2022 Grant Recipient ($250,000): This grant will support scholarships for underserved students.
2022 Grant Recipient ($250,000): This grant will support capital improvements to establish a childcare center.
2023 Grant Recipient ($5,500,000): This grant supports Cape Fear Community College Foundation’s (CFCC) aims to broaden its impact on high school students by discovering and connecting with individuals interested in advanced manufacturing and other industry sectors. The goal is to provide students with post-secondary education, career pathways, and apprenticeship opportunities. Participation in these programs can pave the way to secure local employment in high-demand fields with competitive wages.
2023 Grant Recipient (10,153,633): Cape Fear Community College, New Hanover County Schools, the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s College of Health and Human Services and the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce are partnering to revolutionize the health care talent landscape by prioritizing the recruitment, training, and retention of skilled professionals in New Hanover County.
2024 Grant Recipient ($200,000): We are requesting funding for capacity building & general operating. We are an affordable housing developer (both rental and for sale), and we are needing to grow our organization in order to have a more meaningful impact on the Wilmington Area. Our partners at Cape Fear Collective have numerous homes that we would be able to remodel and preserve in the land trust model if we had more support.
2025 Grant Recipient ($5,000): The grant funded a promotional campaign to increase awareness of community land trusts, reduce stigma around affordable housing, and grow long-term community support.
2025 Grant Recipient ($350,000): The grant supported the acquisition of homes to create permanently affordable homeownership opportunities through the community land trust model.
2026 Grant Recipient ($172,843.74): The Construction Career Skills Training Program will provide students with foundational construction knowledge, workplace safety certification, and essential employability skills that align with regional workforce needs. The program will provide students with direct access to residential construction employers to achieve job placement goals and help students transition to the workforce.
2026 Grant Recipient ($3,000,000): To expand and strengthen the pre-apprenticeship to apprenticeship pipeline by creating a unified Apprenticeship Department with dedicated staff. Nationwide, and with bipartisan support, apprenticeships are experiencing a resurgence as a critical “earn-and-learn” model to address labor shortages, enhance workforce development, being scaled across industries and providing alternatives to traditional four-year college degrees.