{"tinyMCE_dummy":"","title":"Lenoir County Community Foundation awards more than $8,000 in local grants","url":"\/news\/lenoir-county-community-foundation-awards-more-than-8000-in-local-grants","meta":{"title":"","description":"","excludeFromSitemap":"No"},"ordinal":999,"content":"<p>The board of advisors of the Lenoir County Community Foundation recently announced $8,600 in local grant awards from its community grantmaking fund and the Warren and Barbara Perry Fund.<\/p>\r\n<p>This year the board granted:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>$1,000 to Girl Scouts &ndash; North Carolina Coastal Pines for Lenoir County Girl Scout Leadership Experience<\/li>\r\n<li>$2,500 to Hope Restorations, Inc. for Hope Restorations Rebuilding Lives, Rebuilding East Kinston<\/li>\r\n<li>$800 to Kinston-Lenoir County Friends of the Library for Building STEM Skills in Lenoir County<\/li>\r\n<li>$1,050 to NC United Methodist Camp &amp; Retreat Ministries, Inc. for stablishing a need-based scholarship for environmental education and teambuilding at Camp Don Lee<\/li>\r\n<li>$550 to Pink Hill Elementary for&rdquo; In the Groove and On the Move&rdquo;<\/li>\r\n<li>$1,200 to R.A.D.D., Inc. for their annual day trip<\/li>\r\n<li>$1,500 to the Young Women&rsquo;s Outreach Center for the &ldquo;Good GANG&rdquo; Women Support Program<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Frances Theodorakis, board president, thanked the community for its continued support of the Lenoir County Community Foundation. &ldquo;We are proud to support these nonprofit programs that are so vital to the community,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We are grateful to the many generous individuals and organizations that have supported our work to inspire philanthropy across our community.&rdquo;<\/p>","excerpt":"","media":0,"custom":{"masthead":{"title":"","counties":"","affiliate_logo":"","sub_text":"","background_image":"","caption":""},"post_image":{"image":""},"latest_blog":{"post":""}},"inMenu":false,"visibleTo":"Everyone","publishedAt":1563462305,"orderChildrenBy":"ordinal","enableComments":false,"id":"ecfb943873394d9b9976cd21711b6af5","parent":"31bc018cb0694068b20999237c54f462","node":64295,"created":1563462306,"modified":1563462306,"fresh":1,"type":"post","children":{},"relations":{"category":[{"title":"Lenoir County Community Foundation","source":null,"url":"\/categories\/communities\/coastal-plain-south\/lenoir-county-community-foundation","content":"","inMenu":false,"publishedAt":1536247603,"meta":{"title":"","description":"","excludeFromSitemap":"No"},"ordinal":0,"orderChildrenBy":"","permission":"write","tinyMCE_dummy":"","excerpt":"","media":"0","visibleTo":"Everyone","id":"f9703489b0bb4bea80a617c45ff7e8ad","parent":"6d8da39b7f044616bf6c68e1dc59af1e","node":20850,"created":1533158461,"modified":1536247603,"fresh":1,"type":"f9a6b2b005cb46ed8778f11c37e4d3a5","children":{}}]},"permission":"read"}