In Cherokee country, three small grants are growing food, giving rides and keeping a language singing

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Community Foundation has awarded $6,630 in grants to three local groups in western North Carolina — none of them large, each of them aimed exactly where neighbours said help was needed. Courage to Grow Food Forest receives $2,000 for its Gadugi veganic food forest and farming project. Rolling Start NC receives $3,630 to provide vehicles for people who need them. And the Snowbird Cherokees Tradition Corporation receives $1,000 for Sounds of Our Ancestors, which teaches the Cherokee language through music. The foundation, led by local volunteers since 1991, makes the grants each year from its endowment, so the giving renews itself long after any single gift.

SDG 10 · Reduced inequalities — Mechanism: funding & finance