NC Giving News: In Brief

Guilford Education Alliance partnered with DonorsChoose.org, received $58,000 in contributions from individuals, businesses, civic organizations to 152 distinct projects in Guilford County Schools.

Leesville Road High School students donated over $3,000 to Wake County Youth Employed & Succeeding program at Community Partnerships Inc.; program provides academic services, vocational guidance, job-readiness training to needy Wake County youth.

Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University received $5M from anonymous donor to create undergraduate curriculum encouraging students to think critically about problems lacking obvious solutions.

Meredith College, Raleigh, received $180,000 grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Student Science Enrichment Program for outreach efforts.

Nine Wake County public school teachers received total of almost $30,000 for classroom needs from Wake Education Partnership.

Nick Daves, director, Winston-Salem State University's Center of Excellence in Financial Services, honored with namesake scholarship fund established by Lynn Murphy, president & CEO, Gateway Management Services.

UNC-Greensboro received $1,080,663 from class of 1958, first class gift in school's history to exceed one million dollars.

N.C. Bar Association, Construction Law Section gave North Carolina Zoo Society $10,000 to help build Valerie H. Schindler Wildlife Learning Center.

North Carolina Zoo Society received $80,314 Economic Innovation Grant from N.C. Rural Economic Development Center for development of Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park, Scotland Neck.

N.C. Rural Economic Development Center, Raleigh, awarded total of $8.7M in grants to boost struggling local economies, address water and sewer needs.

N.C. Heroes Fund, Charlotte, announced grant and scholarship recipients: SSG Derek Drew, SGT Noble Salerno, Jaasmin Hunte, SGT Tyson Villarreal.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Charlotte Alumnae Chapter, awarded grants to nonprofits totaling $24,350, scholarships totaling $51,000.

N.C.Zoo Society, Randolph Friends of the Zoo gave $10,800 to 10 N.C. Zoo employees for innovative ideas for supporting zoo's conservation, education, recreation missions.

Mint Museum, Charlotte, received donation of library materials from Institute of Museum and Library Services.

CARQUEST providing 24 scholarships for outreach students from YMCA of the Triangle to attend two-day technology camp offered by CARQUEST.

Telecris, biotech company, held Telecris Cares philanthropic team-building effort, donating more than $50,000 in labor, supplies to Wake, Johnston County nonprofits.

Winston-Salem State University received $291,000 from UNC General Administration for collaboration with Mount Airy Schools and Winston-Salem area school to help elementary teachers improve literacy-teaching skills for low-performing students.

Allen Tate Company gave Winston-Salem, Forsyth County Schools $4,224.05, part of more than $140,000 raised at annual FUNDay.

UNC-Chapel Hill received training grant from Gilead Foundation to provide doctors from Malawi with training in internal medicine.

Davidson College received $1.5M from Howard Hughes Medical Institute to create initiatives attracting more students to science fields.

David Kittner, attorney, Rebecca Kardon Foundation gave $1M for department of ophthalmology at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Medcine.

Cumberland Community Foundation, Fayetteville, received $200,000 gift from First Home Health and Hospice to create Elizabeth A. Hudspeth Endowment Fund in honor of agency's founder.

International House, Charlotte, received $25,000 grant from Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation for Ginter Immigration Law Clinic.

American Express Service Center, Greensboro, hosted 11 Earth-friendly agencies, businesses in honor of Earth Day.

One hundred Duke University Fuqua School of Business students donated total of $10,000 to Bhagwan Mahavir Viklang Sahayata Samiti, India, provider of artificial limbs.

N.C. Zoo, Asheboro, received $201,000 gift from various unnamed donors to build a feeding station for visitors to feed giraffes.

Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, in partnership with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, received $150,000 from N.C. Department of Public Instruction to open second Performance Learning Center in Charlotte. 

 

Action for Children North Carolina received $10,000 from EMC Corp., $2,500 from Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation; donations to support North Carolina School Readiness Report.

Crosland, Raleigh real-estate company, donated $20,000 to W.I. Patterson Neighborhood Center for youth programs.

Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, received $2.5 million from estate of Donald and Helen Schort of Hickory to endow school of computing science and mathematics in donors' name.

Consumer Credit Counseling Service received $237,132 from N.C. Housing Finance Agency to counsel homeowners in danger of losing homes in 14 counties.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society awarded $825,000 to team of researchers at UNC Chapel Hill for project exploring steps leading to central nervous system injury in MS, strategies to halt disease.

Allen Tate Realtors from Burlington, Stoney Creek offices donated total of $12,350 to United Way of Alamance County.

N.C. GlaxoSmithKline Foundation gave $25,000 to Futures for Kids to provide Durham County students with access to career information, mentors.

Time Warner Cable gave $3,500 to Durham's Partnership for Children for State of Durham's Children event, early childhood initiatives.

88.5 WFDD named production studio 2 after Julian Burroughs, former station manager, professor in Speech Communication, Wake Forest University.

88.5 WFDD, Piedmont Triad public radio station, received $10,000 Joseph M. Bryan Foundation to fund day-to-day operations in Greensboro office, conversion to digital broadcasting.

Triad Health Project, Greensboro HIV/AIDS outreach group, received $3,529 from Sea Squirts Scuba Club.

Signal marketing and technology firm donated more than $20,000 in pro-bono design, production services to SAFEchild, Raleigh.

Time Warner Cable, Morrisville, awarded nearly $1.2M in cash, in-kind services to 130 nonprofits in Triangle area for Caring for the Community program.

BB&T gave $20,000 to Action for Children North Carolina, Raleigh for publication of "Children's Index" in 2008; also received donations from Storr Office Environments, Lord Corporation, Time Warner Cable.

Truliant Federal Credit Union to award $2,500 scholarship to Hispanic student at 9^th annual Spanish Nite Scholarship Awards Presentation, Winston-Salem.

Dorothy Gier donated her Willowhaven home, including contents, to Durham Library Foundation; includes collection of African artwork to be displayed at North Regional Library.

First Charter Corporation donated $25,000 for new YMCA facility in East Lincoln, to be named "Sally's Y" in memory of Sally Clark.

Time Warner Cable to award nearly $1.2M in cash, in-kind services to nonprofits in company's Triangle district.

SECU Foundation, Dare County Schools held groundbreaking for affordable teacher-housing project in Kill Devil Hills to helps local school systems with teacher recruitment, retention.

NewBridge Bank, Lexington, donating office furniture to several nonprofits in North Carolina.

N.C. Partnership for Children, N.C. Department of Public Instruction awarded eight $7,500 grants through N.C. Ready Schools Initiative to Ready Schools projects statewide; money will go to Smart Start, school system partnerships in Ashe, Carteret, Catawba, Davidson, Guilford, Hertford, New Hanover, Yancey counties.

Warren and Martha Halle donated more than $500,000 to town of Apex for Halle Cultural Arts Center.

Susan G. Komen awarded total of $545,808 to 15 recipients of Screening, Treatment Support, Education Program grants for 2008-2009.

Triangle Family Services received $31,320 from NeighborWorks America to provide counseling for families facing foreclosure; grant is part of $130M in federal funds awarded through NeighborWork's National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling program.

Novo Nordisk Parmaceutical Industries, Clayton, donated $100,000 to Johnston Memorial Hospital Foundation for future hospice center.

R3 Center at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, Kannapolis, received $40,000 from N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission to provide career aid to local tobacco workers, families, local businesses.

Winston-Salem Foundation awarded $18,000 to Magnolia Baroque Festival at N.C. School of the Arts, Winston-Salem.

Rimage, DatCard Systems announce MammoSmart Empowerment Award recipients: Canal Radiology Associates, New York, Vero Radiology Associates, Vero Beach, Fla.; both receive free MammoSmart comprehensive breast health solution for patient education.

Phipps Community Development Corporation received two-year $100,000 grant from New York Community Trust's Reader's Digest Scholarship and Leadership Fund to develop Bridge-to-College program, providing coaching, counseling for at-risk students.

NHP Foundation received $1M from Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation for gap financing to rehabilitate two affordable housing complexes.

Duke Energy Foundation gave $40,000 to N.C. Partnership for Children for Smart Start early childhood education programs serving five North Carolina counties.

Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at N.C. School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, received $18,000 from Winston-Salem Foundation to support third season of Magnolia Baroque Festival; funds come from Charles Babcock, Jr. Field of Interest Fund.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Greensboro, raised nearly $1M at gala for diabetes research.

Interact, Raleigh, launched public phase of new capital campaign; received $25,000 anonymous gift, $5,000 from Hueston Foundation.

N.C. Outdoor Advertising Association, Raleigh, donated 26 billboards to N.C. Bar Association for Public Service Day, Apr. 4.

UNC Chapel Hill received $1.1 million from William and Sara McCoy for visiting artists, in honor of retiring Chancellor Moeser.

John S. Clark Co., Mount Airy, gave total of $25,000 to students in five community colleges.

Nicholas Marriam, 14, Clayton, received $10,000 from Ronald McDonald House Charities of North Carolina for founding of Nickelby project.

Werner family gave $2.2M to fund full-tuition scholarships at Guilford College, Greensboro.

Fred Eshelman, founder and CEO, PPD Inc., gave $1M to UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Pharmacy's Educational Renaissance effort.

Durham Library Foundation received $4,000 from Target to boost literacy skills for young kids.

YWCA of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County received $150,000 from N.C. Department of Public Instruction for program at Carver High School.