From Our President: Renewed Strategies for the Journey Ahead
March 17, 2022 | Rhett N. Mabry
Rhett Mabry shares reflections and insights coming out of the organization-wide effort to renew grantmaking strategies and create measurable impact on the lives and communities of the Carolinas.
Our Commitment to Supporting Nonprofit Leaders of Color
March 16, 2022 | Rhett N. Mabry, Tamika D. Williams
We are working with foundations from across North Carolina and South Carolina to pool resources in support of nonprofits led by persons of color in communities that have been marginalized.
Latest News & Stories
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As Rural Hospitals Struggle, A Hopeful New Model Emerges
UNC Hospitals, with support from the Endowment, has opened the doors of an innovative new labor and delivery unit in rural Siler City, N.C.
May 12, 2022 | Martha Carlough, Ellen Chetwynd, Katie Wouk

Fresh Start Program Tackles Type II Diabetes
Fresh Start, a partnership between East Carolina University nutrition students and free community care providers, offers free healthy food items, cooking classes, nutritional advice, learning lessons and more to low-income and uninsured diabetes patients throughout northeastern North Carolina. Read more here.
May 9, 2022 | The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.)

New S.C. Initiative Aims to Reduce the Need for Foster Care
S.C. leaders have announced Connected Families, a new public-private initiative to prevent child maltreatment, strengthen families, and improve mental health outcomes for families involved in child welfare services.
April 11, 2022 | S.C. First Steps

Celebrating Our Social Workers During National Social Work Month
March is National Social Work Month. Tamika Williams, associate director of The Duke Endowment’s Child and Family Well-Being program area, reflects on her early days as a child protective services social worker.
March 3, 2022 | Tamika D. Williams

Making a Difference for Latino Families
Margarita Franco is a small woman with kind brown eyes and a soft voice. But people use heavy words to describe her.
February 2, 2022 | Lin B. Hollowell III