Community Action Programs

A principle activity of the North Carolina Fund was the awarding of grants to eleven community-based projects selected from fifty-one proposals representing sixty-six counties. The selected projects, known as Community Action Programs, were (with its headquarters):

• Charlotte Area Fund, Inc. (Charlotte)
• Choanoke Area Development Association Economic Opportunity Division (Murfreesboro)
• Craven Operation Progress, Inc. (New Bern)
• Experiment in Self Reliance, Inc. (Winston-Salem)
• Macon Program for Progress, Inc. (Franklin)
• Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development, Inc. (Rocky Mount)
• Operation Breakthrough, Inc. (Durham)
• The Opportunity Corporation (Asheville)
• Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council, Inc. (Salisbury)
• Tri-County Community Action, Inc. (Rockingham)
• WAMY Community Action, Inc. (Boone; WAMY = Watauga, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey counties)

Selecting a Community Action Program from the list and clicking on “Go” will execute a search on that program.