50 S French Broad Ave
Asheville, NC 28801
828-253-1255 Fax 828-253-1250
THE BLOCK off biltmore: Thirsty for Diversity. Local Craft Brews, Sustainable Wines, Classic Cocktails & Vegan Bites. Converge at Asheville’s first EcoVegan, Social Justice, Diversity Bar in the beautiful YMI Building (ca. 1893); celebrating the block's history, culture and charm. Feed your spirit - enjoy live music, art, poetry, film, conversation, fun! Serving local craft beers, classic cocktails, sustainable wines, handmade elixirs, artisanal sodas and organic, non-GMO bites. Where progressives meet and radical magic happens! Where your drink makes a difference!
Vision Every resident of our service area will have access to a regular source of Primary Health Care. We are a human rights-based federally-qualified community health center in Asheville, NC. Our Primary Health Care practice is characterized by: Accessibility: Providing culturally competent care, when our patients need it, at a cost individuals and the community can sustain. Comprehensiveness: Addressing the main health issues of the community and providing preventive, acute, and chronic disease care through a multidisciplinary team of professional, paraprofessional, and lay workers. Continuity: Coordinating life-long care across all parts of the service continuum. Participation: Supporting our patients’ engagement in all aspects of health care—from self-management to policy-making. Quality: Systematically promoting safety, implementing evidence-based care, and tracking health outcomes. We value Equity: Taking affirmative steps to reduce unnecessary and unjust disparities in health care access and outcomes. Solidarity: Protecting the vulnerable from undue financial hardship and keeping costs reasonable and shared by all according to means. Inclusion: Embracing diversity and consciously involving the underprivileged in the opportunities offered by our organization. Commitment: Expecting a strong work ethic from all our employees in order to run a reliable social enterprise.
Asheville Area Arts Council offers diverse programming to serve a wide range of creative professionals and community members. NEW! The Buncombe Cultural Alliance is a group of cross sector stakeholders that ensures the health of arts, culture, and entertainment in Buncombe County. We do this through advocacy, and through the creation of community and economic development strategy on behalf of arts, culture and entertainment. NEW! Exhibition Program: Point Of View, artist curate artists: The Asheville Area Arts Council Gallery exhibitions are developed by collection of creative professionals representing various disciplines acting as curators. Their selections are based on artistic merit and pursuant to the AAAC’s intent to illuminate the breadth and depth of Asheville/Buncombe’s creative sector. Kids Tixx: Through the Kids Tix Program, the Arts Council is able to provide access to wonderful cultural experiences not always in the budget for some of Buncombe County’s families. Kids Tix provides admission for one child and one adult to local arts and cultural events, exhibits and more. Artist’s Curriculum: The Asheville Area Arts Council provides free and affordable professional development opportunities to Asheville Area Artists. The AAAC, partnering with Asheville-Buncombe Technical College, developed the Certificate of Creative Business Management Program, a part of AB Tech’s Continuing Education and Workforce Development Programs. Creative Sector Summit: The Downtown Master Plan Arts & Culture Subcommittee, led by the Asheville Area Arts Council, hosts the Annual Creative Sector Summit. Over 170 participants contributed to the 2011 Summit, representing independent entrepreneurs from every discipline, arts organizations, economic development agencies, public workers, and more. Each day includes presentations from speakers representing non-profit, City, and State agencies; breakout discussions conducted to gain feedback regarding perceived opportunities, needs, challenges in the creative community; opportunities to network and exchange ideas; and the opportunity to fill out creative sector survey. NEW! The Asheville Art in the Park Arts & Community Grant: Grant is being offered to qualifying committed artists in the WNC region in order to enhance public spaces and increase awareness of local artists and the importance their role within the community. Regional Artist Project Grant: Grants in the amount of $400-1200 are awarded annually to provide financial support for committed, accomplished artists by funding a project pivotal to a career in their respective art forms. This grant is sponsored by the Asheville Area Arts Council, Avery County Arts Council, Madison County Arts Council, and the Toe River Arts Council as well as Buncombe, Madison, Mitchell and Yancey counties for 2011-2012. Support is provided by the North Carolina Arts Council, with additional contributions by the aforementioned arts councils. Annual Color Ball: Over 500 art supporters dressed in their finest monochromatic regalia come together annually for Asheville’s most talked-about party of the year! Each year a different color is chosen, and Asheville Area Arts Council takes that color to the extreme! From decor to cocktails and even the guests, the entire evening is saturated with the theme color. The Color Ball features live painting and performances like you’ve never seen before in Asheville! From musical and dance performances to acrobatics and face-painting, the excitement of this arts-filled event is palpable.
In partnership with various artists, thinkers, and groups throughout the community, Apothecary presents a variety of creative events: performances, installations, community functions, lectures, film screenings, educational events, workshops, showcases of independently published print and media, and other wholesome happenings. For inquiry on booking, etc. contact: [email protected] 919-609-3944 919-793-5441
HandMade in America is a unique community and economic development non-profit organization that plays a vital role in growing a sustainable, thriving economy in Western North Carolina. We believe craft, heritage, and culture are key investments for personal, community, and economic growth. In our program work, we combine these passions by training local craft entrepreneurs the skills they need to be innovative small business owners, and we help rural communities in our region spark economic renewal through asset-based creative placemaking. Check out this short feature for more of what we do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fseigmzw0U&feature=youtu.be
AUTHENTIC AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN VIBES! Vendors! Workshops! Interactive Activities! Youth Art Showcase! Youth Performers! Kenyan Safari Acrobats! West African Dancers! Reggae! Steel Drums! Community Organizers and Leaders! Dance Competition! AND SOO MUCH MORE!! Come see what Asheville has to celebrate! Musical performances from... ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT 20 Year Anniversary!! @ THE ORANGE PEEL! COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE ~AfroBEAT Jonathan Scales Fourchestra~ Steel Drums CRUCIAL FIYA ~ Reggae Kevin Spears "Kalimba Man" ~ Electronic / Traditional Kalimba MAF MADDIX~ Conscious Hip Hop The Beast ~ Hip Hop Jazz LYRIC~ Soul Fusion Ruby Mayfield ~Blues Sax DATIRIAN JONSON ~ RnB Soul Leisha J~ Jazz DAWN!~ Soul Youth AT Jazz! MORE HEADLINERS TO BE ANNOUNCED... Special Guest Performances... PANTHER GOD D-MILLZ ~~~~Partnering Organizations~~~~ Asheville City Schools Children's First Highland Community Center AmeriCorps PROJECT POWER Randolph Learning Center Asheville City Schools Foundation .... Many more to come..... Please stay tuned for more updates!
Together, the Asheville Downtown Association board and members support the vitality of downtown through public advocacy, political involvement and community events. Membership is open to any person or organization interested in supporting the downtown community. Members reflect a wide variety of residents, property owners, business professionals, retailers and restaurants.
Last year over 300 walker gathered in Pack Square Park to celebrate survivors, and raise over $30,000. The route begins at Pack Square meadering through Asheville neighborhoods in a fairly easy walk. Runners are welcome to start the walk but this is not a timed event.
Community is Brewing is a transparent and open organization nurturing a Craft Lifestyle. Located in the oldest African-American business district in the United States of America, we share space with THE BLOCK off Biltmore, actively promoting multiculturalism and diversity together. Transparency. Openmindedness. Communication. Community is Brewing is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Founded in 1989, Mountain BizWorks is a U.S. Treasury certified non-profit community development financial institution (CDFI) serving Western North Carolina. Mountain BizWorks provides loans and learning opportunities to emerging and established small businesses in Western North Carolina. We have a particular focus on working with businesses unable to access bank financing, as well as low-income, minority, women, and immigrant entrepreneurs, and businesses that operate within the local food system. Mountain BizWorks’ focus is the full range of small business development – from start-ups to existing businesses that aim to grow and create jobs.
Asheville Folk is a creative space focused on community, collaboration and all things good. Our coworking space in the south slope opened August 1st!
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County focuses on reducing the impact of poverty on the lives of families and communities by anchoring all our work around the issues of Education, Income and Health, using 4 key strategies to make change possible: • Middle School Success - anchored support for middle school students, their families and their communities. With our partners, we are building hubs of support in three pilot schools: Enka, Erwin and Asheville Middle. (Our goal is to be in all middle schools by 2020.) • NC 2-1-1 connects people to the health and human services they need. This is a free service, for speakers of all languages, and is available 24/7/365. • Hands On Asheville-Buncombe mobilizes the power of volunteers to support the efforts of our local nonprofit community and our own initiatives. • Education, Income and Health Grants to Nonprofit Programs. Last year we distributed more than 2.2 million dollars in funding for area programs providing services for everyone, from infants to elders, across our area. We want to make our community a better place to live for ALL of our residents. By partnering with local nonprofits, area businesses, government, volunteers and subject matter experts, and by mobilizing our community to take action through giving, advocating and volunteering, we are able to focus on solving key issues in our community.
FEAST aims to increase the number of students in Buncombe County who grow, prepare and eat fresh produce as a part of their daily lives. Increasing exposure to gardening and cooking, alongside our hands-on learning experiences connected to the Common Core Standards, will not only allow for increased academic learning but can foster a connection between school, home environment and personal nutrition. Our students develop improved critical thinking skills and carry the knowledge of growing and eating healthy foods with them throughout their lives.
Girls on the Run is a physical activity-based positive youth development program for 3rd-8th grade girls with a mission to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident.
Just Economics of Western North Carolina (JE) is a regional, membership organization based in Asheville, NC. Our mission is to educate, advocate, and organize for a just and sustainable economy that works for all in Western North Carolina. JE was born out of the Asheville-Buncombe Living Wage Campaign, an effort that initially began in 2000, but took root in 2006. This coalition of faith, labor, and community groups succeeded in passing the first living wage ordinance in our region, which guarantees Asheville City employees a living wage. But we knew that the city ordinance was just a start. To have a substantial impact, we needed to dig in for the long term, develop a stronger organizational base, and take the living wage campaign beyond the city workforce and into the private sector. In 2007, Just Economics became the organizational home for the Asheville-Buncombe Living Wage Campaign. We raised funds for an office and staff, and–with support from foundations, local organizations, and a growing membership–we are running an expanded living wage campaign and becoming an effective voice for economic sustainability and justice in our region. Together, our members are working to shape the economic development of Western North Carolina in a way that benefits everyone and promotes a sustainable future. We aim to have a membership that reflects the diversity of our community, with an intentional focus on leadership from low-wage workers and others most affected by the issues we work on.
Carolina Public Press, a nonprofit online news service, provides Western North Carolina with unbiased, in-depth and investigative reporting as well as educational opportunities to journalists, students and others.
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To grow awareness of inequality in our community, the ABCRC implements four key programs: -Resource, referral, and education for claims of discrimination We serve as a neutral, third-party to assist individuals in addressing issues of discrimination in housing, employment, public safety, businesses, and schools. -Fair Housing Outreach and Education We serve as the local Fair Housing expert entity, providing community presentations on various Fair Housing topics, as well as assistance in navigating the formal complaint process for housing discrimination. -Police Community Relations We host meetings and forums with community members and City and County law enforcement officers, to facilitate healthy dialogue and working relationships. We also assist in the navigation of the police complaint process. -Diversity and Inclusion Trainings We provide trainings to non-profits, businesses, and institutions to help individuals strengthen their understanding of diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency.
The program was built on four key concepts: Partnership: Community Care of Western North Carolina is lead by local primary care physicians and key community leaders, including representatives from area Hospitals, Public Health Departments, the Local Management Entity for Mental Health and Department of Social Services. Health Management: Community Care of Western North Carolina looks at all Medicaid patients to identify at-risk enrollees to aid in the management of their care before he or she requires costly interventions. Quality Improvement: Utilization management, disease management, and care management services are combined to improve quality of care. Cost Management and Accountability: Community Care of Western North Carolina works to meet cost management objectives defined by the state. Under these guidelines, primary health care is strengthened and patients receive better health care.
This is a collaboration of several individuals and organizations including: Community Care of WNC, CarePartners, Fourseasons, Mission Hospital, Council on Aging of Buncombe County, Land of Sky Area Agency on Aging, Buncombe County DSS, Smoky Mountain Center, MAHEC, OLLI , WNC Health Advocates, JLC,.
Asheville has a large population of young struggling families and single parent homes. These families face many hardships, including finding funds to support after school activities, improper diet and exercise leading to childhood obesity, bullying and self esteem issues, and lots of unstructured free time. We are working to fill those voids with after school and summer programs, giving our participants an outlet that relieves some of those everyday struggles. Our program includes classes such as Wrestling, Boxing, Kickboxing, Submission Grappling, Sport Performance Training and Anti-Bullying/Self Defense, giving our students a sense of self-worth, discipline and direction, while keeping them off the streets. Triple G is also the home of talented professional athletes such as Kodey Gulley and World class wrestler Veronica Carlson. With a strong team of coaches and athletes children will be provided with excellent teaching as well as role models. We are based out of a beautiful building in downtown Asheville. Space has been kindly donated to the program by Summit Church. This ensures that all donations will go directly to construction, equipment costs, and student scholarships. Your donation would be tax deductible and will allow our program to maximize our space and help as many people as possible in the new year.
Jesus came to serve the Least of These and that is what this ministry is all about. The ministry provides the homeless community with food, clothes, food to take with them, hygiene products, and the occasional opportunity for a haircut. "With ever breath I breathe, with ever song I sing, I want to shout it out Lord I am listening. To every word you speak I'll go where you will lead. To love the Least of These is my greatest offering."
Homeward Bound of WNC ends homelessness by moving people into permanent housing, and providing the support they need. 89% of the people we've moved into housing are still housed. We receive public and private funding to do our work. If you'd like to be part of the solution, please visit our website and donate today! http://www.homewardboundwnc.org/donate-money/
Visit or call any of our three locations: Buncombe County 40 N French Broad Ave Suite B Asheville, NC 28801 (828)251-6089 Henderson/Polk Counties 101 S Grove Street Hendersonville, NC 28792 (828)697-7055 Transylvania County 137 North Broad St., Suite 1 Brevard, NC 28712 (828)877-3815
There are several ways to help Helios Warriors. By supporting Helios Warriors with your tax-deductible donation, we are able to provide services that continue to support, educate and heal our service men and women. Many of these veterans have limited or no income and therefore do not have the funds to pay for these therapies. We accept private and group donations. You can make donations online at www.HeliosWarriorsWNC.org. We are looking for volunteers in the following areas: Holistic Practitioners Administrative Support / Office Staff Board Members Board Advisors If you have an interest in any of the above, please contact us at ( 828) 299-0776 or email at [email protected]
Liberty Corner Enterprises, Inc. (LCE) is a non-profit agency providing services and support to individuals with developmental disabilities since 1987. LCE specializes in serving adults with co-occurring mental illness and developmental disabilities. LCE serves individuals across Western North Carolina and maintains contractual relationships and Memorandum of Agreements with Smoky Mountain LME and Western Highlands LME. LCE contracts with the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation and Division of Services for the Blind in providing vocational services and support. Further, the agency is an affiliate of the Helen Keller National Center. The agency participates in the North Carolina Council of Community Programs Compliance Review. Liberty Corner Enterprises also serves as the property manager for properties developed by W.N.C. Housing Inc.