C3 Community Collaboration for Children
Life Skills – Building Resiliency for Better Tomorrows
C3 uses an innovative approach for multi-agency collaboration for children and their families impacted by trauma, violence, and poverty. The grant provides the Life Skills classes that will focus on: money management, parenting skills, coping skills & mental health awareness, job training, time management, nutritional and cost-wise meal preparation, steps to maintaining a safe and orderly living environment, cleanliness and hygiene techniques, setting and keeping goals, health and personal growth, how to communicate effectively, practice healthy habits, child rearing and setting parameters as a parent, how to be an involved parent with the school, personal time, protecting oneself and children from abuse, and understanding legal rights.
Community Housing Solutions of Guilford, Inc
Allowing High Point Senior Women to Age in Place
Community Housing Solutions (CHS) makes Guilford Co. homes warmer, drier and safer by providing repairs and ownership opportunities to low-income homeowners. The grant money will go to CHS’s Aging Gracefully Program that serves low-income seniors that will allow these low-income senior women in this program with a goal of enrolling 15 senior women this year. Many of these women are also helping care for or raise their grandchildren in their homes. Some of the repairs will be converting baths to walk-in showers, install installation of access bars, handrails, ADA-height toilets, and build access ramps.
Growing High Point
FarmHer Project
Growing High Point (GHP) strives to strengthen the local food system by increasing access to healthy food in underserved communities while fostering job opportunities in urban agriculture. This grant allows GHP to support the next generation of women farmers and their families. FarmHers will earn $15 per hour, increasing their household income while learning the highly transferrable skill of farming. These women will also be introduced to agribusiness and have the opportunity to explore and test ideas alongside other women farmers, all without financial risk to their families. They can bring their children to the farms, introducing them to the principles of growing plants and healthy eating.
Lydia House, Inc.
Talk it Through: Empowering Women, Transforming Lives
Lydia House provides for the basic needs of women who seek help including counseling, food, clothing, housing referrals, and resources for them to sustain themselves and their families. The funds help women get out of the cycle of poverty and crisis by helping them deal with unresolved trauma, financial instability, and a lack of access to essential resources such as affordable childcare, transportation, and stable employment.
Tiny House Community Development
Women NCCER Core Construction Program
Tiny House provides supportive housing, social services & education to those experiencing homelessness & poverty in the Triad. The grant will be used to provide funding for the women who have budgetary barriers that want to lift themselves out of their current financial situation by registering and learning the trade skills offered in the NCCER Core construction class. These women will learn trade skills and receive a national certification that will ensure quick employment by construction firms so they can financially support their household.
West End Ministries
True Success Begins with Training, Teaching & Life Skills
West End Ministries (WEM) provides essential support and resources to individuals in crisis while fostering long-term change. Leslie’s House at WEM is the largest women’s shelter in Guilford Co that provided shelter for 257 women in 2024. This funding will help increase and enhance the capacity of programs at Leslie’s House, including the Life Skills Program: speakers and trainers on life skill workshops, staffing & equipment to lead workshops. This program will lift up, encourage, and provide resources/training opportunities for women in our community.
