When Disaster Strikes, We Take Care of Us
Since Helene, Beacon is working across communities to help ensure our waterways and neighbors are all restored.
The storm brought us together in ways more real and tangible than ever before. Connected communities fare better in any weather. Let’s nourish that connection, and build a lasting network of impactful intention and mutual aid.
Restoring Our Hurricane Damaged Lands
In partnership with the South Toe Stewards, Blue Ridge Resource Conservation and Development, Yancey County officials, and others, Beacon is helping to coordinate the cleanup and restoration of hurricane damaged lands across our county and beyond.
Join us for our bi-weekly actions including cleanups and bank restoration. We are working with care and teaming up with local experts and professionals to ensure that this work is done thoroughly and with the utmost respect for our ecosystem.
We are not only cleaning up our waterways and neighbors’ lands - we are restoring them with erosion control measures and native plants. Together we can ensure that the forests of Western North Carolina retain their pristine ecological beauty and are taken care of for generations to come.
Announcing the Plan-Your-Own-Action volunteer program
Do you have 4-10 friends who want to get outside and help our community? Visiting groups, friends and families are welcome. We know of lots of properties in need of support and we just need the hands and hearts to help. We will bring supplies and handle the trash removal. Click the button below to sign up with our volunteer form.
Landowners who need assistance, fill out the form also linked on the Get Involved page and we will send someone to see how we can help!
We can help!
Know of any people or communities not getting the resources they need? What about resources available that could be better accessed, shared, or utilized? We are working to link offerings with needs to ensure that whatever help is needed is available to all.
We’ve done so much and there’s so much more to do. Help us keep the work going, donate now!
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