Donate
You can help us thrive: The Center for Native Health welcomes all donations big and small, one-time and recurring, in order to help us continue to do this work. If you’d like to contribute to our current mission and future work, please consider making your tax-deductible donation today. You can donate to our ᏙᎯ TOHI endowment fund, or directly to the Program Areas of your choice.
What’s TOHI? The Center for Native Health has partnered with the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina to create a long-term endowment fund to support our mission and secure our future. ᏙᎯ TOHI is a cultural perspective of good health that guides all facets of The Center's work. From the Kituwah (Cherokee) perspective, "...health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the world is to be neutral, balanced, with a similarly gently flowing pattern... All aspects—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—figure into the Cherokee concept of good health." (Lefler, 2009).
This is TOHI.
Volunteer
It all begins with you: Maybe you want to work with indigenous community members, maybe you want to contribute your time to local activism, maybe you want to support and collaborate with indigenous artisans, maybe you want to contribute to the land and conservation. Whatever it is, the way you choose to show up and volunteer can make all the difference.
Our Programs need volunteers! Check out our Program pages to learn more about our organization’s work in our communities and to find out which Programs might need your help. Follow our social media accounts to learn about upcoming events and volunteering opportunities.
Sign up today: Come solo or invite your neighbors and friends: work with our staff and community partners, native and indigenous activists, educators, and artisans from all over the country. Make a positive impact on the life, land, people, and communities around you.
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Our Biannual Newsletter serves to update volunteers, donors, and community members twice a year about what we’ve been doing, our work with young people in the community, and hear from our Board and Staff about upcoming projects. Sign up today to receive our Newsletter via email!