Edgecombe Charitable Foundation awards more than $40,000 in local grants

The board of advisors of the Edgecombe Charitable Foundation recently announced $40,310 in local grant awards from its community grantmaking fund and the Mary Ferebee Howard Endowment Fund.

This year the board granted:

$1,250 to the Association for Learning Disabled and Handicapped for tutoring in Edgecombe County for exceptional students
$2,000 to the Buck Leonard Association for Sports & Human Enrichment, Inc. for the New Freedom Children’s Distance Reading & Enrichment Project
$5,000 to the Hill Family Farm Education Center for general operating support
$2,440 to the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle for general operating support
$1,870 to Make-A-Wish Eastern North Carolina for granting wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions in Edgecombe County
$2,000 to Meals On Wheels of Tarboro NC for general operating support
$10,000 to Michael’s Angels Girls Club for the Lego STEM & Robotics Program
$2,000 to My Sister’s House for domestic violence support
$1,000 to the Ronald McDonald House of Eastern NC for general operating expenses for funding families from Edgecombe County
$1,250 to the Special Olympics North Carolina for the Edgecombe County program
$5,000 to Tarboro Community Outreach for food redistribution
$5,000 to Teach For America – Eastern North Carolina for supporting educational leaders and the students of Edgecombe County
$1,500 to the Truth Foundational Ministries CDC Inc (TFM) for the food pantry

Mary Jane Jenkins, board president, thanked the community for its continued support of the Edgecombe Charitable Foundation. “We are proud to support these nonprofit programs that are so vital to the community,” she said. “We are grateful to the many generous individuals and organizations that have supported our work to inspire philanthropy across our community.”

For further information, contact NCCF Community Leadership Officer Dawn Neighbors at (910) 292-4437 or dneighbors@nccommunityfoundation.org.