The Golden LEAF Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, was created in 1999 to receive one-half of the funds coming to North Carolina from the master settlement agreement with cigarette manufacturers. In turn, the Foundation is helping North Carolinians make the transition from a tobacco-dependent economy through grants and investments that will positively affect the long-term economic advancement of the state. It gives priority in its grantmaking to tobacco-dependent and economically distressed counties.

The Golden LEAF grant of $250,000 to the NCMS Foundation supports the Community Practitioner Program’s efforts to expand access to health care and create employment and economic development opportunities in rural, economically distressed and tobacco-dependent communities.

For more information on the work of the Golden LEAF Foundation, click here.