Resources
Using a Collective Impact Model in Communities to Improve the Physical Environment
The physical environment — the places where individuals live, work, and play — can cause or prevent serious health conditions including chronic diseases and obesity. In North Carolina, the Collective Impact Model serves as the foundation on which multisector community coalitions can address environmental and policy barriers for improved health.
Oral Health in America
This report highlights the most promising new approaches for improving oral health and for ensuring that all Americans enjoy its benefits. Finally,
Clergy Health Initiative Retirement Report - 2022
This report presents findings on the well-being of United Methodist clergy ages 55 and older, and the well-being of clergy retired 4 years or fewer.
Mobilizing Rural Churches to Improve Early Childhood Literacy in North Carolina
This May 2021 report by Project Evident shows how The Duke Endowment is using evidence to build and scale a summer literacy program in rural communities.
A Technical Assistance Curriculum for Expanding Sustainable School-Based Oral Health Programs in the Carolinas’ Dental Safety Net
School-based oral health programs (SBOHPs) provide opportunities to address oral health inequities by providing convenient access points for care. No published guidelines on SBOHP implementation existed. Our work describes how philanthropic, public, and academic organizations partnered to support dental safety net providers with designing comprehensive SBOHPs in North and South Carolina.
Community-Academic Partnership to Improve the Oral Health of Underserved Schoolchildren in Rural North Carolina
Dental care is is the most common chronic illness for children. Caries can reduce the quality of life, cause missed classroom hours, and decrease cognition. Strategies to improve children’s oral health must be evidence-based, developed, and implemented in consultation with communities.
2019 Annual Report: Partners in Progress
We invite you to read stories of how we engaged as “collaborating partners” in 2019 through our Child and Family Well-Being program area, “innovating partners” in Health Care, “contributing partners” in Higher Education, and “initiating partners” in Rural Church in our 2019 annual report. This download includes the full annual report with grantmaking and financial addenda.
Philanthropy as the South’s Passing Gear: Fulfilling the Promise
The report highlights the value of The Duke Endowment’s “Pay for Success” partnership with Nurse-Family Partnership and the state of South Carolina.
The Student Resilience And Well-Being Project
A five-year initiative to assess and promote the conditions that help college students flourish. Learn how four campuses in the Carolinas worked together to study college student resilience.
Executive Summary: Evaluation of the Nurse Family Partnership in North Carolina
Study Shows Significantly Fewer Very Pre-Term Births and Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit (NICU) Admissions Among Nurse-Family Partnership Participants.
Full Report: Evaluation of the Nurse Family Partnership in North Carolina
Study Shows Significantly Fewer Very Pre-Term Births and Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit (NICU) Admissions Among Nurse-Family Partnership Participants.
Family Finding Evaluations: A Summary of Recent Findings
Assessing the impact of locating relatives of children in foster care.
Recent Uploads
2025 Grantmaking
pdf | September 8, 2026
2025 Annual Report: A Shared Pursuit
pdf | August 31, 2026
Kin-First Roadmap
pdf | August 10, 2026
The Duke Family Tree
pdf | December 10, 2025