Affiliate Funds
Black Mountain - Swannanoa Valley Endowment Fund Cashiers Community Fund The Fund For Haywood County Highlands Community Fund The McDowell Endowment The Fund for Mitchell County Rutherford County Endowment Transylvania Endowment The Yancey Fund
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Black Mountain - Swannanoa Valley Endowment Fund Cashiers Community Fund The Fund For Haywood County Highlands Community Fund The McDowell Endowment The Fund for Mitchell County Rutherford County Endowment Transylvania Endowment The Yancey Fund
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Making an impact

Meet Ruby Begley

Marcus and I came to the Swannanoa Valley as a young couple with no resources, but lots of hopes and dreams. For us and our family, now four generations, this community has provided wonderful opportunities for family, business, faith, school, civic and cultural relationships. This special community has played a vital role in raising and shaping the life values of our family’s children, grandchildren, and now, great-grandchildren. Promoting and supporting our local endowment is the very best way for us to pay our gratitude forward, so that many others in our Valley can thrive.

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How to Donate

Donate online or send a check made out to "CFWNC" with "BMSVEF" in the memo line to the address below. (Please note that checks not made out to CFWNC may be returned.)

Or mail a check to:

CFWNC
4 Vanderbilt Park Square, Ste. 300
Asheville, NC 28803
Memo: Black Mountain - Swannanoa Valley Endowment Fund

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Waypoint Adventure received $6,890 for an outdoor program that serves adults with physical challenges and to purchase an adaptive off-road wheelchair.  Photo courtesy of Waypoint Adventure.

Since 1999, the Black Mountain - Swannanoa Valley Endowment Fund, in partnership with The Community Foundation, has awarded 215 grants totaling $1,538,600.

Thanks to Our Donors (07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024)

  • Mr. Michael Arones
  • Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Barker
  • Mr. and Mrs. David Barstow
  • Dr. Sylvia M. Bassett
  • Ms. Meredith Begley
  • Mr. and Mrs. William Michael Begley
  • Mrs. Kannah L. Begley Walker
  • Jose L. Bello
  • Ms. Mary Anna B. Belz
  • Mr. William C. Biebusch
  • Black Mountain Family EyeCare
  • Mr. Jon D. Brooks
  • Mr. John F. Buckner
  • Dr. and Mrs. Gill Campbell
  • Dr. Tom R. Cannon
  • Mr. Austin C. Cooley
  • Mr. and Mrs. Chip T. Craig, Jr.
  • Ms. Lynn J. Deese
  • Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Dektor
  • Mrs. Lucy Dusthimer
  • Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. Farmer, Jr.
  • Mr. Charles E. Fitzgerald and Mr. Jack Hammack
  • Mrs. Margaret H. Fouse
  • Ms. Carol Groben
  • Ms. Cheryl Ann Harper
  • Ms. Rebecca P. Harris
  • Dr. Robert N. Headley
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bill Henderson
  • Ms. Elizabeth Hermelee and Dr. Norman Gottleib
  • Mr. C. Roger Hibbard
  • Mr. and Mrs. Maury Hurt
  • Mr. and Mrs. R. Anthony Lee
  • Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Linton
  • Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mayer
  • Mr. and Mrs. William McGuire
  • Lori Morris
  • Dr. Jean C. Norris and Dr. Bluford B. Hestir
  • Mr. Don Reid
  • Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. Roy
  • Mr. Joseph and Dr. Mary Standaert
  • Mr. and Mrs. Ed Turley
  • Ms. Betsy Warren
  • Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wilcox
  • Sally and David Withers

Contact Melissa Edgington

Get in touch with Melissa for more information about the Foundation’s Affiliate Program.

Email Melissa