Transparency & Public Documents.

Carolina Cares · 4 pages

Complete Funding Package

A combined package for understanding Carolina Cares Essentials Kits and the support needed to carry out the program. It brings together the funding case, practical supply model, sponsorship opportunities, and program planning information.

Useful for: business sponsorship discussions, program grant review, and an introduction to the Essentials Kit model.

The launch brief within this package presents a $5,000 initial funding goal and an approximate 200-kit planning target. Its working budget includes supplies, packaging, distribution, tracking, and administration.

Carolina Cares · 2 pages

Stewardship & Program Overview

Organization facts, the receive–procure–assemble–distribute–document–report cycle, possible kit contents, and the twelve-month $30,000 program framework.

The approximately 1,000-kit figure is a planning target. The document explains a lean, volunteer-supported model and the records intended to support responsible stewardship.

Useful for: reviewing program capacity, use of funds, documentation, and ways to participate.

Poston Preserve · 1 page

2026 Phase One Funding Brief

A concise introduction to the $25,000 launch goal for the founding Poston pilot. It describes community development, public history, beautification, and conservation planning, together with intended Phase One results and giving levels.

Useful for: introducing the initiative to a potential donor, preservation partner, local business, or community contact.

Poston Preserve · 3 pages

Phase One Budget & Narrative

The proposed September 23, 2026 cash budget itemizes $25,000 across eight categories and explains cost assumptions, a proposed twelve-month sequence, and the intended evidence of progress.

Allocations are planning estimates for review. They are not vendor quotes, approved commitments, funds received, or a statement that the full fundraising target remains unfunded.

Useful for: detailed funding review, understanding project scope, and discussing the conditions needed before work proceeds.

Two funding stages for Carolina Cares

The complete funding package begins with a $5,000 launch framework for an initial distribution. The stewardship overview sets out the broader $30,000 twelve-month program. These are distinct planning scopes, rather than two descriptions of the same funded project.

Carolina Cares planning figures

The twelve-month framework includes $25,000 for kit supplies, $3,000 for distribution and other direct costs, and $2,000 for administrative and indirect support. The estimated $25 direct-supply cost per kit excludes those additional program costs.

Approximately 1,000 kits is a target subject to funding, pricing, sourcing, and capacity. The separate 1,000-kit entry shown for 2025 in Candid is also expressly described there as a target, not a verified distribution result.

The launch brief’s approximately $25 all-in allowance and the annual plan’s estimated $25 direct-supply figure use different cost bases. A gift supports the applicable program scope; a fixed number of completed kits is not guaranteed by these planning estimates.

Poston Preserve budget assumptions

The $25,000 proposed cash budget includes a $750 donation-processing allowance. If that allowance is fully used, $24,250 remains for the other listed costs. The allowance is a planning reserve, not a quoted payment-provider fee.

The proposed delivery period begins with an authorized start and is paced to available funds. Physical work depends on permissions and local input; conservation and incorporation-readiness activities are exploratory planning. The budget excludes private landholding costs, unrelated commercial publishing, and land acquisition.