Stories
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Triangle Community Foundation is Moving!
Read more: Triangle Community Foundation is Moving!Triangle Community Foundation announced this month that they will be moving their office to The Frontier in the fall. The 33-year-old organization has occupied space at the American Tobacco campus in downtown Durham for the past ten years. President & CEO Lori O’Keefe expressed that staff is excited about the move, and the growing organization…
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Access to Camp Combats Summer Learning Loss
Read more: Access to Camp Combats Summer Learning LossSummer vacation is supposed to be a relaxing, idyllic time away from school for students. But the reality for many low-income children is a summer with too little stimulation and lack of access to enriching summer activities. That reality leads to the phenomenon commonly known as summer learning loss: Many students head back to school…
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2016 What Matters Community Luncheon: A Region of Opportunity
Read more: 2016 What Matters Community Luncheon: A Region of OpportunityDr. Anthony Iton can predict your lifespan with startling accuracy. He’s a John’s Hopkins-trained doctor, but he won’t need to examine you. He won’t need your medical history either. Iton just needs to know your address. “It shouldn’t work, but more often than not, it does,” he said. “Premature death is not randomly distributed. It…
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Focus on Housing: On the Road in East Durham
Read more: Focus on Housing: On the Road in East DurhamDonors and community leaders joined Foundation staff for two simultaneous bus tours of East Durham in early March, one based on Education and the other on Housing. The following story is one writer’s account of the Housing tour. To view a photo-journalistic account of the Education tour, please click here. The early-morning chill was just…
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Through the Lens: Education Bus Tour in East Durham
Read more: Through the Lens: Education Bus Tour in East DurhamDonors and friends embarked on a bus tour of East Durham in March of 2016, some learning about Housing and some about Education. To read the story on the housing tour, click here. Below is one photo-journalist’s account of the education tour. David Reese, president and chief executive of the East Durham Children’s Initiative (EDCI)…
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Giving Back & Looking Forward: An Interview with Pat Nathan
Read more: Giving Back & Looking Forward: An Interview with Pat NathanWhy do you believe in the importance of giving back? I find my greatest fulfillment in working with others towards a common goal. To operate at my fullest capacity, I need to share a variety of assets including life experiences, skills, connections and financial resources. What are the causes that YOU care about? As a successful business…
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Donor Awards Hard Work with Opportunity
Read more: Donor Awards Hard Work with OpportunityWhen Daniel Flores arrived in Chapel Hill from El Salvador four years ago at age 14 to join his mother, who had left him with his grandmother and aunt six years earlier so she could find a job in the U.S., he could not speak English. It took him two years to learn the language,…
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Siler City Unidos: Working to Unify a Community
Read more: Siler City Unidos: Working to Unify a CommunityThe Chatham County town of Siler City is 50 percent Latino — but the town’s leaders and most engaged residents are overwhelmingly white. Sergio Borrayo, a code enforcement officer for the town, says it is hard to engage the Latino population in community life. “I think that a number of people do not believe that their…
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Second Helpings: Aiming to Break the Cycle
Read more: Second Helpings: Aiming to Break the CycleDrew Doll applied for 138 different jobs in the 30 days after he was released from prison. “One-hundred-thirty-seven said no,” Doll said, “But I kept at it.” He landed an accounting job and started putting his life back together. But he was troubled by the experience he had, one that’s familiar to former prisoners. In…
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Ron Strom: Passionate Philanthropist
Read more: Ron Strom: Passionate PhilanthropistThe following is an interview with Ron Strom (R), Foundation fundholder, conducted by Meg Buckingham (M), senior marketing & communications officer for the Foundation. M: Ron, tell me a little about your passion, and how you connect it to your philanthropy. R: My personal passions involve connecting with the environment and with others. I grew…
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A Family Rooted in Philanthropy: Mary and Dale Carey
Read more: A Family Rooted in Philanthropy: Mary and Dale CareyThe following is an interview with Mary (MC) & Dale (DC) Carey, Foundation Fundholders, conducted by Meg Buckingham (M), senior marketing & communications officer for the Foundation. M: Mary & Dale, tell me a little about your passion, and how you connect it to your philanthropy. MC: That’s easy. Literacy and Hunger. Hunger, because we…
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A Different Way to Give: NGAAP
Read more: A Different Way to Give: NGAAPThe following is an interview with Michelle (MSM) Serrano-Mills & Linsey (LM) Mills, Foundation fundholders with NGAAP, conducted by Meg Buckingham (M), senior marketing & communications officer for the Foundation. M: Michelle and Linsey, can you tell me a little more about NGAAP, and why you choose to do your philanthropy through collective means? LM:…