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Watauga Housing Council fulfills its mission through the following strategic objectives: ​ Explore new housing opportunities and solutions with stakeholders & evaluate desired outcomes Coordinate with community partners to identify and secure private, local, state, and federal funding and resources Seek, integrate, and disseminate continuous data from target communities within Watauga and act as an information hub Develop and maintain backbone support for long-term collective impact effort on housing Three committees were formed to conduct work: Community Outreach, Housing Solutions, and WHC Structure & Fiscal/Sustainability. Watauga Housing Council meets monthly, on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30pm-5pm. All are welcome.

"We Are Down Home (WDH) is a project to build a statewide organization of rural and small town communities that advocate for economic, gender, and racial justice. We will move North Carolina toward the values of dignity, safety, and inclusion through leadership development, strategic campaigning, multiracial movement building, and civic engagement that advances real reforms for rural communities. We are unique in our focus on building permanent, statewide organizing infrastructure in North Carolina’s rural places. Through our growing network of member-led, county- based chapters, we are engaged in year-round organizing. Our member-leaders, deeply rooted in their communities, are the heart and soul of We Are Down Home’s work. Our organizational mission includes a commitment to building multiracial and working-class member leadership, and our chapter culture inspires the deep and necessary commitment required to transform small towns and rural places. As we work to build We Are Down Home chapters across the state, we are mindful that the formation of a multiracial working class alliance is not inevitable, even given demographic trends toward greater diversity in North Carolina. By 2042, North Carolina will be a majority people of color state, but we can’t afford to wait through decades of policy-making that deepens the pain of black, brown, and white working people. Through our proactive organizing, WDH seeks to hasten a multi-racial movement of working people that spans the urban-rural divide and moves North Carolina toward racial, economic, and gender justice."

Well of Mercy is a ministry of hospitality and healing sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. It provides quiet sanctuary for adults seeking right relationship with self, others, God and creation. By offering spiritual companionship, emotional support, respectful acceptance and sacred space, it contributes to the rest and renewal of its guests.

The mission of the Western Arts Agencies of North Carolina (WNC Arts) is to strengthen the arts community in Western North Carolina through advocacy, peer support, shared resources, and collaborative programming.To accomplish this mission, the WNC Arts works diligently to advocate for the arts in WNC and provide services to member organizations. Programs will nurture arts administration professionals and support the work of local arts organizations. WNC Art’s mission and programs are accomplished through the efforts of a volunteer board consisting of Western North Carolina arts council executive directors.