Asheville & North Carolina Community Resource List
We've compiled this list of organizations fighting for equality and justice as a resource for community members who hope to help such groups with their time or money. This is hardly a definitive list, but we hope it's a start for people to get involved and -- more importantly -- stay involved with Asheville.
“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”
― James Baldwin
Asheville/Local
- Black AVL Demands - An intergenerational collective of Black leaders in Asheville
- Asheville Black Lives Matter Community on Facebook
- Building Bridges Asheville - Educational programming created to dismantle racism by fostering relationships that respect diversity, seek understanding and encourage action.
- Racial Justice Coalition - Endeavors for training, community policing, transparency, responsiveness and balanced law enforcement for racial justice.
- Racial Equity Collective - Provides a shared analysis of structural racism to move our community into informed action to disrupt racial inequity.
- Hood Huggers International - Offers sustainable strategies for building support pillars for resilient historically African American neighborhoods.
- Umoja Health Wellness and Justice Collective • Donate via GoFundMe - Nonprofit organization addresses trauma, healing and resilience through community
- CoThinkk - Brings together community leaders who care about the economic and social well-being of communities of color in Asheville and Western North Carolina.
- The MLK Association of Asheville & Buncombe County, Inc. - Dedicated to preserving and advancing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
- Equity Over Everything - Aims to advance equity by closing the gaps in social equity, entrepreneurship and homeownership within low resource communities across the south.
- The Ade Project - A community-based, learning organization that cooperates to create a world beyond oppression, and inequity.
- My Daddy Taught Me That - A program designed to support the development, uplift, and education of youth and young males.
- My Sistah Taught Me That - A young girl's developmental program designed to encourage, inspire, educate, and empower young girls.
- YTL (Youth Transformed for Life) - Educators, mentors, advocates, and neighbors who support disenfranchised communities as they strive to succeed in an inequitable system.
- YWCA of Asheville - dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, nurturing children and promoting health.
Food Justice/Direct Support
- Beloved Asheville
- We Give a Share - A grassroots initiative that unites local farms, chef activists and those communities who benefit most from fresh foods.
- Bountiful Cities - Partners with community groups to create urban agricultural spaces.
- Asheville Survival Program - Builds mutual aid networks with oppressed communities, and promotes solidarity and sharing.
Regional/National
- Poor People’s Campaign
- Southerners On New Ground - A home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South
- Equal Justice Initiative - Committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States.
- Color of Change
