The Golden LEAF Foundation is seeking applications for its Open Grants Program.
Donor Name: Golden LEAF Foundation
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/25/2026
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Golden LEAF’s mission is to increase economic opportunity in North Carolina’s rural, tobacco-dependent, and economically distressed communities through leadership in grantmaking, collaboration, innovation, and stewardship as an independent and perpetual foundation.
The Golden LEAF Foundation is committed to using the funds entrusted to it for projects that show the most potential for strengthening North Carolina’s economy, especially in tobacco-dependent, economically distressed, and/or rural communities.
Priority Funding Areas
This program is for economic development projects aligned with the Golden LEAF priority areas. More details regarding Golden LEAF’s priority areas and priority outcomes are available at the links below.
- Job Creation and Economic Investment
- Workforce Preparedness
- Agriculture
- Community Competitiveness and Capacity.
Funding Information
Awards in the Open Grants Program are $500,000 or less.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are governmental entities and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
- Competitive applications for projects include requests for funds to:
- Develop and implement a new workforce training program to meet demand from local employers
- Implement a career pathway at a high school for a high demand field
- Extend water, sewer, or road infrastructure to a site to enable industrial development that will create full-time jobs
- Support the development of new crops, expand markets for agriculture products, or provide training for farmers.
- Construction of infrastructure for public use needed for development of workforce housing (developer must be a 501(c)(3) or local government entity).
For more information, visit Golden LEAF Foundation.
