List of 71 grants by Golden LEAF Foundation

A list of 71 grants totaling more than $20 million awarded this year by the Golden LEAF Foundation:

Appalachian State University Energy Center, landfill gas economic development, $125,000.

Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, expanding market opportunities western N.C. farmers, $150,000.

Asheville Art Museum, $150,000.

Beaufort County Community College, commercial truck driver training, $172,705.

Bertie County Schools, Project Bright Futures, $300,000.

Blue Ridge Hospital, expansion of Spruce Community Hospital, $350,000.

Carteret Community College, training for marine trades, $24,000.

Central Carolina Community College, Central Carolina Dental Center, $223,006.

Clay County Communities Revitalization Assoc., mountain biking and hiking trails, $120,000.

N.C. Center for Advancement of Teaching, preparing the next generation, $150,000.

Dunbar Community Development Center, $6,000.

East Coast Drag Racing Hall of Fame Museum, $150,000.

Elizabeth City State University, increasing scientific literacy in the work force, $350,000.

Elizabeth City State University, training aviation work force in northeastern N.C., $850,000.

Embassy Square Project, $100,000.

Rutherford and Polk County, high speed communication education network, $400,000.

Food Bank of North Carolina, planning initiative, $65,000.

Forest Education And Conservation Foundation, training loggers in new water quality standards, $15,000.

Friends of the W. Kerr Scott Lake, Forest Edge Community Amphitheater enhancements, $100,000.

Goler Community Development Corp., contractor resource center, $75,000.

Goshen Medical Center, dentistry project in Duplin County, $200,000.

Greene County Schools, Project iTech, $200,000.

Handmade In America Community Development Corp., craft and farm heritage trails, $68,480.

Haywood County, market development project, $60,000.

Indian Health Care Inc., clinic, $105,000.

James Sprunt Community College, muscadine grape education, $25,000.

Johnston Community College, health care training, $100,000.

Johnston County Visitors Bureau, tourism marketing, $85,000.

Marine Corps Museum of the Carolinas, $150,000.

Mitchell County Development Foundation, Christmas trees, $54,500.

Montgomery Economic Development Corp., tourism development, $35,000.

Nash Community College , NIMS certification center, $100,000.

N.C. A & T State University, advanced composites training center, $300,000.

N.C. Agricultural Foundation, develop organic grain industry, $150,000.

N.C. Agricultural Foundation, improve peanut marketing, $35,430.

N.C. Agricultural Foundation, management of Pierce's disease in grapes, $71,145.

N.C. Central University, funding for BRITE facility, $2.3 million.

N.C. Community College System, scholarships, $500,000.

N.C. Community College System, campaign for machining, construction and boat building, $250,000.

N.C. Department of Agriculture, state agricultural marketing, $200,000.

N.C. Department of Agriculture, dairy stabilization and growth study, $75,000.

N.C. Folklore Institute, develop showcase for mountain traditions, $40,000.

N.C. Forestry Foundation, develop torrefaction for North Carolina woody biomass, $175,000.

N.C. Forestry Foundation, birding trail, $100,000.

N.C. Foundation for Soil and Water Conservation Districts, building small minority owned and operated beef cattle farms in central and western counties, $52,500.

Independent colleges and university scholarships, $1.3 million.

N.C. Indian Economic Development Initiative, create and expand Indian construction firms, $75,000.

N.C. Medical Society Foundation, community practitioner program, $250,000.

N.C. State University, commercialization of flowering dogwood, $52,648.

N.C. State, develop lettuce industry, $150,000.

N.C. State, energy crops, $250,000.

N.C. State, raspberry and blackberry production in western North Carolina, $30,000.

N.C. State University, biomanufacturing training center, $2.57 million.

N.C. Tobacco Foundation, develop tobacco with resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus, $43,350.

Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments, Yadkin County Medicare specialist, $10,000.

Perquimans County Nature Tourism Development Project, $100,000.

Piedmont Triad Research Park, development project, $1 million.

Pitt Community College, mobile welding lab, $250,000.

Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, East Carolina Heart Institute, $500,000.

Robeson Community College, heavy equipment operator program, $227,189.

Rural Advancement Foundation International, tobacco communities reinvestment fund, $200,000.

Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help, black farmers economic enhancement project, $27,000.

Salem Academy and College, restore Single Sisters House, $150,000.

St. Joseph's Historic Foundation at Hayti Heritage Center, exhibition and cultural tourism trail, $300,000.

Tar River Land Conservancy, paddle the Tar, $35,000.

Teach For America North Carolina, sponsor-a-teacher eastern N.C., $175,000.

Turnage Theater revitalization, $50,000.

University of North Carolina, FastTrack to the Classroom, $100,000.

University of North Carolina, scholarships, $1.7 million.

Wilkes Community College, advanced materials center, $1.2 million.

Yadkin Valley Craft Guild, crafts apprenticeship and mentoring, $47,000.00