Welcome to the First Duke Endowment E-newsletter

E-newsletters are part of our effort to tell our story online and highlight our grantees and their work. We hope the information below will lead you to explore our redesigned website, where you’ll find lessons for funders, news for journalists, insights for policymakers and guidelines for grantees. We plan to publish quarterly, so you can expect our second e-newsletter in early summer.

Without relevant data, it’s difficult to determine if residential children’s homes deliver positive results. A new report reviews recent efforts to create a standard approach for measuring impact. “The fact that residential treatment is the ‘last stop’ for many youth makes it imperative that the treatment provided in these settings is effective,” the authors write. Read more.

With a growing number of low-income, uninsured people, many communities in North Carolina and South Carolina are forming local networks to coordinate care and improve access. Read about one county’s effort.

In the mountains of western North Carolina, Hinton Rural Life Center is helping families lower their debt and repair their credit, then move into affordable homes. Read more.

With a grant from The Duke Endowment, representatives from four colleges and universities in the Carolinas are working together to make their campuses more environmentally sustainable. Read about the unique collaboration in a Q & A with the task force chair.