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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Partnering for Better Care
In the Carolinas, most mental health specialists work in cities. But mental health issues, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities occur all across the region, leaving rural residents to struggle with conditions that can impact every area of their lives.
January 2, 2017 | Lin B. Hollowell III
Accessible Health Care in Rural Community Hospitals
The Duke Endowment has a long and successful history of supporting hospitals throughout the Carolinas, particularly those in rural communities. Through this work, the Endowment has ensured that those in underserved communities have access to high quality health care close to home.
January 2, 2017 | Lin B. Hollowell III
Growing Stronger Families
Antiganee Kemp spotted the flyer outside a classroom at Midlands Technical College and was intrigued. The notice highlighted a program to help parents and children grow together by developing family-building skills and Kemp, a single parent, decided to sign up.
December 15, 2016 | Phillip H. Redmond Jr.
A "WARM" Response
The Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry, or WARM, began in 1996 when local United Methodist Church leaders organized disaster relief crews to repair damage caused by back-to-back hurricanes. Since then, WARM has worked to rebuild homes and restore hope for low-income neighbors in coastal North Carolina.
October 19, 2016 | Robert R. Webb III
Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Even as a little girl, Shawnee Garrick knew that diabetes had a grip on her family. Her grandmother died because of health complications from the disease; so did her grandfather. Her parents were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes a year apart.
May 5, 2016 | Lin B. Hollowell III
Weaving a Safety Net of Hope
On a warm day in late winter, a dozen teens take turns behind a wheelbarrow, filling it with rich compost and pushing it across a bumpy field. They are laughing and sweating, and before the afternoon sun slips away, they have six community garden beds ready for spring planting.
June 18, 2014 | Kristen R. Richardson-Frick
Path to the Pulpit
When the Rev. Brad Thie finished Duke Divinity School, his first appointment was to a tiny church in rural North Carolina.
December 9, 2013 | Robert R. Webb III
Sowing a Passion for Science
Laura Thompson doesn’t walk from her office to the classroom, she dashes. In conversations, her train of thought jumps the tracks, careening from one topic of interest to another. When she says she wakes at 6 eager for another day of work, you believe her.
December 9, 2013 | Susan L. McConnell