Our Giving Together program increases impact by pooling Foundation and donor resources to support strong organizations and collaborations making a difference in our community. By encouraging collective giving with our generous fundholders for critical issues, we can better support a strong ecosystem of nonprofit organizations in the Triangle. The nonprofit partners highlighted through Giving Together are doing critical work in our community helping people in need, and we believe in them.
Current Initiative: Educated & Empowered Youth
Since March, students of all ages in our community have faced unprecedented challenges and disruption to their education. The learning loss gap and technological divide continues to grow, and will likely affect students for years to come. We know that our region's students need support now and in the years to come - will you help us sustain our youth-focused programming to ensure that we can meet those needs?
At Triangle Community Foundation, our new Education & Youth Impact Area is focused on educating and empowering our next generation of leaders. We do this through grants to youth-serving nonprofits, scholarships for postsecondary education, financial assistance for scholarship recipients for non-tuition costs, and hosting a youth intern to build job skills and capacity. We’re excited about the impact we are making now and in the future - but we need your help to do so.
The Foundation has made significant investments to support this impact area in the coming year, and your support will allow us to fund this important work in the future, while granting us the flexibility to apply funds to the areas of greatest need, which will continue to emerge during this pandemic and beyond.
We have set a goal to raise an additional $50,000 from donors by 12/31, and we hope you will help!
A gift to our Education & Youth Impact Area through our Giving Together program will support our future leaders as they finish their current educational track, access and complete college, and grow in to the confident, involved community members we already know they can be.
Questions?
We'd love to chat. Contact Sarah Battersby at sarah@trianglecf.org with any questions.
Past Initiatives
Community Development Fall/Winter 2019
Total granted after the Foundation’s contribution: $400,000
Chapel Hill Carrboro Meals on Wheels | Chatham Outreach Alliance (CORA Food Pantry) | Community Success Initiative & Communities in Partnership | Durham Community Land Trustees | El Futuro | Families Moving Forward | Inter-Faith Council for Social Service | LGBTQ Center of Durham | Families Together | Rebuilding Together of the Triangle| Refugee Community Partnership |The Hope Center at Pullen | The Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History | Western Wake Crisis Ministry | Wheels4Hope
Environmental Conservation 2019
Total granted after the Foundation’s contribution: $285,000
Black Family Land Trust, Inc. | City of Oaks Foundation | El Futuro | Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association | Extra Terrestrial Projects | Friends of the DPS Hub Farm | Haw River Assembly | Learning Outside | North Carolina Botanical Garden | Orange County Partnership for Young Children | Piedmont Conservation Council (Awareness) | Transplanting Traditions Community Farm | Triangle Bikeworks | Triangle Land Conservancy | YMCA of the Triangle Area
Community Development 2017
Total raised from generous donors: $150,330 | Total granted after the Foundation’s contribution: $225,330.
Club Nova Community | Community Health Coalition, Inc. | Durham CAN (Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods) | Durham Center for Senior Life | El Centro Hispano | Fostering Youth Opportunities Collaborative | Johnson Service Corps | LIFE Skills Foundation | Rebuilding Together of the Triangle (RTT) | SEEDS | Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) | Threshold Inc | UNC Refugee Mental Health and Wellness Initiative | White Oak Foundation, Inc. | Women’s Center of Wake County
Innovation Award: 2017
Total raised from generous donors: $24,000| Total granted after the Foundation’s contribution: $49,000. Five finalists competed for the 2017 Innovation Award, with Bridge Builders winning the $25,000 grant.
Durham Waste Revolution | Preservation Equity | UpCycle to Break the Cycle | Chatham Senior Games Training Program | Bridge Builders
Community Development: 2016
Total raised from generous donors: $41,550 | Total granted after the Foundation’s contribution: $86,050
This funding was granted to ten of our past community development partners: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh, Inc. | Compass Center for Women and Families | Community Empowerment Fund | Dress for Success Triangle | Durham Economic Resource Center | Families Moving Forward (previously Durham Interfaith Hospitality Network and Genesis Home) | Farmworker Advocacy Network (led by Student Action with Farmworkers) | Passage Home, Inc. | Rapid Rehousing Collaborative (Led by Housing for New Hope in partnership with Durham’s Partnership for Children, Families Moving Forward, and Urban Ministries of Durham) | Triangle Family Services
Youth Literacy: 2016
Total raised from generous donors: $45,000 | Total granted after the Foundation’s contribution: $90,000
This funding was granted to nine of our past youth literacy partners: Book Harvest | Communities In Schools of Wake County | The Hill Center | Kidznotes | Learning Together | Marbles Kids Museum | Read and Feed | WakeEd Partnership | YMCA of the Triangle