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2024 first quarter | Market commentary and investment performance (January – March)

May 2, 2024

What we saw: Stocks continued a strong positive trajectory in the first quarter fueled by (perhaps unrealistic) optimism for future interest rate cuts…

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Acoustic Sunset at Sanctuary Vineyards to benefit Currituck Dare Community Foundation

April 30, 2024

The Currituck-Dare Community Foundation, an affiliate of the North Carolina Community Foundation, will be the beneficiary of Acoustic Sunset, an event at Sanctuary Vineyards…

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Tragic history provides impetus for scholarship fund

April 11, 2024

Although the Howe Scholarship Endowment is just a few years old, its origins go back more than a century, and its creation is an attempt to build hope for the future out of a tragic past.

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Teaming up with community

April 9, 2024

Philanthropy can help fill the gaps to support communities, and NCCF and our fundholders have readily stepped in to do so. 

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Endowment promises sustainable funding for arts-based teaching

April 9, 2024

Walk down the halls of one of North Carolina’s A+ Schools, and you’ll find children singing, dancing, drawing,

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Part of the solution: endowment provides sustainability for organization supporting people who are unhoused

April 8, 2024

In the early 1990s, Triangle-area health care providers realized many of their patients’ health outcomes weren’t improving because their basic needs were not being…

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Protecting North Carolina’s coast for generations to come

April 8, 2024

Ginger Webster, along with her husband Ralph and sister Kaye Lyerly, founded the Webster-Lyerly Endowment for Coastal Resource Protection in 2019. Since then, the…

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Watauga County Community Foundation highlights Hunger and Health Coalition

April 8, 2024

Watauga County Community Foundation advisory board members recently visited Boone-based nonprofit Hunger and Health Coalition to learn more about their work to support…

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Pender County endowment invests in educating the next generation

April 5, 2024

Businessman J.B. Lewis loved supporting young people, and he would often go the extra mile for them—literally.