Nurturing Children

Rhett Mabry, a Vice President at The Duke Endowment, discusses the Endowment's history and current focus in supporting children in North Carolina and South Carolina.

By expanding opportunities for vulnerable children in North Carolina and South Carolina, The Duke Endowment hopes to help them lead successful lives as they mature. We work through accredited organizations and other select nonprofit groups to help children, who are without the benefit of family support or are at risk of losing such support, reach developmental milestones and prepare for successful transitions to adulthood.

Helping Vulnerable Children Lead Successful Lives

Through our child care work, we hope to accomplish lasting change by supporting early intervention, collaborative approaches, and projects that help organizations serve children and their families more effectively. We focus on advancing evidence-based, nationally recognized practices that promote child well-being.

2011 Grantmaking

• Strong families: Help parents build stronger relationships, raise healthier children and keep families together by developing positive parenting skills and counteracting cycles of abuse and neglect.
• Successful adoptions: Increase the success of adoptive families by helping them prepare for and work through the stages of adoption, transition and attachment that create permanent emotional bonds.
• Youth development: Foster healthy relationship skills through mentoring programs that link children and youth with positive role models. Help children develop essential life skills and support teens as they transition to adulthood.
• Child protection: Mitigate the impact of child abuse through programs and initiatives that strengthen families and communities.
• Organizational effectiveness: Help increase the sustainability of nonprofits by providing staff training and improving systems supporting management, fund development, technology, governance, human resources and communications.
• System reform: Advance positive change in child welfare through innovation in public sector systems that provide mental health, juvenile justice and social services.

Child Care Grants

The Trustees of The Duke Endowment meet to review Child Care grant applications in June and December. Applications must be received by December 15 for consideration at the June meeting and June 15 for consideration at the December meeting.

Candidates for Grants

• Accredited, licensed residential children's homes
• Accredited adoption placement agencies
• Accredited child advocacy centers
• Public sector child welfare agencies (under certain circumstances)
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters agencies
• Prevent Child Abuse of North Carolina and South Carolina (and their local affiliates)
• Children and Family Services Association–NC
• South Carolina Association of Children's Homes and Family Services
• Organizations replicating proven models

More information for grantseekers can be found on this website, and in our Application Process Guide.

Child Care Staff

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