NCCF announces 2013 statewide women’s fund grants | North Carolina Community Foundation

Pictured on homepage: Sally Migliore, (L), NCCF community leadership director, presents a grant award to Susan Lee, executive director of Catawba County Parenting Network.

RALEIGH — The North Carolina Community Foundation (NCCF) is pleased to announce the 2013 grant recipients from the statewide Women’s Fund, according to Jennifer Tolle Whiteside, NCCF president and CEO. Receiving $2,000 each for a total of $10,000 in grants were:

Albemarle Hopeline, Pasquotank County
Ashe County Partnership for Children
Catawba County Parenting Network
Church on the Rise Peacemakers Family Center, Rocky Mount
Guiding Lights Caregiver Support Center, Wake County

NCCF’s statewide Women’s Fund focuses on programming that supports women and/or children, with particular emphasis on women’s health and leadership issues. Programs must serve areas within NCCF’s 67-county service area. Tolle Whiteside said the selection committee, which is comprised of representatives of most of NCCF’s local women’s giving programs from across the state, always has a difficult time choosing from among so many worthy grant applicants. “It’s always a challenge each year to choose among so many deserving grant-seekers,” she said. “We saw a lot of innovative and critical need requests,” she said.

NCCF’s eight regionally based women’s giving programs include the Women’s Giving Network of Wake County; the Bertie-Hertford Women’s Fund; the Women Givers of Northeast North Carolina, which serves Camden, Gates, Pasquotank and Perquimans counties; the Currituck-Dare Woman’s Fund; the Women Givers of Nash-Rocky Mount; the Art of Giving, a collective of Triangle women sponsored in conjunction with the Triangle Community Foundation; the Women’s Impact Network of New Hanover County; and the Cary Women’s Giving Network. Additional giving groups are in the planning stages.