INVESTORS
Our Investors
Our programming would not be possible without the support of funding partners and key stakeholders across North Carolina and beyond; we are truly grateful for their investment in our efforts. The partners below are critical to our work to provide leadership training programs, expand engagement opportunities, empower small businesses, and advocate for policy changes that improve rural communities. The list below represents donors who invested in our efforts during our 2021 fiscal year (July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021).
$1,000,000+






$500,000+

$250,000+



$100,000+

$50,000+



$25,000+
- American Heart Association
- American Red Cross
- SECU Foundation
- Smithfield Foods
$10,000+
- Duke Energy
- First National Bank
- Jordan Lumber & Supply, Inc.
- Martin Marietta
- Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
- NC Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
- NC Electric Cooperatives
$5,000+
- Blueprint NC
- CloudWyze
- Google Fiber
- NC Farm Bureau
- NC Humanities Council
- Radius Capital Partners
- South State Bank
- The Wooten Company
- Vidant Health
$2,500+
- Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative (ATMC)
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC
- Carolina Complete Health
- Dan Gerlach LLC
- Miller School of Entrepreneurship at ECU
- NC Healthcare Association
- NC State Extension
- NC State Industry Expansion Solutions
- North Carolina’s Southeast
- PNC Bank
- SkyLine/SkyBest
- Western Women’s Business Center
$1,000+
- Alan Rice
- Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
- Carolina Farm Credit
- Chris Parrish
- Durwood Stephenson
- ElectriCities of NC
- Mark Molitor
- Mighty River
- Miles Stocker
- NC Community Colleges Foundation
- Nelle Hotchkiss
- Patrick Woodie
- Phil Marion
- PhRMA and Randolph Cloud & Associates
- Prospera USA
- Randolph Communications
- Samuel Hunter
- Self-Help Credit Union
- Star Communications
- The Industrial Commons
- Thomas Entrepreneurship Hub @ UNC
- United Healthcare
- William McNeil
$500+
- Debbie Hamrick
- Eastern Carolina Broadband
- First Horizon Foundation
- John Coggin
- Joseph Stanley
- Mt. Olive Pickle
- Principled Technologies
- Sara Chester
$250+
- Andy Anderson
- Benjamin Knight
- Brian Crutchfield
- Dennis Tracz
- Five Points Capital
- Jennifer Tolle Whiteside
- Jenny Grant
- José Alvarez
- Juvencio Rocha-Peralta
- Lenora Jarvis-Mackey
- Lige Daughtridge
- Lynne Garrison
- Robert Logan
- Sarah Thompson
To learn more about investing in the future of rural North Carolina, please contact Jenal Austin, Director of Strategic Partnerships, [email protected].
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