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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N.C. Institute of Medicine Announces New Task Force on Healthy Aging
The North Carolina Institute of Medicine has launched a Task Force on Healthy Aging to focus on policies and practices to support aging in place in North Carolina communities with funding from The Duke Endowment, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services and AARP North Carolina.
June 2, 2022 | N.C. Institute of Medicine
As Rural Hospitals Struggle, A Hopeful New Model Emerges
UNC Hospitals, with support from the Endowment, has opened the doors of an innovative new labor and delivery unit in rural Siler City, N.C.
May 12, 2022 | Martha Carlough, Ellen Chetwynd, Katie Wouk
Fresh Start Program Tackles Type II Diabetes
Fresh Start, a partnership between East Carolina University nutrition students and free community care providers, offers free healthy food items, cooking classes, nutritional advice, learning lessons and more to low-income and uninsured diabetes patients throughout northeastern North Carolina. Read more here.
May 9, 2022 | The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
New S.C. Initiative Aims to Reduce the Need for Foster Care
S.C. leaders have announced Connected Families, a new public-private initiative to prevent child maltreatment, strengthen families, and improve mental health outcomes for families involved in child welfare services.
April 11, 2022 | S.C. First Steps
Celebrating Our Social Workers During National Social Work Month
March is National Social Work Month. Tamika Williams, associate director of The Duke Endowment’s Child and Family Well-Being program area, reflects on her early days as a child protective services social worker.
March 3, 2022 | Tamika D. Williams
Making a Difference for Latino Families
Margarita Franco is a small woman with kind brown eyes and a soft voice. But people use heavy words to describe her.
February 2, 2022 | Lin B. Hollowell III