Chapelboro Reports On Funding Loss for Our Organization

Hope Renovation recently received a letter from the U.S. Department of Labor delivering significant news: $300,000 in grant funding, part of the Trump administration's federal cuts, has been canceled. What's particularly concerning are the reasons cited in the termination letter, which specifically pointed to our organization's goals of increasing participation of underrepresented communities, addressing hiring discrimination, and the fact that women of color made up over half of our their graduates.

In the article our founder and CEO Nora El-Khouri Spencer speaks to how this grant funding helped us achieve great growth and the effect this loss has on Hope.

“For five years, we worked to land the Department of Labor’s Women in Apprenticeships and Non-Traditional Occupations (WANTO) grant,” Spencer said. “It was a large, impactful grant that was helping us grow our program. But now, like our fellow grantees, we are left wondering how to fill a gap that represents one-third of our program budget and that threatens our very existence.”

Read the full article here and learn what the funding termination means to the industry and how you can help support Hope in our fight against them: https://chapelboro.com/news/nonprofit-news/chapel-hill-carrboros-hope-renovations-the-latest-local-nonprofit-to-suffer-federal-funding-cuts