At The Duke Endowment, we believe it is important to share data, resources and insights about our grants and our grantees’ work.
We use storytelling as one of our main communication tools. In this section, you’ll find stories and videos about specific efforts, both past and present, around key issues in our four program areas. By sharing these experiences, we hope to shed light on our mission and foster learning and collaboration in the field.
When Michael Binger talks about hunger and food insecurity, he focuses on abundance, not scarcity. Farmers grow enough for everyone, he says. We just need to find more ways to share the...
It’s a late December afternoon and Katie Foster’s small office at Lewisville High School is busy. This is crunch time for applying to colleges and students are fretting about writing...
As CEO of Hopeful Horizons, Shauw Chin Capps helped a struggling organization in coastal South Carolina grow into a children’s advocacy, domestic violence and rape crisis center that...
When Cathy Tolbert visits new clients in Greenwood, S.C., it doesn’t take long before they find something in common. Chances are good she goes to church with one of their siblings, or...
The first time the Stanfields met Alexis, she was 4. Dressed in pink shorts and a white T-shirt, she had long brown hair that draped her pale face. Removed from her family because of...
