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