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
IBEW Local 238
Ingles Markets
Juicy Lucy’s Burger Bar & Grill
Killeen Old House, LLC
Prince Manufacturing
We are thankful for the generous support of our foundation, corporate, and government funders!
Buncombe County
Capital Bank
Charles W. Gaddy and Lucy Finch Gaddy Endowment Fund, a component fund of the North Carolina Community Foundation
City of Asheville
Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
Duke Energy Foundation
Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church
The Kresge Foundation
Mission Health
Morgan Family Foundation
Mountain Area Workforce Development Board
NC Community Development Initiative
NC Community Foundation
Rolander Family Foundation
Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation
US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration (YouthBuild)
United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County
Wallace Global Fund II
Wells Fargo
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
All Souls Counseling Center
Asheville City Schools
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
Buncombe Partnership for Children
Burton Street Community Peace Garden
Burton Street Neighborhood Association
Catalyst Kitchens
Children First
City of Asheville
Circle Forward
Community Action Opportunities
Community Foundation of WNC
Duke Energy
Everybody’s Environment
French Broad Food Coop
Goodwill Industries of WNC
Habitat for Humanity, Asheville Chapter
Hands and Feet of Asheville
Hillcrest Apartments Community Garden
Homeward Bound of WNC
Hood Huggers International
Housing Authority of the City of Asheville
Just Economics
Land-of-Sky Regional Council
LEAF Community Arts
Lenoir-Rhyne University
MAHEC
Manna Food Bank
Mission Hospital
Mountain Area Workforce Development Board
Mountain BizWorks
Mountain Housing Opportunities
Naber Consulting
OnTrack Financial Education and Counseling
Organic Growers School
Partners Unlimited
The POP Project
Recconect for Resilience
Residents’ Council of the Asheville Housing Authority
Self-Help Credit Union
Shiloh Community Garden
Southside Community Garden
Southside Rising
SPARC Foundation
The Lord’s Acre
United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County
University of North Carolina, Asheville
UpFront Management Sports Agency
Vaya Health
Warren Wilson College
Western North Carolina Green Building Council
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