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The Pardee Hospital Foundation announced the 2022 Physician of the Year and Philanthropist of the Year during its annual gala, A Black Tie Affair, on Saturday at Blue Ridge Community College. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee Hospital Foundation | physicians | philanthropy
St. James Charities Foundation is currently accepting grant applications from agencies and organizations serving Henderson County for the 2022 grant cycle. Read Story »
Tags: philanthropy | charities | St. James Episcopal Church
In its sixth year of providing support for local nonprofits, the Horizon Heating and Air Conditioning Charitable Giving Program announced 2022 grant recipients. Read Story »
Tags: philanthropy
Interfaith Assistance Ministry, the Hendersonville-based crisis services agency that provides emergency relief for families in need, will now be able to help even more people after receiving a multi-year grant from Bank of America. Read Story »
Tags: philanthropy | banking | Interfaith Assistance Ministry | Bank of America
The Association of Fundraising Professionals Western North Carolina Chapter is celebrating National Philanthropy Day in a virtual event at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17, that will honor Horizon Heating & Air of Hendersonville and others. Read Story »
Tags: fundraiser | fundraisers | philanthropy | Horizon Heating & Air
Bidding for the 2021 Bearfootin’ Art Walk bears will begin virtually on Tuesday and continue until 6 p.m. Oct. 16, when bidders, bear artists and nonprofits will celebrate the end of the 2021 Bearfootin' season. Read Story »
Tags: philanthropy | Bearfootin bear
The Community Foundation of Henderson County has awarded $182,600 from their Community Grants cycle to nine area organizations and projects in recent weeks, the foundation announced. Read Story »
Tags: Community Foundation of Henderson County | non-profit organizations | philanthropy | non-profits
Donna and Sandy Hastie, a "formidable combined force of nature" who have led philanthropic and organizational efforts to benefit youth, the performing arts, the war on cancer and more, have been named this year's winners of the Rob and Ginger Cranford Community Service Award. Read Story »
Tags: United Way | Donna Hastie | philanthropy | Sandy Hastie | Rob and Ginger Cranford Award
Just a few days after moving from New York City to Flat Rock in 2016, David and Sharon Leiman set out to explore the arts in their new community. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | philanthropy
Little did Rachel Balson realize, as she checked the box to be an organ donor on her first North Carolina driver’s license, how God would use her decision. Read Story »
Tags: philanthropy | Chick-fil-A | Joel Benson
A newly created emergency response fund to assist Henderson County nonprofits responding to the coronavirus crisis received a $100,000 gift this week from Chuck and Jean McGrady, Mike McGrady, and Kathy McGrady. Read Story »
Tags: Chuck McGrady | philanthropy | Jean McGrady | COVID-19 charity
Albert Lyons, who has volunteered in the Etowah community for more than 30 years in the volunteer fire service, Boy Scouts and his church's food pantry, was honored Monday night with the second Dot Marlow Philanthropic Catalyst Award during the Vintage Carolina fundraiser of the Community Foundation. Read Story »
Tags: fundraisers | philanthropy | Vintage Carolina
The AdventHealth Hendersonville Foundation welcomed nine new members to its board of directors recently. Read Story »
Tags: philanthropy | AdventHealth
Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation has received a $1.75 million bequest from the estate of Liselotte R. Wehrheim, the single largest single gift from an individual in the history of the college. Read Story »
Tags: BRCC | philanthropy | scholarships
The Henderson County school system and the Henderson County Education Foundation will launch “Comfort Food,” a grassroots initiative funded by donors Brian and Gina Grossman to feed local children facing food insecurity during the winter break. Read Story »
Tags: Brian Grossman | philanthropy
Kim Hinkelman, executive director of Pardee Hospital Foundation, will retire at the end of December after eight years at Pardee and 45 years in the nonprofit world, Pardee UNC Health Care announced on Friday. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee Hospital Foundation | philanthropy | Kim Hinkelman
Thrive, a nonprofit organization that assists individuals in psychiatric crisis to move from surviving the crisis to thriving in the community of their choice, has hired a new full-time development associate to raise funds for the organization. Read Story »
Tags: fundraiser | non-profit organizations | philanthropy | Thrive
The Pardee Hospital Foundation honored the hospital's Physician of the Year and Philanthropist of the Year during the foundation's annual gala attended by 350 guests at Horse Shoe Farm on Saturday. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee | philanthropy | Dr. Werner Brooks | Greg Burnette
The Community Foundation of Henderson County made $228,890 in grant awards through the Perry N. Rudnick Endowment, the Community Grant process and an emergency request. Read Story »
Tags: Community Foundation of Henderson County | philanthropy
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To understand the charitable spirit of Rakesh and Dolly Agarwal, you have to go back 31 years to their arrival in Hendersonville from India with nothing but $20 and a desire to pursue the American dream. Read Story »
Norm Gordon recalls a traumatic time when his mother fell ill in 1961. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee Hospital | philanthropy | Pardee Comprehensive Cancer Center | Norm Gordon | Marilyn Gordon
The Community Foundation of Henderson County received more than $3.6 million in contributions, had more than $77.6 million in assets and awarded more than $2.49 million in grants to nonprofits and scholarship recipients this past fiscal year, the foundation said in its annual report. Read Story »
Tags: Community Foundation of Henderson County | Richard C. and Vina L. Sauer Charitable Leadership Award | non-profit organizations | philanthropy
Nominations are being accepted for the Richard C. and Vina L. Sauer Charitable Leadership Award, presented each year by the Community Foundation of Henderson County to honor a local philanthropist who makes a difference in our community. Read Story »
Tags: Richard C. and Vina L. Sauer Charitable Leadership Award | non-profit organizations | philanthropy
FLAT ROCK — Annie Fritschner, a longtime volunteer, non-profit fundraising expert and ordained minister, was honored as the 2013 Vanessa Y. Mintz Athena Award winner during a luncheon Thursday at Kenmure Country Club. Read Story »
Tags: Volunteers | volunteerism | Athena Award | non-profit organizations | philanthropy | Annie Fritschner