Community Programs


 
Carolina Arts Festival
$2,500
To fund weeklong performance workshops for culturally underserved young people. The Workshops for Young People culminated with an original dance performance at the Festival.
www.carolinaartsfestival.com

 
Digital Bridge for Habitat for Humanity
$7,500
To fund a planning grant, motivating others to support Digital Bridge in North Carolina. Digital Bridge has an initial goal of providing 1,000 low-income families with computers, Internet access, and training.

 
Hope Meadow $5,000
To provide funding for food and shelter to Hope Meadow, a one-year residential substance abuse treatment program for pregnant women and their children.
www.fwrs.org

 
Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina $10,000
To start a teen peer education program, TEEN CONNECTIONS, in Cumberland County, focused on adolescent pregnancy prevention.
www.plannedparenthood.org

 
WUNC Radio, University of North Carolina
$25,000
To provide the first-ever public radio service to 12 underserved and largely rural counties in northeastern North Carolina, including significant expansion to Tyrrell and Dare counties.
www.wunc.org/about

 


 
  Education


 
 
DonorsChoose
$70,000
$150,000 over 3 years
To expand DonorsChoose to North Carolina and provide support for the national organization. DonorsChoose is a nonprofit website where public school teachers and individual donors connect to give students the resources they need to learn.
Click here to read the press release.
 

The Mariposa School for Children with Autism
$25,000
To continue expansion of the Mariposa School for Children with Autism. The school has grown substantially in the past year and has plans to move to a larger building in 2004 to support this growth.
www.mariposaschool.org
 

Teach for America
$34,000
$100,000 over 3 years
To complete a three-year grant supporting the North Carolina chapter of Teach for America.
www.teachforamerica.org
 

Women in Mathematics
$3,000
To provide continued support for the Women and Math Mentoring Program, encouraging students to continue their study of mathematics and to learn about math-related careers.
www.womenandmathmentoring.org
 

 
 
Entrepreneurship


 
 
Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED)
$50,000

$250,000 over 5 years
To continue a five-year grant assisting entrepreneurs in their business ventures.
www.cednc.org

 


 
  Health


 
 
Duke University Medical Center, Division of Speech Pathology and Audiology
$10,000

To purchase high-tech digital hearing aids for a hearing aid “loaner program” to children. The loaner hearing aids are provided to families for whom the cost of a hearing aid is prohibitive.
dukehealth.org/surgery/div_speech_audiology.asp

 

The University of North Carolina School of Public Health
$20,000

$100,000 over 5 years
To continue a five-year grant for scientific research projects.
www.sph.unc.edu

 


 
Special Projects


 
 
Lafayette College
$27,500
To provide scholarships for undergraduate students to study abroad.
www.lafayette.edu
 
 
 
The Michael & Laura Brader-Araje Foundation has also provided financial support to the Lucy Daniels Foundation and Special Olympics.  

2006 Grants

2005 Grants

2004 Grants

2002 Grants

2001 Grants


 

©2006 Michael & Laura Brader-Araje Foundation