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2004
Grants
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Community Programs
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| The
Arts Center of Carrboro |
$10,000 |
To
support a program that brings popular
children's entertainers to low-income
students. The Arts Center nourishes
the arts, creativity, and community
through education, performance, and
exhibition.
www.artscenterlive.org
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| Food
Bank of Central & Eastern North
Carolina |
$10,000 |
To
expand the services and reach of the
Food Bank, a nonprofit organization
that provides food to people at risk
of hunger in 34 counties in central
and eastern North Carolina.
www.foodbanknc.org
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| The
Healing Place of Wake County |
$2,500 |
To
provide operational funding for the
Healing Place, a new model for comprehensive
detoxification, rehabilitation, and
shelter of homeless individuals suffering
from alcohol and drug problems.
www.hpowc.org
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| The
Nature Conservancy |
$10,000 |
To
support the North Carolina Chapter
of The Nature Conservancy in its efforts
to protect critical natural lands.
On the Albemarle Peninsula of North
Carolina, The Conservancy is developing
strategies to protect existing natural
areas from climate change and rising
seas.
www.nature.org
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| North
Carolina Child Advocacy Institute
(NCCAI) |
$25,000 |
To
support operations aimed at making
North Carolina a better place to be
a child and to raise children. NCCAI
strives to improve the ways in which
government and public policy affect
the lives and life prospects of all
NC children and youth.
www.ncchild.org
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| NC
Rural Economic Development Center |
$2,000 |
To
fund a conference addressing the issue
of dislocated workers in North Carolina.
The Rural Center develops, promotes,
and implements sound economic strategies
to improve the quality of life of
rural North Carolinians.
www.ncruralcenter.org
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| Planned
Parenthood |
$5,000 |
To
support the operations of Planned
Parenthood of North Carolina. Planned
Parenthood offers the community a
wide range of reproductive health
care and counseling services, health
care education, and advocacy programs.
www.plannedparenthood.org
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| WUNC
Radio, University of North Carolina |
$25,000 |
To
provide continued support for the
news and informational programming
of this public radio station.
www.wunc.org |
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Education
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DonorsChoose
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$70,000 |
To
provide continued support of the North
Carolina expansion of DonorsChoose,
as well as national expansion efforts.
DonorsChoose provides an online forum
where public school teachers and individual
donors connect to give students the
resources they need to learn.
www.donorschoose.org
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| The
Friday Institute for Educational Innovation,
NC State University |
$10,000 |
To
support the operations of NC State’s
new state-of-the-art educational research
institute. Named after Bill and Ida
Friday, the state’s “First
Family of Education,” the institute
is designed to identify and formulate
innovative solutions to today’s
most pressing educational challenges.
www.ncsu.edu/friday
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| The
Mariposa School for Children with
Autism |
$20,000 |
To
facilitate expansion efforts, including
a move this year to a new, larger
building to accommodate rapid growth.
The Mariposa School provides intensive,
individualized instruction to children
with autism.
www.mariposaschool.org
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| North
Carolina Center for Advancement of
Teaching (NCCAT) |
$2,500 |
To
provide operational support for NCCAT.
The center’s residential study
programs are designed to give public
school teachers renewed vitality and
perspective, as well as new knowledge
they can use in the classroom.
www.nccat.org
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| Playspace
Children’s Museum |
$2,000 |
To
provide a general operating grant
for Playspace, a museum dedicated
to the education and development of
young children through hands-on, creative,
and interactive play.
www.playspacemuseum.com
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Entrepreneurship
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| Council
for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) |
$50,000 |
| $250,000
over 5 years
To continue a five-year grant aimed
at helping entrepreneurs succeed
in their business launches.
www.cednc.org
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Foundation
of Renewal for Eastern North Carolina
(FoR ENC) |
$2,000 |
To
support the operations of the Foundation
of Renewal for Eastern North Carolina.
FoR ENC is designed to serve as a
catalyst for economic and entrepreneurial
growth in Eastern North Carolina.
www.forenc.com
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Health
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| UNC
School of Public Health |
$20,000 |
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fund a special project, Quality
in Pediatric Subspecialty Care (QPSC),
an effort to radically improve and
standardize health care delivery
to children with serious medical
conditions. The American Board of
Pediatrics, the American Academy
of Pediatrics, and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
bring together expertise in data
collection and quality, collaborative
learning, and online teaching to
provide physicians with a robust
set of tools and training to establish
quality improvement programs in
their clinical practices.
The grant also aided development
of a Rich Internet Application to
support physicians' exploration
of data used for quality improvement.
This cutting-edge application only
requires connection to the Internet
and a web-browser to bring QPSC
data to the physician's desktop.
www.sph.unc.edu |
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