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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Browse Affiliates 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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Making an impact

Meet Ken and Layne Racht

Every community needs visionaries who imagine a better tomorrow. Isabel Nichols and her dream to create a fund that would forever meet the changing needs of Transylvania County caught our attention. By making a legacy commitment to the Transylvania Endowment, we are honored to stand with her in a continuing promise of philanthropy for our beloved community.

Ken and Layne Racht posing on a balcony with mountains in the background
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How to Donate

Donate online or send a check made out to "CFWNC" with "Transylvania Endowment" 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: Transylvania Endowment

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About

Muddy Sneakers was awarded $7,000 to provide programming for Brevard Elementary, Brevard Academy, and TC Henderson in the spring semester. 5th-grade students participated in a Muddy Sneakers stream ecology field trip at the Laurel Community Center pavilion. The instructor, Miranda Norlin, outlined a stream with rope, used foam pads to serve as rocks, laid out laminated cards with stream critters and instructed kids about how to move and handle the critters gently.

Photo by Mary Kelly.

Since 1998, the Transylvania Endowment, in partnership with The Community Foundation, has awarded 175 grants totaling $1,336,045.

Thanks to Our Donors (7/1/2023 - 06/30/2024)

  • Ms. Karla S. Atkinson
  • Wanda Barrett
  • Mrs. John W. Bicknell
  • Mr. Don Bieger and Ms. Dora Miller
  • Mr. and Mrs. Tom Blackstock
  • Mr. and Mrs. Charles Butz
  • Mr. Jeff Reed Carter
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bill Deyo
  • Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dickinson
  • Mr. and Mrs. John D. Goins
  • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton
  • Mr. and Mrs. John F. Holbrook
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jackson
  • Mrs. Carlene S. Jerome
  • Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Jerome
  • Mr. Donald E. Jordan
  • Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kibler
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Kirkman
  • Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Kline
  • Mrs. Katherine S. Lafrance
  • Mrs. Beth Lastinger
  • Mr. Scott A. Latell
  • Mr. John Lauer
  • Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Lemel
  • Mr. and Mrs. James Monteleone
  • Mr. Michael K. Pratt
  • Mr. and Mrs. Doug Probst
  • Mrs. Susie Rush
  • Mrs. Nancee L. Salyer
  • Trust of Joan A. Cook
  • Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stewart
  • Mr. and Mrs. John Wallis
  • Dr. Judith C. Welch
  • Ms. Virginia Williams

Contact Melissa Edgington

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

Email Melissa