North Carolina Charity Backtracks, Opens Grant Program to White People

The program, Advancing Healthy Food Equity, originally excluded organizations run by white people or serving white communities

The webpage for Advancing Healthy Food Equity, a grant program run by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, in 2023. Screenshot/The Epoch Times

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation has changed its policy of excluding white-run organizations from applying for a new grant program after a medical watchdog organization brought media attention to what it called divisiveness “at a new level.”

Laura Morgan, program manager for Do No Harm—an organization that investigates and spotlights discriminatory practices in medical institutions—told The Epoch Times that the foundation “got caught red-handed when they tried to inject ugly racial politics into their grant-making process.”