GIVING BACK TO ASHEVILLE
Asheville, NC Non-Profits
Volunteering your time to support a cause you believe in is something you will never regret. Your life will be enriched, your community will be familiarized, and you will connect with people and ideas that will positively influence your outlook on life. You can grow personally as a result of helping your community, and better understand your role in it.
In our capacity as a locally based business, we feel it's our responsibility to reinvest into the communities in which we operate. Here are some of the non-profits we actively give both our time and financial support to that have not only bettered our lives, but our community. Be part of reinvesting into the community through our company - ask us how!
Verner Center for Early Learning is a nonprofit agency providing high quality, affordable early care and education to over 300 children – birth to five years old – throughout Buncombe County, North Carolina. Verner fosters wholistic learning environments where young children and families thrive. We work to foster active partnerships with families and the community to nurture the development of the whole child.
Verner currently serves approximately 250 families with children ages birth to five and expectant families, about 80% of whom are low-income, in our Home-Based program and at three centers across Buncombe County. Our centers include one on Riceville Road on Warren Wilson College (WWC) property that serves as a lab school, one at Montmorenci United Methodist Church in Candler, and one temporarily at Pisgah View Head Start in the Pisgah View Community. Verner is the only Early Head Start (EHS) provider in Buncombe County, partnering with 165 center-based or home-based low-wealth EHS children and families.
Want to learn more about this amazing nonproft? Give our office a call or go directly to them at www.vernerearlylearning.org. For every client we serve a donation is made in YOUR name to help this incredible place help another child right here in Buncombe County!
Manna FoodBank
Manna FoodBank is a private, not-for-profit service organization working to end food insecurity in the 16 counties of Western North Carolina including the Qualla Boundary. MANNA links the food industry to over 200 partner pantries and other human service organizations to get food to thousands of families’ tables. MANNA is an acronym and stands for Mountain Area Nutritional Needs Alliance. We are a member of Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization.