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Endowment Intends to Distribute Up to $5B Over 15 Years

December 10, 2024 | The Duke Endowment

The Duke Endowment’s Trustees announced their intent to distribute up to $5 billion in grants across North Carolina and South Carolina over the next 15 years.

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Healing at Home — Intensive Alternative Family Treatment (IAFT®)

The IAFT program is stabilizing foster youth and their families through trauma-informed, home-based care.

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From Empty to Essential: Repurposing Church Property to Build Community

Repurposing a closed church allowed the creation of Lydia’s Place, an independent nonprofit transitional shelter for women and children.

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Meet North Carolina’s Chief Scientist

David Yokum helps North Carolina state agencies use evidence to figure out what’s working, what’s not and what’s worth funding.

August 11, 2025 | An Interview with David Yokum, JD, PhD

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Building the Family Team – How Success Coaches Improve Family Permanency Across N.C.

The Success Coach model is helping children and families stay together after they leave the foster care system.

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Church-based Literacy Camps are Filling a Gap in Summer Learning

How church-based literacy camps are filling a gap in summer learning for rural students statewide.

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Ellie Smith Promoted to Program Officer at The Duke Endowment

The Duke Endowment is pleased to announce that Ellie Smith has been promoted to Program Officer with its Health Care grantmaking team.

July 16, 2025

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Atrium Health Foundation Receives Transformational Award from The Duke Endowment

Atrium Health Foundation was recently awarded over $4 million from The Duke Endowment through five grants.

July 14, 2025 | Atrium Health

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Bishop Hope Morgan Ward Appointed as a Trustee of The Duke Endowment

The Duke Endowment is pleased to announce the appointment of retired United Methodist Church Bishop Hope Morgan Ward to its Board of Trustees.

June 30, 2025

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Implementation Science: What It Is and How It’s Informing Our Grantmaking

Evidence-based programs and practices are a cornerstone of The Duke Endowment’s work and implementation science studies how best to support the successful adoption of proven or promising programs.

May 28, 2025

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Video Series: Duke Scholars in Their Own Words

In our new video series, Duke Scholars at the Endowment's four beneficiary schools explain how the scholarships have advanced their educational goals.

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Reimagining Church Real Estate

An adaptive reuse program is helping rural communities by giving unused church properties a new lease on life.

May 14, 2025

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North Carolina Invests in Therapeutic Foster Home Model

This month, The Duke Endowment’s Child and Family Well-being program area celebrates National Foster Care Awareness Month as time to recognize the resilience of children and youth experiencing the foster care system and the incredible caregivers who support them.

April 29, 2025