Asheville Area Habitat For Humanity Administrative Offices

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity provides affordable homeownership, home repair, and disaster repairs across Buncombe and Madison Counties.

  • Low-income adults seeking affordable Habitat homeownership
  • Homeowners needing safety or accessibility repairs
  • Low-income homeowners with Hurricane Helene damage in Buncombe or Madison County

Mountain Child Advocacy Center

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Mountain Child Advocacy Center provides free evidence-based therapies, multidisciplinary case coordination, and prevention education for children and families in Buncombe County.

  • Children affected by physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or neglect
  • Families seeking no-cost trauma therapy
  • Cases needing coordinated law enforcement, medical, mental health, and social services

Immediate access to free, evidence-based therapies when abuse occurs

Buncombe County Social Work Services

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Buncombe County Social Work Services provides Aging Services Funding for in-home and community-based services for adults age 60 and above and unpaid caregivers.

  • Older adults age 60 and above seeking in-home services
  • Older adults seeking community-based services
  • Unpaid caregivers seeking support funding

Arms Around ASD

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Arms Around ASD offers executive function coaching and self-care therapies in Asheville at low cost or no cost, with no one turned away for inability to pay.

  • autistic people seeking executive function coaching
  • families and caregivers seeking autism-community support
  • autistic adults seeking creative activities or boutique work experience

Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina provides programs to prevent and end homelessness, including landlord partnerships that open doors for clients.

  • Homelessness prevention support
  • Programs intended to end homelessness
  • Clients needing housing and homeless resources

Our Voice

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Our Voice provides a 24-hour crisis line and up to sixteen free counseling sessions for survivors age 13 and older.

  • sexual violence survivors age 13 and older in Buncombe County
  • human trafficking survivors age 13 and older in Buncombe, McDowell, or Transylvania County
  • survivors seeking free short-term counseling

Emergency available · 24-hour crisis line

Rathbun House

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Rathbun House provides no-charge lodging for up to 14 days within five blocks of Mission Hospital for referred medical-care families and caregivers.

  • Families and caregivers traveling to Asheville for a patient's inpatient care
  • Families supporting therapeutic outpatient treatment or outpatient surgery
  • Patients' caregivers needing lodging near Mission Hospital, CarePartners Rehabilitation Hospital, or the VA Medical Center

YWCA of Asheville

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

YWCA of Asheville, established in 1907, provides childcare, health and wellness, racial justice, and women’s empowerment programs.

  • Families seeking early learning childcare
  • People seeking gender-inclusive fitness classes
  • Individuals seeking swim lessons or wellness programs

Carolinas Chapter CMAA

Community Services Non Profits

Arden, NC

Carolinas Chapter CMAA's supplied website presents The Cliffs, offering seven private Carolina communities and seven nationally acclaimed golf courses.

  • buyers seeking private mountain or lake communities in the Carolinas
  • buyers seeking golf-centered residential communities
  • buyers seeking homesites or luxury homes near Lake Keowee, Greenville, or Asheville

WNC Troop 26

Community Services Non Profits

Arden, NC

WNC Troop 26 serves Avery Creek and Arden through nearly 70 years of Scouts BSA programming, including a girls’ troop established in 2019.

  • Youth entering Scouts BSA between the listed ages and grades
  • Young women seeking a Scouts BSA troop
  • Families seeking outdoor skills, camping, and adventure activities

Mediation Center

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

The Mediation Center provides confidential community mediation plus supervised visitation and safe child exchange for families.

  • individuals, families, or community groups seeking voluntary conflict resolution
  • families needing supervised visitation
  • families needing safe child exchange

NC FOP Asheville - Harold C Enloe Lodge 1

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

NC FOP Asheville - Harold C Enloe Lodge 1 is North Carolina's first Fraternal Order of Police lodge, chartered in 1953 with approximately 250 members.

  • Active or retired law enforcement officers seeking membership
  • Full-time civilian law enforcement agency employees seeking membership
  • Law enforcement members seeking legal representation, networking, or legislative services

Mount Zion Community Development

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Mount Zion Community Development lists NAF, EMPOWER, and Campus of Learning through its MZCD, Inc. section.

  • community development inquiries
  • NAF program information
  • EMPOWER program information

The SPARC Foundation

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

The SPARC Foundation, now Achieve WNC, connects people and families in need to education, employment, and mentorship.

  • Individuals seeking connections to education
  • People seeking employment connections
  • Individuals and families seeking mentorship

Moose Lodge

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Loyal Order of Moose supports children, seniors and communities through Mooseheart, Moosehaven and local lodges across all 50 states.

  • Supporting children through Mooseheart programs
  • Supporting senior members through Moosehaven
  • Participating in local community service

Craft Center

Community Services Non Profits

Montreat, NC

Craft Center offers summer pottery classes covering wheel throwing and hand-building through glazing and finished pots.

  • summer stoneware pottery instruction
  • beginners seeking guided wheel-throwing or hand-building classes
  • adult craft classes with materials included

Black Mountain Blues

Community Services Non Profits

Black Mountain, NC

Black Mountain Blues is a 501(c)(3) organization producing a reserved-seating, three-day blues event in downtown Black Mountain.

  • attending a reserved-seating blues festival in Black Mountain
  • supporting blues preservation and education in Western North Carolina
  • blues artists seeking community-focused support

Masonic Lodge

Community Services Non Profits

Asheville, NC

Community Services Non Profits in nearby counties

FAQ

Which Buncombe County nonprofits offer free crisis support?

Our Voice operates a 24-hour crisis line and offers up to sixteen free 45–60 minute counseling sessions for eligible survivors age 13 and older. Language interpretation is available through the crisis line.

Can a nonprofit help with home repairs after Hurricane Helene?

Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity offers disaster home repairs for low-income homeowners in Buncombe or Madison County and participates in coordinated disaster-repair referrals.

Is free lodging available for families traveling to Asheville for medical care?

Rathbun House provides lodging at no charge for up to 14 days, but guests generally need a hospital referral and must live outside Buncombe County. Eligible care includes inpatient treatment, therapeutic outpatient care, and outpatient surgery.

Where can older adults in Buncombe County seek help paying for in-home services?

Buncombe County Social Work Services offers Aging Services Funding for adults age 60 and older, including in-home and community-based services, and may also support unpaid caregivers.

Are nonprofit services always free in Buncombe County?

No. Some programs are free or donation-based, such as Our Voice counseling, Rathbun House lodging, and Arms Around ASD services. Other programs have eligibility requirements, referrals, income limits, or repayment terms, such as Habitat's no-profit mortgages.