PRESS RELEASE: The Foundation for a Healthy High Point Announces Spring 2025 Grant Awards
High Point, NC — The Foundation for a Healthy High Point announced its first round of grant awards for 2025, totaling $833,334 to support local initiatives that address root causes of health disparities and strengthen the systems that support well-being. These investments reflect the Foundation’s continued focus on upstream factors such as behavioral health, built environment, organizational capacity, youth development, and support for immigrants and refugees, that influence long-term community health outcomes. The funded efforts are grounded in equity, collaboration, and the belief that lasting change comes from building community power and partnerships.
“Each of these grants represents a step toward a healthier High Point, one that’s built on listening to communities, addressing root causes, and strengthening local leadership for the long term,” said Curtis Holloman, Executive Director of the Foundation for a Healthy High Point.
The approved Spring 2025 grant recipients are:
Behavioral Health
- Alcohol & Drug Services of Guilford, Inc. ($50,000): To support a second year of the Be Strong Families Parent Café model in High Point. With the first year of funding, ADS established a core group of community members and parents trained in the BSF Parent Café model and launched a Parent Café series in High Point. The organization will train a second cohort of parents and community members to host Parent Cafes and engage families, and will launch a Parent Leadership Circle advisory group.
Built Environment
- Southwest Renewal Foundation ($175,000): To support land use and zoning reforms that remove barriers to health equity in inner-city South High Point. SWRF will partner with city planners and a local organizer to launch a civic engagement series and create a Community Task Force focused on advancing equitable development, public health, and resident voice in planning decisions.
Capacity Building
- D-UP ($83,334): To continue its expansion of its work in the Washington Street neighborhood with the addition of two new staff positions, enabling the organization to focus on community development and strategic initiatives. D-UP provides wraparound services and programs promoting youth health, education, and life readiness while advancing neighborhood-level development.
- Mega Mission Ministries (M3) ($100,000): To strengthen its operational capacity, launch youth-led storytelling programs, and expand access to its Voices on Washington Street initiative. M3 operates the Community Writing Center in partnership with High Point University. It is developing a new student-run open mic series and a student-run podcast as part of the Voices on Washington Street program. The grant also supports adding student transportation.
- Success Hope Center ($150,000): To transition from a volunteer-led church-supported effort into a fully staffed, community-anchored organization providing multi-generational programs that span academic support, parenting education, and elder wellness. Programs include: Greater Success Study Hall, Parent Success Academy, and a Senior Day Program.
Immigrants & Refugees
- FaithAction International ($50,000): To continue its partnership with Triad Health Project by embedding case management services for immigrants and refugees directly in High Point. The grant also supports advocacy, education, and elevating the lived experiences of immigrant communities in High Point.
Youth Serving Organizations
- Beyond Sports ($80,000): To pilot a new program called Beyond Recess in three Title I elementary schools in High Point. The initiative aims to redesign recess as a tool for trauma-informed care, improving student engagement, behavior and academic outcomes. The effort supports both students and teachers to decrease behavioral incidents and increase school attendance and educational achievement scores.
- Resilience High Point on behalf of High Point Schools Partnership ($145,000): To formalize and grow a network of Youth Enrichment Providers (YEPs). The grant will support shared measurement, coordinated programming, and a new Capacity Building Fund to increase the quality and impact of youth services in High Point.
At the Foundation, we believe upstream investment is more than a strategy, it’s a responsibility. These grants reflect bold, local ideas that challenge the status quo and give communities the tools they need to lead. We invite community leaders, decision-makers, and the public to take note: real change is happening here in High Point, and the momentum is just beginning.
“This funding reflects our belief that communities know what they need, and that lasting solutions come from investing in their ideas, leadership, and resilience,” said Holloman.
A second round of funding will be awarded later in 2025. To learn more about eligibility, deadlines, and how to apply, visit www.healthyhighpoint.org.
In 2024, the Foundation awarded $1.8 million in new grant funding across 29 projects. Since its inception in 2013, the Foundation has invested nearly $19 million to support the Greater High Point community.
The Foundation for a Healthy High Point was established in 2013. Its mission is to collaboratively engage the Greater High Point community to transform upstream social influences that impact health and well-being. For more information about the Foundation for a Healthy High Point, visit www.healthyhighpoint.org