $3,333 Aspire Youth and Family- Employ Youth $3,333 Community Action Opportunities-Life Works for the Justice Involved $4,000 Just Economics-Removing Barriers to Income Mobility $2,833 OnTrack Financial Education and Counseling-Volunteer Income Tax Assistance $7,333 River Front Development Group- African American Cultural Heritage Project $5,000 Bountiful Cities- Community Garden Network Support $3,333 last update: 3/13/20 Related Services MWSBE Certification Find information to register for certification as a Minority, Woman, and/or Small Business Enterprise (MWSBE) with the City of Asheville. Business Inclusion The Business Inclusion Office for the City of Asheville actively seeks to identify minority and women-owned businesses for an opportunity to participate as providers of goods and services to the city. Apply for a commercial film or photography permit Information about commercial filming and photography work involving city-owned property, sidewalks, streets, and parks. Apply for a special event or festival permit Information about hosting an event on city-owned property, sidewalks, streets and parks. Find cold weather emergency shelter When extreme cold weather is expected, the Asheville Homeless Coalition issues a Code Purple Alert. Participating homeless shelters voluntarily add space beyond their normal capacity to keep as many people as possible out of the cold. To find out when Code Purple is in effect, visit the Homeless Coalition’s Code [...] Find financial support for your Asheville business Learn about financial support that may be available for your business. Find or register a minority, women or disabled-owned business Resources for finding or registering a minority, women or disabled-owned business. More Related Services Strategic Partnership Funds News Asheville City Council votes to allocate $2 million toward Homeward Bound’s purchase of Days Inn for permanent supportive housing Posted on July 27, 2021 by Polly McDaniel In a continuing effort to partner with local agencies to mitigate the impacts of homelessness in our community the City of Asheville will help fund Homeward Bound’s acquisition of the Days Inn on Tunnel Road for permanent supportive housing for our homeless population. At their July 27 meeting, Asheville City Council approved a [...] Asheville City Council clears way for donation of 2 City-owned lots for affordable housing Posted on July 27, 2021July 29, 2021 by Polly McDaniel Two single-family lots will be donated to the Asheville Buncombe Community Land Trust so that the organization can build deeply affordable housing on them. The single family homes to be built on each lot will be permanently affordable to families at 60% and below the Area Median Income, at a target sales [...] An update on how the City of Asheville is addressing homelessness Posted on June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 by Angelica Driver Homelessness in Asheville has long been a serious and complex issue. The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and heightened this reality. While the homeless service system we’ve had in Asheville has ended homelessness for a small number of people annually, it’s never had the resources to operate at a scale that will make homelessness truly [...] More Strategic Partnership Funds News
MWSBE Certification Find information to register for certification as a Minority, Woman, and/or Small Business Enterprise (MWSBE) with the City of Asheville.
Business Inclusion The Business Inclusion Office for the City of Asheville actively seeks to identify minority and women-owned businesses for an opportunity to participate as providers of goods and services to the city.
Apply for a commercial film or photography permit Information about commercial filming and photography work involving city-owned property, sidewalks, streets, and parks.
Apply for a special event or festival permit Information about hosting an event on city-owned property, sidewalks, streets and parks.
Find cold weather emergency shelter When extreme cold weather is expected, the Asheville Homeless Coalition issues a Code Purple Alert. Participating homeless shelters voluntarily add space beyond their normal capacity to keep as many people as possible out of the cold. To find out when Code Purple is in effect, visit the Homeless Coalition’s Code [...]
Find financial support for your Asheville business Learn about financial support that may be available for your business.
Find or register a minority, women or disabled-owned business Resources for finding or registering a minority, women or disabled-owned business.
Asheville City Council votes to allocate $2 million toward Homeward Bound’s purchase of Days Inn for permanent supportive housing Posted on July 27, 2021 by Polly McDaniel In a continuing effort to partner with local agencies to mitigate the impacts of homelessness in our community the City of Asheville will help fund Homeward Bound’s acquisition of the Days Inn on Tunnel Road for permanent supportive housing for our homeless population. At their July 27 meeting, Asheville City Council approved a [...]
Asheville City Council clears way for donation of 2 City-owned lots for affordable housing Posted on July 27, 2021July 29, 2021 by Polly McDaniel Two single-family lots will be donated to the Asheville Buncombe Community Land Trust so that the organization can build deeply affordable housing on them. The single family homes to be built on each lot will be permanently affordable to families at 60% and below the Area Median Income, at a target sales [...]
An update on how the City of Asheville is addressing homelessness Posted on June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 by Angelica Driver Homelessness in Asheville has long been a serious and complex issue. The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and heightened this reality. While the homeless service system we’ve had in Asheville has ended homelessness for a small number of people annually, it’s never had the resources to operate at a scale that will make homelessness truly [...]