Community & Strategic Partners
Our Employment Partners
These businesses and organizations from around the Western North Carolina region have come together to support GO’s mission in the most important way of all. By training and providing apprenticeships to our students, and directly hiring our graduates, they’ve demonstrated a strong commitment to social and economic justice in our community. Check them out!
Highland Metalworks
Hotel Indigo
Housing Authority of the City of Asheville
Ingles Markets
Killeen Old House, LLC
Prince Manufacturing
We are thankful for the generous support of our foundation, corporate, and government funders!
The Asheville Merchants Fund of the Community Foundation of WNC
Buncombe County
The Cannon Foundation
Charles W. Gaddy and Lucy Finch Gaddy Endowment Fund, a component fund of the North Carolina Community Foundation
The Charles and Betti Saunders Foundation Fund of the Austin Community Foundation
City of Asheville
Community Economic Development Program — U.S.Department of Health and Human Services
Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
Duke Energy Foundation
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church
The Kresge Foundation
The Larsen Fund
Mission Health
Mountain Area Workforce Development Board
NC Community Development Initiative
NC Community Foundation
New Belgium Brewing Company
Rotary Club of Asheville
TD Charitable Foundation
US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration (YouthBuild)
United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County
Wells Fargo
Wicked Weed Brewing
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
All Souls Counseling Center
Asheville City Schools Foundation
Asheville GreenWorks
Asheville Independent Restaurants (AIR)
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau
Bountiful Cities Project
Buncombe County
Buncombe County Re-Entry Council
Buncombe County Schools
Burton Street Community Peace Garden
Burton Street Neighborhood Association
Catalyst Kitchens
Children First
City of Asheville
Community Action Opportunities
Community Foundation of WNC
Duke Energy
Everybody’s Environment
French Broad Food Coop
Gardens United
Goodwill Industries of WNC
Habitat for Humanity, Asheville Chapter
Hands and Feet of Asheville
Hillcrest Apartments Community Garden
Hood Talk
Homeward Bound of WNC
Housing Authority of the City of Asheville
Just Economics
Land-of-Sky Regional Council
LEAF Community Arts
MAHEC
Manna Food Bank
The Mediation Center
Mission Hospital
Mountain Area Workforce Development Board
Mountain BizWorks
Mountain Housing Opportunities
Naber Consulting
NC Community Development Initiative
OnTrack Financial Education and Counseling
Organic Growers School
Partners Unlimited
Pisgah View Peace Garden
The POP Project
Residents’ Council of the Asheville Housing Authority
Self-Help Credit Union
Southside Community Garden
The Lord’s Acre
United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County
University of North Carolina, Asheville
UpFront Management Sports Agency
Warren Wilson College
Western North Carolina Green Building Council
Women’s Wellbeing Development Foundation
Word on the Street/La Voz de los Jovenes
Working Wheels
YMCA of Western North Carolina
YWCA of Asheville
YouthBuild U.S.A. Affiliated Network