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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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6 Things to Know… Pathways to Grade-Level Reading

The first eight years of a child’s life are a critical time that build the foundation for future learning. In fact, research shows that reading proficiently by the end of third grade predicts a child’s later academic achievement and career success.

August 5, 2021 | Meka S. Sales

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Teledentistry and Dental Hygienist Legislation Ratified by the North Carolina General Assembly

The new legislation formalizies teledentistry and allows dental hygienists to administer local anesthesia has been ratified by the North Carolina General Assembly.

July 22, 2021 | Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation

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Time to Celebrate the Reunification of Families

June is National Reunification Month — time to celebrate children moving from foster care back to their biological families.

June 1, 2021 | Phillip H. Redmond Jr.

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Saluting Dedicated Foster Parents Across the Carolinas

Our Child and Family Well-Being program area spotlights May as National Foster Care Month.

May 17, 2021 | Tamika D. Williams, Phillip H. Redmond Jr.

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Helping Children by Helping Communities

The historic Northside community in Spartanburg, S.C., has embraced an innovative effort to rebuild and transform for today’s residents and generations to come.

April 19, 2021 | Meka S. Sales

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6 Things to Know About “Hospital at Home”

A health care model that’s gaining traction across the country will soon be offered to patients in South Carolina, allowing them to receive acute-level hospital care — at home

April 19, 2021 | Lin B. Hollowell III

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Renewing Hope, Rebuilding Lives

In Kinston, North Carolina, Hope Restorations is offering transformation — one life, one house, one neighborhood at a time.

April 19, 2021 | Robert R. Webb III

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Preparing Students for Lives of Purpose

When leaders at Furman University talk about The Furman Advantage, they often use the word “transformational.” Elizabeth Davis, the university’s president since 2014, says that’s intentional.

April 19, 2021 | Susan L. McConnell

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Furman Receives Second $25 Million Grant From The Duke Endowment

New grant brings the total direct support for The Furman Advantage from The Duke Endowment to $52.5 million.

March 23, 2021 | Furman.edu

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Supporting A Strong Start for Children

In 2018, The Duke Endowment announced a strategic emphasis on early childhood as a way to amplify our existing program area work and help us produce greater impact across our grantmaking. Duke University experts helped us formulate the shared outcomes that steer our Zero to Eight work.

February 21, 2021 | The Duke Endowment

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Why We’re Focusing on Families in 2021

As we fight sickness, anxiety and social upheaval, strong families are more important than ever. That's why our Child and Family Well-Being program area is making strong families its focus for 2021.

January 28, 2021 | Phillip H. Redmond Jr., Tamika D. Williams

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Four Staff Members Promoted at The Duke Endowment

Trustees of The Duke Endowment have approved four recent staff promotions.

January 15, 2021 | The Duke Endowment