The Foundation for a Healthy High Point Announces Twelve New Impact Grant Awards
High Point, NC — The Foundation for a Healthy High Point, a private foundation that collaboratively engages the Greater High Point community to transform upstream social influences that impact health and well-being, today announced its Spring 2026 Impact Grant awards.
The Foundation today announced twelve nonprofit organizations serving community health needs in High Point will receive a combined total of $898,574. Applications were accepted in Spring, with funding cycles beginning July 1.
The grants support program expansion, nonprofit capacity-building and collaborative efforts addressing underlying health factors, such as behavioral health, early childhood education and literacy, housing, food access, economic mobility, youth and family support, and civic engagement.
The Spring Impact Awards include capacity building support, programming, and collaborative partnerships which directly impact social determinants of health through either operational support or programmatic funding. Areas of note include:
- Expanding youth and family support: Programs that promote literacy, mentorship, leadership development, sports participation, parenting resilience, including reading, mental health, and opportunities for economic mobility for low-to-moderate income youth, parents, and caregivers.
- Building nonprofit capacity: General operating support for organizations addressing critical gaps in services and access related to improving social determinants of health in the community.
- Strengthening upstream conditions for health: Investments in collaborative efforts that bring together the strengths of multiple organizations for shared resources and stronger impact.
- Supporting immigrant and new refugee families through mentorship, access to resources, and community navigation support.
“These grants reflect a lot of what we are seeing and hearing in the community right now,” said Curtis Holloman, Executive Director of the Foundation for a Healthy High Point. “Housing, food access, mental health, education, and economic opportunity – all are connected to health. These investments support organizations working on those issues in different ways, while building on the strengths and resources already present across High Point.”
The Impact Award grant recipients are:
Access to Care
- Veterans Bridge Home ($20,000): A new funded partner in High Point, funding helps to increase access to healthcare through partnership referrals, providing a more integrated approach to care coordination for veterans and their families. VBH has supported veterans and active service families across North Carolina with housing, healthcare, employment and other services since 2011.
Behavioral Health
- Alcohol & Drug Services of Guilford ($50,000): Funding provides continued support for the Be Strong Families Parent Cafés, a peer-to-peer mentoring and parent training program, allowing ADS to deepen the training for parent/caregiver facilitators and expand Café locations. ADS of Guilford offers substance use prevention and treatment services.
- Open Door Ministries ($18,000): Funding supports expanded access to on-site mental health counseling for individuals experiencing homelessness and will provide emergency intervention training to frontline client-facing staff members. Open Door Ministries serves families and individuals experiencing homelessness and food insecurity.
Capacity Building
- Guilford Nonprofit Consortium ($150,000): This funding provides general operating support, enabling the Consortium to strengthen Guilford County-based nonprofit organizations through workshops and trainings, coaching, mentorship, and other programming that helps organizations experiencing changes in governance, leadership and capacity-building needs. The Consortium is a collaboration between funders and nonprofits, supporting more than 300 members.
- YWCA High Point ($225,000): Support through this grant adds staffing capacity to the Latino Family Center, enabling the Center to expand programs and services to the Latinx community, such as academic and youth support through Avance clubs at local high schools, GED and ESOL training for adults and families, and civic engagement trainings for immigrants. The YWCA has worked to eliminate racism in High Point since 1920, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, dignity and freedom for all.
Early Childhood / Education
- Growing the Distance ($25,000): Funding provides support for Bright Beginnings, a pre-K program for 3-to-4 year-olds from low-income families from the Greater High Point area, building foundational skills in literacy, language and mathematics to help prepare children for success in kindergarten. Growing the Distance was established to serve underserved communities in High Point through STEM-based after school programming.
Economic Stability
- BackPack Beginnings ($29,000): Funding supports expanded capacity for Beyond the Basics, a personalized coaching program for parents and caregivers, providing direct family support, coaching, and referrals to resources such as employment support, mental health services, and housing assistance. BackPack Beginnings currently partners with community partners to provide essential resources for families experiencing economic hardship.
- Housing Authority of the City of High Point ($60,750): Support from the Foundation will expand the Seeds-to-Success Initiative. This program provides education, job training and financial literacy along with workforce development opportunities to low-to-moderate income youth and young adults who are residents of High Point Housing Authority properties.
Food Security
- Out of the Garden Project ($38,352): Funding establishes two additional sites for Fresh Mobile Markets, in partnership with Community Collaboration for Children (C3) and The Bridge. Fresh Mobile Markets are free, mobile grocery stores which operate monthly at various locations in High Point and provide roughly 50lbs of fresh food and pantry staples per household served. Out of the Garden Project addresses food insecurity by recovering food surplus and converting it to provide consistent access to nutritional groceries for families most in need.
Housing
- Community Housing Solutions of Guilford ($100,000): Funding supports the development of a strategic partnership between Community Housing Solutions and Senior Resources of Guilford to expand the Aging Gracefully program to provide mobility-related home repairs as well as connect low-income adults in High Point to Occupational Therapy and Registered Nurse visits.
Workforce Development
- Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina ($107,472): Funding supports expansion of the Careers on the Outside program, providing workforce development and reentry services for justice-involved individuals, by adding a career navigator in High Point. The High Point-based navigator will help with case management and removal of any barriers to work as well as job readiness training, interview preparation, workplace and basic computer skills, and access to background-friendly employers.
- World Relief High Point ($75,000): Funding allows World Relief to pilot a new program in support of refugee and immigrant youth and young adults, utilizing a cohort-based and individualized coaching model to support language proficiency, résumé development, certification exploration, employer networking and job placement opportunities.
“The Funded Partners in this cycle reflect a shared commitment to addressing the issues that shape health and well-being in our community,” Holloman said. “Grantmaking is an important part of what we do, but we also want to connect people and ideas, strengthen partnerships, and support community-led solutions that build on the work already happening across High Point.”
With these Spring 2026 awards, the Foundation has approved more than $22 million in grant funding since its inception, representing more than 300 grants supporting organizations and initiatives serving the Greater High Point community.
The Foundation solicits funding requests twice each year, in the Spring and Fall, for grants of more than $10,000. A Small Grants program for requests of $10,000 or less is available year-round, along with a Grant Writing Assistance Fund to help nonprofits strengthen funding proposals and pursue additional resources.
The Foundation is currently accepting Letters of Interest for its Fall Impact Grants to be awarded in December. The deadline for submitting an LOI is August 13 at 3pm. Details on the Fall grant cycle as well as other opportunities, such as the Grant Writing Assistance Fund and our Small Grants program, are available on our website: Grantmaking – Healthy High Point
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.