2026 Grants
2026 Grants
Camber Foundation is honored to have supported the following organizations with grants in 2026. This page will be updated as we continue to provide grants during the year.
*Indicates multi-year grants. The amounts for these grants do not represent the amount distributed in 2026.
| Grantee | Grant Amount | Grant Purpose | County(ies) Served |
| Access East | $30,000 | Increasing access to healthcare for uninsured individuals by providing insurance enrollment assistance and referral to primary care providers. | Pitt and 16 surrounding Eastern NC counties |
| Albemarle Hopeline, Inc.* | $150,000 | Providing specialized, trauma-informed, no-cost therapy services for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking across 6 under-resourced counties in rural Northeastern NC. | Camden | Chowan | Currituck | Gates | Pasquotank | Perquimans |
| Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education | $48,000 | Reducing the impact of mental wellness crises through educational programs and youth empowerment initiatives that teach resiliency skills. | Harnett | Johnston | Sampson |
| Array Community Development Corporation | $30,000 | Expanding support to entrepreneurs in economic tier 1 and tier 2 counties through credit readiness cohorts, technical assistance partnerships, and by deploying capital through their funding platforms. | Carteret and 31 surrounding Eastern NC counties |
| Association of Mexicans in North Carolina, Inc. (AMEXCAN) | $45,000 | Increasing postsecondary education attainment among Latino high school and early college students in Eastern NC through support of FAFSA completion, college access workshops and one-on-one sessions, campus exposure, family engagement, and a youth conference. | Beaufort | Carteret | Craven | Duplin | Halifax | Martin | Nash | Pitt | Sampson | Washington | Wilson |
| Baptists on Mission | $25,000 | Mobile Dental Clinics in Eastern North Carolina. | Brunswick | Carteret | Columbus | Craven | Dare | Edgecombe | Johnston | Jones | Lenoir | Martin | Onslow | Pender | Sampson | Wayne |
| Bertie County Hive House | $25,000 | Connecting Bertie residents with the resources they need, with special emphasis on food distribution. | Bertie |
| Bertie County Rural Health Association | $25,000 | Providing free transportation to health clinic patients who have transportation challenges such as not having an automobile or access to a ride. | Bertie | Chowan | Hertford | Martin | Northampton | Washington |
| Better Health of Cumberland County Inc. | $45,000 | Supporting access to healthcare and improving healthcare outcomes by providing prescriptions, dental extractions, vision exams and eyeglasses, gas vouchers to out of town medical appointments and medical supplies. | Cumberland |
| Book Harvest | $15,000 | Supporting literacy through Books for K for Bladen County schools. | Bladen |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Albemarle, Inc.* | $100,000 | Increasing youth access to Boys & Girls Clubs through expansion to a new club in Perquimans County. | Perquimans |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain* | $250,000 | Increasing youth access to Boys & Girls Clubs in the coastal plain with new, renovated and relocated facilities, programming and staff. | Beaufort | Carteret | Craven | Greene | Lenoir | Martin | Pitt |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tar River Region | $15,000 | Equipping youth ages 10–18 in tier 1 counties with workforce skills through structured programming, employer engagement, and credential pathways, creating a clear progression from career exposure to employment readiness. | Edgecombe | Nash |
| Cancer Services of Eastern North Carolina | $45,000 | Expanding access to mammography to rural residents of Eastern NC who face barriers to healthcare access such as lack of transportation or insurance, while also providing cancer-related healthcare education and awareness in the community. | Pitt and 15 surrounding Eastern NC counties |
| Casa Azul de Wilson | $50,000 | Increasing postsecondary education attainment in the Latinx community through bilingual college and career advising; financial aid, scholarship and college application assistance; and supporting working families by offering services outside of regular business hours. | Wilson and 15 surrounding Eastern NC counties |
| Community Care Clinic of Dare | $50,000 | Supporting a preventative oral health initiative for uninsured children, ages 12 and under, to improve oral health outcomes through access to fluoride treatments, dental sealants, and bilingual oral health education. | Currituck | Dare | Hyde | Tyrrell | Washington |
| Conetoe Family Life Center | $50,000 | Supporting operations for succession planning, sustainability, and capacity building. | Edgecombe |
| Dress for Success | $30,000 | Expanding workforce development and digital opportunity by equipping women with access to services that lead to sustained employment and economic mobility including career coaching, mock interviews, professional attire, job search assistance, and Google Career Certificates. | All Eastern NC counties |
| East Carolina University Foundation* | $647,000 | Increasing digital opportunity in Eastern NC with digital skills training and device and internet access through the Digital Link & Learn Program. | 18 Eastern North Carolina counties |
| Edgecombe County Public Schools Educational Foundation | $15,000 | Bridge Week 2026 for Edgecombe Early College High School and Edge Academy of Health Sciences. | Edgecombe |
| Eustress Inc. | $35,000 | Delivering community-rooted, culturally-relevant services that reduce stigma and build mental health literacy by embedding mental health conversations into family systems, sports teams, peer networks, and community gatherings. | Bertie |
| Feast Down East* | $150,000 | Providing economic opportunities for local farmers through increased Food hub operations, while increasing food access in underserved communities through Mobile Market programs. | Pender and 16 Eastern NC counties |
| Genesis Block Foundation, Inc. | $15,000 | Eastern North Carolina Women’s Business Collective. | Eastern North Carolina counties |
| Green Rural Redevelopment Organization GRRO | $15,000 | Expanding access to healthcare with Community Health Workers helping residents navigate medical and mental health care resources, improving long-term health outcomes. | Bertie | Edgecombe | Halifax | Martin | Nash | Northampton | Pitt | Wilson |
| Hill Family Farm Education Center Inc. | $25,000 | Serving as a community resource, with an emphasis on food distribution. | Edgecombe | Halifax | Nash |
| Hispanic Federation, Inc. | $45,000 | Reducing health disparities through education including digital health literacy, preventive care, mental health, wellness, and insurance access, and through direct services including a bilingual hotline, health fairs, and referrals, ensuring access to care. | Bladen | Duplin | Edgecombe | Greene | Harnett | Johnston | Jones | Lenoir | Nash | Pender |
| Kids First, Inc. Child Advocacy Center* | $150,000 | Providing comprehensive services (forensic interviews, evidence-based therapy, medical evaluations, victim advocacy, and multi-disciplinary team review) to survivors of child abuse. | Camden | Chowan | Currituck | Dare | Gates | Pasquotank | Perquimans |
| Kinston Community Health Center | $45,000 | Expanding mobile clinic operations to weekly full-service primary care, chronic disease management, preventive screenings, physical exams, prescription management, and lab work for communities where transportation is identified as a barrier to accessing care. | Lenoir | Wayne |
| Kinston Community Health Center | $5,000 | Supporting summer internships. | Craven | Duplin | Greene | Jones | Lenoir | Onslow | Pitt | Wayne |
| Kinston Teens, Inc. | $50,000 | Equipping youth with digital skills, workforce credentials, and postsecondary pathways through the Digital Literacy Corps and East Kinston Neighborhood Hub, combining hands-on training, mentorship, and stipends to expand economic mobility. | Lenoir |
| Kramden Institute | $55,000 | Increasing digital opportunity through the Train-the-Trainer Program in Wayne and Wilson counties, and a new partnership with Beaufort County Community College. | Beaufort | Hyde | Tyrrell | Washington | Wayne | Wilson |
| Lumbee Regional Development Association | $40,000 | Launching a paid internship program where students will gain hands-on experience in high-growth automation and advanced manufacturing careers. | Hoke | Robeson | Scotland |
| Marius Maximus Foundation for Mental Health Inc | $30,000 | Strengthening mental health and substance use recovery for youth and caregivers via peer support, emotional-regulation groups, and referrals, resulting in fewer crises, reduced return to use, stronger family stability, and better school and work supports. | Cumberland | Sampson |
| Men and Women United for Youth & Families* | $150,000 | Providing youth workforce development opportunities and mental health resources through a new apprenticeship program, increased internship sites and expansion of their youth mental health summit. | Bladen | Brunswick | Columbus | New Hanover |
| Miller’s Crew | $50,000 | Training and employing young adults with developmental disabilities, creating a safe work environment that allows them to develop self worth, self sufficiency, and a life of purpose. | Cumberland | Harnett | Hoke | Robeson | Scotland |
| myFutureNC* | $400,000 | Increasing postsecondary education attainment aligned with local workforce needs in Eastern North Carolina through AttainmentNC. | Eastern North Carolina counties |
| NC Association of Free & Charitable Clinics* | $400,000 | Expanding healthcare access to free and charitable clinics in un- and under-served areas in Eastern NC. | 27 Eastern NC counties |
| NC Economic Development Association Foundation | $5,000 | Supporting scholarships for Eastern NC students to attend the NC Economic Development Academy. | Eastern NC counties |
| NC FIELD* | $150,000 | Expanding uninterrupted access to health and mental health services including addiction recovery, mental health training, peer support, and navigation services for health insurance and other benefits. | Lenoir and 13 surrounding Eastern NC counties |
| NC Inclusive Disaster Recovery Network | $20,000 | Supporting disaster preparedness in Eastern North Carolina. | Eastern NC counties |
| North Carolina Community Schools Coalition* | $1,000,000 | Increasing student academic success and mental and physical health by supporting School Advisory Boards in Eastern NC Community Schools. | Bertie | Bladen | Columbus | Cumberland | Harnett | Hertford | Hoke | Hyde | Northampton | Pasquotank | Robeson | Sampson | Scotland | Tyrrell | Washington |
| North Carolina Farmworkers’ Project, Inc. | $45,000 | Addressing barriers to chronic disease management, mental health access, and digital opportunity through coordinated case management for diabetes, and by ensuring patients have reliable connectivity, devices and technical support for telehealth visits. | Cumberland | Duplin | Harnett | Johnston | Sampson | Wayne |
| Ocracoke Health Center, Inc. | $50,000 | Providing comprehensive healthcare where, otherwise, there would be none due to profound shortages, focusing on rural, low-income, and/or chronically ill residents regardless of ability to pay. | Dare | Hyde |
| Onslow County Partnership for Children DBA One Place | $25,000 | Providing no cost therapeutic services to children and youth, and their supportive caregivers, experiencing trauma. | Jones | Onslow |
| Our State, Our Future | UNC Chapel Hill | $55,000 | Supporting local strategies to increase education and workforce opportunities for youth in Eastern NC. | Hoke | Hyde | Scotland | Tyrrell | Washington |
| Prevent Blindness North Carolina | $35,000 | Increasing access to care for residents of 18 Eastern NC counties via high-quality vision screenings in preschools as well as telehealth retinal imaging for low-income and diabetic adults and education for parents and patients. | Wilson and 17 surrounding Eastern NC counties |
| Ripe for Revival* | $150,000 | Expanding operations to a new hub location in Plymouth, NC increasing mobile food markets to previously unserved areas, and adding health screening services. | Washington and 14 surrounding Eastern NC counties |
| Ripple Effects Group | $50,000 | Enhancing student and family well-being by providing trauma therapy, family counseling, and in-house mental health services, addressing gaps in support and complementing alternative learning programs. | Edgecombe | Nash |
| Ripple Effects Group | $2,500 | Supporting a summer internship. | Edgecombe | Halifax | Nash | Wilson |
| Robeson County Partnership for Children | $35,000 | Sustaining Robeson Overcoming Adversity through Resilience’s (ROAR’s) efforts to promote mental wellness and resilience through programs teaching skills to manage stress and understand the impact of adversity and trauma. | Robeson |
| Safe Haven of Pender | $35,000 | Providing case management and support services that aim to achieve trauma stabilization, emotional regulation support, crisis de-escalation, and restoration of agency and control for individuals and children impacted by domestic violence. | Duplin | Pender |
| StepUp Wilmington | $35,000 | Assisting over 600 people with job-readiness and employment training through programs where participants earn continuing education credits and professional development to access further specialized skills training and certifications. | New Hanover |
| Strategic Twin Counties Education Partnership* | $150,000 | Increasing the scale and impact of work-based learning and the local workforce pipeline through partnerships with educational entities, employers and community stakeholders. | Edgecombe | Nash |
| The Partnership for Children of Wayne County, Inc. | $45,000 | Strengthening the early childhood workforce by providing participants in The Early Educator Workforce Academy with essential training, foundational coursework, and hands-on experience needed to begin a successful career. | Johnston | Wayne |
| Train the East Consortium | $120,000 | Increasing postsecondary education success and workforce development in Eastern NC at James Sprunt, Lenoir, Sampson and Wayne Community Colleges. | Duplin | Greene | Jones | Lenoir | Sampson | Wayne |
| Tri-County Industries Inc. | $15,000 | Expanding employment services that increase access to meaningful work, skill development, and long-term support for individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment. | Edgecombe | Halifax | Nash | Northampton |
| Tyrrell County Community Development Corporation | $35,000 | Fostering entrepreneurship and leadership training by delivering structured small-business development services including planning support, financial literacy education, credit readiness counseling, and one-on-one technical assistance. | Beaufort | Hyde | Martin | Pitt | Tyrrell | Washington |
| Wilson Education Partnership | $42,000 | Providing students with exposure to health career opportunities and skills development in the areas of interviewing, time management, conflict resolution, and communication, along with continuing education for teachers. | Wilson |
| Wilson Youth United, Inc. | $30,000 | Addressing mental health needs by expanding social-emotional learning (SEL) outreach services, and delivering the interventions both within The SPOT Youth Center and directly in the most distressed neighborhoods. | Wilson |
