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our partners

At Dogwood, we couldn’t exist without our partners – the community organizations and government entities that are helping their fellow citizens live, learn, earn and thrive, without exception. Our partners have a shared vision of making the places we call home healthier, stronger, more inclusive, better educated, economically stable and more resilient today and for future generations.

Find out more about our partners’ stories and the positive outcomes our work together is bringing to Western North Carolina. Search by partner name, strategic priority area or county to find out about the amazing work being done to close gaps, clear roadblocks, pursue opportunities and apply imaginative ideas!

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Breaking Barriers Through Adventure: Waypoint’s Expanding Impact in Western North Carolina

When Jacob initially joined a small group of peers in the Leaders In Training (LIT) program to venture into the Western North Carolina (WNC) wilderness last summer, he was admittedly uncertain.
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Looking Back and at What’s Ahead for the Digital Opportunities Initiative

When it comes to our work on digital opportunities or any issue, our why always starts with the people who live here.
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Telling the Story – Court Delays & Foster Care in WNC

According to professionals who work within the child welfare system, time in foster care should be measured in minutes — not days, weeks or months.
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Power of Partnership: How Community-Led Solutions are Expanding Broadband Access

How can we bridge the digital divide in Western North Carolina (WNC)? For Through the Trees, the answer lies in our communities.
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Making headway — WNCSBI grants shore up small business recovery

Thousands of Western North Carolina small businesses have moved further down the road to recovery, thanks to grants from the public-private Western North Carolina Small Business Initiative (WNCSBI).
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Fueling Safer Futures at Helpmate with the Leverage Fund

With the rising rate and severity of domestic violence in Buncombe County, Helpmate’s crisis shelter for survivors fleeing intimate partner violence is bursting at the seams.
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Strategic Planning Grants Help WNC Communities Combat the Opioid Epidemic

The historic $26 billion national opioid settlement agreement is bringing millions to communities that experienced the devastating effects of opioid misuse and addiction.
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Lending an Ear — How Community Listening Sparked Progress in Child Welfare

In the fall of 2021, Dogwood Health Trust received a flurry of grant requests for emergency transitional housing for children in Western North Carolina (WNC) involved in the child welfare system.
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Better Together: WNC Afterschool Programs Collaborate to Serve Local Families

Childcare challenges for working families don’t end once kindergarten begins.
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Harnessing the Power of Local Leaders to Close WNC’s Digital Divide

Elevate Digital, one of 10 collaboratives funded by Dogwood’s Digital Opportunities Initiative, is working to make broadband internet more available, affordable and useful for people...
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Collaboration is Key to Increasing Broadband Access in WNC

When it comes to improving the health and wellbeing of all people in Western North Carolina (WNC), expanding access to broadband is a necessary part of the work.
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Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County

Like many working parents, Henderson County resident Brittny Hobkirk’s day begins long before the sun comes up.
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Verner Center for Early Learning

In a livelihood devoted to the care and development of society’s youngest members, Early Care and Education (ECE) professionals spend countless hours attending to the needs of young children.
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WNCSource

Early Care and Education (ECE) is a lifeline for families and young children across Western North Carolina (WNC), providing enriching experiences for young learners, allowing parents to work, and keeping local businesses running.
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Art with Heart

In spring 2025, a group of about 20 artists from Asheville nonprofit Open Hearts Art Center gathered at Dogwood Health Trust’s headquarters to commemorate the installation of their 12-foot by 20-foot collaborative mixed media piece.
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Mountain Housing Opportunities

MHO serves more than 2,000 households annually in Western North Carolina with apartment rentals, essential home repair, down payment assistance, and new home construction.
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Impact Health was uniquely positioned to rapidly engage organizations across the region in Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, thanks to the network of Health Serving Organizations that are part of the Healthy Opportunities Pilot (HOP) network that Impact Health manages in WNC.
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Rooted in the belief that local people are best at solving local problems, WNC Communities wasted no time in the days following Hurricane Helene to connect farm businesses and community centers with immediate resources.
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Tenge was thrilled her entrepreneurial dream came true, but two years after taking the helm at the cafe, Hurricane Helene devastated her mountain town and her storefront.
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WNCSBI & Karen Maugans

The day before Hurricane Helene engulfed Western North Carolina, artist Karen Maugans was working at her gallery in the River Arts District...
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Siquo Danvhna Cherokee Re-entry

The Siquo Danvhna, “They are living again,” Cherokee Re-entry team understands firsthand how powerful lived experience can be when it comes to reaching and serving tribal members of the Eastern Band Cherokee Indians (EBCI) who are re-joining the community following incarceration or court involvement.
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Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project

The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) is committed to creating strong farms, thriving local food economies and healthy communities where farming is valued as central to our heritage and our future.
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OASIS

OASIS is dedicated to ending domestic violence and sexual assault in Watauga and Avery counties by providing comprehensive emergency services, transitional support and a safe environment for survivors.
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FIRST

Collin Burgess was able to make a life change, thanks to a jail diversion program provided by FIRST at Blue Ridge, a North Carolina Licensed residential therapeutic community substance use disorders. 

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