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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.

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Adventures in giving: The Kennedy Endowment Fund

April 5, 2024

In his youth, Payson Kennedy came to believe—through the example of family members—that it is important to share what you have with those who…

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Additional $15,000 in grants available for nonprofits from the Community Foundation for Randolph County

March 28, 2024

Charitable organizations focused on improving health in Randolph County have additional opportunities for grants this spring from the Community Foundation for Randolph County.An…

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A life of impact: through work, public service and philanthropy

March 25, 2024

Some civically-minded people help their community through their profession. Others, through their public service. And still others, by leaving a legacy that lives on…