The Mitchell County Development Foundation (MCDF) recently announced $178,000 in grants to twenty-six businesses across Mitchell County. These grants will be used for building, fixture and equipment repairs as businesses continue to recover from the effects of Hurricane Helene. This is the fourth and final round of grantmaking from the MCDF’s Small Business Resiliency Grant Program. This round of funding included grants to businesses affected by the storm as well as new or expanding businesses in the most impacted areas of Mitchell County.
The Foundation wishes to thank the Duke Energy Foundation, the State Employees Combined Campaign, Hilloween, the Samuel L. Phillips Foundation, HCA Healthcare/Blue Ridge Regional Hospital and generous individual donors for their recent support.
With this fourth and final round of grant awards, the Mitchell County Development Foundation closes out its Small Business Resiliency Grant Program. The Small Business Resiliency Grant Program awarded a total of $1,451,700 in grants to sixty businesses in Mitchell County affected by the devastation resulting from Hurricane Helene in September of 2024. Grants were used to repair buildings, equipment and fixtures providing much needed financial assistance to Mitchell County small businesses as they took on the huge task of clearing out hurricane debris and rebuilding their businesses. Despite concluding its Small Business Resiliency Grant program, the larger work of the MCDF will continue—as it has for more than 20 years.
“I want to thank our Grants Committee and the full Board of Directors for their outstanding work over the last 18 months. The Mitchell County Development Foundation team sought out grants and donations, taking every opportunity to discuss Mitchell County needs and the avenue to help through our local non-profit. Our success in distributing over $1.4 million in funding throughout Mitchell County is the result of this hard work.”
—Jeff Gouge
President, Mitchell County Development Foundation
About the Mitchell County Development Foundation: For more than two decades, the Mitchell County Development Foundation (MCDF) has supported the people, businesses, and community organizations of Mitchell County, North Carolina and will continue this important work. Our goal is to improve the quality of life by reducing poverty and improving the physical, environmental and business conditions of Mitchell County. The Mitchell County Development Foundation is a community-based organization that raises tax deductible funds to support Mitchell County. The MCDF improves the well-being of Mitchell County as a whole by helping to implement the long-range planning of the county and municipal governments by working to bring together the various public and private groups necessary to promote job creation, business promotion and economic development. The MCDF also acquires real or personal property for the purpose of business promotion and economic development.
www.mitchellcountydevelopmentfoundation.org