Wake Forest raises over $112 million

Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem received over $112 million in gifts and commitments in the fiscal year that ended June 30, and bringing to over $700 million the total raised from over 59,000 donors in a campaign it launched its quiet phase in 2010.

Wake Forest in 2016 exceeded, two years ahead of scheduled, its initial goal of $600 million for the campaign, and its board of trustees has set a new goal of raising $1 billion by 2020.

The total raised in the just-ended fiscal year marked the third time the school has raised over $100 million in a single fiscal year since it launched the campaign.

Funds raised in the campaign include over $190 million for scholarships and financial aid, with a particular focus on access for first-generation and middle-class students; over $70 million to recruit and retain faculty, including the appointment of two new endowed “Presidential Chairs;” over $164 million for campus capital improvements; and a record-high $10.6 million in gifts for the University’s annual fund in the just-ended fiscal year.

Forsyth Tech gets $1.5 million

Forsyth Tech in Winston-Salem has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation that it will use to help create a Skilled Trades Building planned for its Stokes County Center in the Meadows community near Walnut Cove.

The building will provide high school students with career training opportunities in welding, plumbing, electrical systems and horticulture.

Winston-Salem Salvation Army shuffles fundraising team

The Salvation Army of Greater Winston-Salem has reorganized its development department, with Lisa Parrish, director of operations, moving to the job of development director.

Robin Stone, who has been director of development, now will serves as resource development director, while Adriene Smith, volunteer and resource coordinator, will serve as community outreach liaison.

Bob Campbell will continue to serve as director of marketing and public relations.

And Steve Waiksnoris, former director of development for Salvation Army of Greensboro, has joined Winston-Salem Salvation Army as development assistant.

Each member of the development department will report to Stan and Deborah Colbert, commanders majors at Salvation Army for the Greater Winston-Salem Area.

High Point Regional employees, staff raise $224,000

Nine hundred four employees and medical staff from High Point Regional this summer together raised $223,806 for the 2017 GiveStrong! Fundraising Campaign, the most every for the annual campaign and bringing to over $1 million the total raised since the campaign began in 2010.

Employees designated their contributions to support the area of greatest need, including High Point Regional’s Capital Campaign Fund for a major renovation and modernization project to advance clinical technology and facility improvements for the cardiology, oncology and surgical patient care programs.

Contributions were also designated for the Patient Special Needs Fund for individuals identified by hospital social workers to be in a crisis situation and have an immediate need for support.

N.C. Housing Coalition gets over $1.1 million

The North Carolina Housing Coalition has been awarded over $1.1 million to support homelessness-prevention work, and to expand access to housing counseling services in throughout North Carolina.

Funds awarded included $284,607 through Project Reinvest, an initiative sponsored by NeighborWorks America, to expand housing counseling to help clients stabilize their finances, rebuild their credit, and establish savings

The Coalition also received $676,208 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, $100,000 more than it received last year, which it will use to expand counseling services to homeowners and renters throughout the state.

And it will get $74,901 each in fiscal 2017-18 and 2018-19 from the N.C. Department of Health ad Human Services to supports a new conference it will hold each year for homeless service providers.

Sisters of Mercy Foundation gives $1 million

Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation in Belmont awarded grants totaling just over $1 million to 24 nonprofits in Buncombe, Caldwell, Catawba, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Rutherford, Transylvania and Union counties in North Carolina, and York County in South Carolina.

Of the 24 grants, nine totaling $372,800 focus on education; nine totaling $364,400 focus on social services; and six totaling $272,000 focus on health care.

Peglow new executive director at North Carolina Parent Teacher Congress

Catherine T. Peglow, former director of  continuing legal education for the North Carolina Bar Association Foundation, has joined the North Carolina Parent Teacher Congress as executive director and general counsel.

Malory joins Durham Chamber

Tiffany Malory, community outreach and special projects manager at the Durham Performing Arts Center, has been named  director of member relations of the Durham Chamber.

Dance event for kits set for August 5

Business and community leaders, law-enforcement officers, and over 40 children from the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Greensboro will gather August 5 at 2 p.m. for the Fifth Annual Greensboro Dance Day at the Boys & Girls Club at 1001 Freeman Mill Road.

Organized by Woodruff Family Law Group, ValuePointe.biz and Fred Astaire Studios Greensboro, the free summer dance camp began in 2012 with about 35 boys and girls. This year, all of 40 children, ages eight and nine, who have signed up will be learning choreography from international dancer Oleg Gorianskiy, and Catherine Cameron of Greensboro.

The event now has reached over 60 active participants, with the three organizers covering all costs of dance rehearsals, including professional dance instruction, healthy lifestyle suggestions, and healthy snacks after each rehearsal.

Greensboro Housing Coalition gets $7,000

Greensboro Housing Coalition has been awarded a grant of $7065  from the Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation it will use to expand into Guilford County and the City of High Point with its Healthy Homes Team services that aim to assist members of the community with housing problems as a result of inadequate living conditions such as needed repairs, mold and pest infestation.

Caswell Family Medical Center getting $28,000

Caswell Family Medical Center in Yanceyville has been awarded a grant award of $28,000 from the Office of Rural Health in the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, and will use the funds to hire a medication assistance coordinator who will work to assist patients in getting the prescription medications they need.

The grant program, which the Department of Health and Human Services began in 2003, now supports over 55 full-time employees working in organizations across the state who have helped over 36,000 patients get access to over 168,000 prescription medications valued at over $147 million.

Concert to benefit Hope for Haiti Foundation, Water for Good

Singer Eddie Money will headline the 8th Annual Rock Your World benefit concert on August 12 at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, with all proceeds going to Hope for Haiti Foundation and Water for Good.

Raleigh Little Theatre raises $740,000

A major-gifts effort at Raleigh Little Theatre to improve accessibility and technology throughout its campus raised over $740,000, including a contribution of $275,000 from the City of Raleigh, which was the largest single funder among 39 individuals and eight institutions that supported the project.

Raleigh Little Theatre and the City of Raleigh will break ground on September 7 on renovations to the Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre that were funded through the effort, which exceeded its goal by $15,000.

Raleigh Little Theatre also has named Georgia Donaldson president of its board of directors.

Smart heads national rural-health project

Allen Smart, former senior vice president and interim president of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in Winston-Salem, has been named lead project director for an 18-month national effort to find and support new ways to improve charitable efforts to boost rural health.

Campbell University in Buies Creek, where the project is based, has been awarded a grant of $730,248 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J., to fund the national effort.

The project aims to conduct local and regional analysis of private and public investments in rural health, as well as rural economic development and education in kindergarten through 12th grade, that “will ultimately generate a series of best practice reports, recommendations and new partnerships for consideration and sue by funders interested in better rural philanthropic practice,” Campbell says in a statement.

Smart, who announced in January he was leaving the Reynolds Trust, served as its interim president from September 2015 to June 2016, then resumed his role as vice president of programs in July 2016, when Laura Gerald, a pediatrician and former market medical director for Evolent Health in Raleigh, became president.

Reynolds Trust names vice president for programs

Tom Brown has joined the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in Winston-Salem as vice president of programs, and Alison Elster has joined the Trust as program coordinator.

Brown will oversee the work of the Trust’s two program areas — Health Improvement in North Carolina, and Local Impact in Forsyth County

He previously was senior corporate grant writer at Novant Health Foundation, and before that was executive director of REAL Entrepreneurship; senior program officer at North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund; and executive director of Faith in Action, a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in New Jersey.

Elster serves as the initial contact at the Trust for groups seeking to apply for grants, and  also provides administrative and communications support for the Trust’s program staff and major initiatives.

She previously served as development assistant at Guilford Child Development.

CASA buys 79 apartment units in Durham

CASA, a nonprofit developer and property manager of affordable housing, has purchased two apartment complexes in Durham with a total of 79 one-bedroom units.

The 44-unit Underwood Apartments at 811 Underwood Avenue and the 35-unit Maplewood Apartments, plus an office, at 1407 W. Chapel Hill Road, both in Durham’s West End, bring to 490 the number of units at CASA across Durham, Wake, and Orange counties.

CASA plans exterior improvements at both properties, including landscaping, fencing, parking lot repairs, and rebuilding of the aging staircases and balconies.

Asheville Merchants Fund gives $405,000

The Asheville Merchants Fund of The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina has awarded a total of $405,000 in grants to nine Buncombe County nonprofits for projects designed to strengthen community and stimulate economic growth.

Habitat Forsyth opens 4th ReStore

Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County has opened a new ReStore at 6491 Shallowford Road in Lewisville.

The 8,000-squate-foot store, located in long-vacant space in Lewisville Shopping Center, is Habitat’s fourth ReStore.

Bookmarks opens bookstore, event space

Bookmarks has opened its new home — including a nonprofit independent bookstore, and an event-and-gathering space — at 634 W. Fourth Street #110 in Winston-Salem.

Senior PharmAssist names board president

Tom Bacon, adjunct professor and research fellow at The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and retired program director of the state’s Area Health Education Centers, has been named president of the board of Senior PharmAssist in Durham.

High Point funder accepting grant applications

High Point Community Foundation is accepting online applications until midnight, August 16, from local public charities seeking grants from a total of $340,000 it will award this fall, up $15,000 from its grant budget a year ago.

The Foundation says it will give preference to projects that focus on issues involving education, “food security” and “community  cohesion.”

In 2016, the Foundation awarded grants to 19 organizations.

Kellan Moore to head John Rex Endowment

Kellan Moore, executive director of Care Share Health Alliance, will join the John Rex Endowment in Raleigh in mid-August as president and CEO.

She will succeed Kevin Cain, who in April announced his retirement after 16 years as president and CEO.

Moore previously served as program officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, and supervisor of corporate giving at Progress Energy.

Miller, Stradling join Wake Tech Foundation

Roxanne Miller, former development manager for the Poe Center for Health Education in Raleigh, has joined Wake Tech Foundation as director of development, and Meg Stradling, former director of finance at Triangle Family Services, has joined the Foundation as director of finance.

Wake Salvation Army names development director

Tara Shepherd-Bowdel, former regional development officer in the eastern U.S. for Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Ind., has joined Salvation Army of Wake County as director of development and community relations.

Boys & Girls Clubs getting $25,000

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Durham and Orange Counties is getting a $25,000 grant from Duke Energy to support activities involving science, technology, engineering and math at its Durham Club, which serves mainly low-income, at-risk youth.

Forsyth Tech gets $10,000

Forsyth Tech in Winston-Salem has received a $10,000 grant from Bank of America Foundation that it will use to to support its Economic and Workforce Development programs.

Forsyth Promise awarded $1,000

The Forsyth Promise in Winston-Salem has been awarded a $1,000 donation by the Prince Hall-affiliated Order of the Eastern Star.

Salvation Army to hose scavenger event

The Salvation Army of Wake County will host its 6th annual Most Amazing Race Raleigh on August 26 at downtown locations throughout downtown Raleigh.

The scavenger-hunt event last year raised over $30,000.

Fayetteville teacher Virginia Jicha has begun a two-year term as volunteer president of the North Carolina PTA.

Reynolds Trust targets inequity through systems change

The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in Winston-Salem, which turned 70 in June, has unveiled a new strategy designed to stimulate sustainable new ways to improve health and well-being in Forsyth County and throughout North Carolina.

It aims to do that through partnerships to address a persistent lack of opportunity rooted in long-standing inequities.

To put its new strategy into place after a year of study, the Trust has renamed its two divisions.

Health Improvement in North Carolina, formerly the Health Care Division, now will “support community-wide health improvements across the state,” the Trust says.

And Local Impact in Forsyth County, formerly the Poor and Needy Division, will work to “foster equitable and sustainable solutions in our hometown,” it says in a statement.

“We will only achieve equity and success when systems and policies change,” Laura Gerald, who joined the Trust as executive director a year ago, says in the statement.

Improving health and well-being requires investing in communities “where a persistent lack of opportunity prompts great need,” she says.

It also requires “changes in the systems that have historically perpetuated inequities,” saying those changes “are essential to affect outcomes that are sustainable,” she says.

To make those changes, she says, the Trust will work in partnerships with residents, local organizations and agencies “to influence those systems so everyone can have the opportunity to thrive.”

One Scholarship Fund awards $150,000

Project One Scholarship Fund in Charlotte awarded six Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students a total of $150,000 in scholarships of up to $25,000 per student to attend a four-year college, up from four students in 2016.

The scholarships, which include a four-year financial commitment and a mentoring component, help high school students from single-parent families in Mecklenburg County attend a public college or university that their families otherwise could not afford.

Elon gets $100,000 to endow scholarship

Elon University has received $100,000 from the family of 2004 graduate Michael Poteat — his sister Nicole Poteat and his parents George and Kathy Poteat — to endow a new Global Education Scholarship in his memory to help support Elon students with financial need who are suffering from a debilitating chronic disease have the experience of studying abroad.

Michael Poteat died in 2014 after being chronically ill for much of his life.

Event to benefit youth, young adults fighting cancer

Teen Center America will host the 2017 Nolan Smith TCA Hoop-a-thon Challenge on July 22 at the Emily K Center in Durham.

Co-founded by Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of rock band The Who, and headquartered in Los Angeles, Teen Center America is raising money for development of specialized facilities and services for adolescents and young adults fighting cancer.

Sponsoring and underwriting the TCA Hoop-a-thon is Raleigh-based First Citizens Bank, a primary corporate partner of Teen Cancer America.

Spay neuter clinic expanding in Gastonia

The Animal League of Gaston County has expanded and relocated its spay-neuter clinic and named it the Lenora Borchardt Spay Neuter Center, thanks to a gift from the Michael and Lenora Borchardt Family Foundation, a donor advised fund at Foundation For The Carolinas in Charlotte.

Habitat gets gift of prefabricated building panels

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro received a donation of prefabricated building panels, known as framing, from WeaverCooke Construction to create the walls of  home Habitat is building with funding from the Joy Foundation in memory of Janelle Johnson.

Women’s Professional Forum gives $10,000

Women’s Professional Forum in Greensboro awarded three grants totaling $10,000 to groups working to empower girls and young women.

The grants include $3,500 to American Association of University Women; $3,000 to Music for a Great Space; and $3,500 to The Volunteer Center.

Since 2003, the WPF Foundation has granted over $123,000 to community organizations and individuals to support women’s professional and personal development.

Emily Krzyzewski Center gets $9,500

The Emily Krzyzewski Center in Durham received a $9,500 grant from Duke Energy Foundation to support science, technology, engineering and math elements, and science-based elements, of its programs for elementary and middle-school students, and in the summer.

Witter joins Public School Forum

Sheronda Witter, former extension agent of 4-H youth development for North Carolina State University, serving youth and families in Orange County, has been named manager of the North Carolina Center for Afterschool Programs at The Public School Forum of North Carolina in Raleigh.

Co-founders of Living Art America honored

Scott Fray and Madelyn Greco, co-founders of Living Art America, received the Betty Cone Medal of Arts from ArtsGreensboro

Sponsored by AT&T, the award recognizes artists who have exceeded in their disciplines or made extraordinary contributions to their field or to the community through their artistry or expertise, or both.

Alamance United Way elects board chair, chair-elect

Pam Fox, president and CEO at Twin Lakes Community, has been elected chair of the board of directors of United Way of Alamance County, and Noah Sanders, a partner at accounting firm Gilliam, Coble & Moser, has been elected chair-elect.

Goodnight, Wynn join board of North Carolina GSK Foundation

Ann B. Goodnight,  senior director of community relations at SAS Institute, and Phail Wynn Jr., vice president for Durham and regional affairs at Duke University, have joined the board of directors of the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation.

Hospice support group focuses on overdose death

Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro has started a free support group for people grieving the overdose death of a loved one.

Greensboro has averaged 24 overdoses a month from opioid abuse since August 2016, up  from 10 a month one year ago, according to the Greensboro Police Department, Hospice says.

Barnabas Network holding sale at retail store

July 8 is the final day of a “Renovation Wrap-Up Sale” at the Retail Store of The Barnabas Network in Greensboro.

The sale at the store, which features donated, new and gently-used furniture, is designed to clear out inventory so the agency may refinish the floor of the retail space at its new location at 838 Winston St. in Greensboro.

Volunteers pitch in for Salvation Army

Twenty employees of Vann York Auto Mall volunteered at The Salvation Army of High Point on June 13 and 15, organizing the food pantry at The Salvation Army of High Point, filling food bags, and distributing food items to senior residents living at William Booth Garden Apartments.

BBQ event to support JDRF

Potent Potables will host the 3rd Annual BBQ Cook-Off on July 22 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 115 East Main St. in Jamestown to support the Piedmont Triad chapter of JDRF, which raises money for Type 1 diabetes research.

Oktoberfest to benefit Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will be the main beneficiary of the Fourth Annual Triangle Oktoberfest, which is organized by the Rotary Clubs of Apex Sunrise and Cary MacGregor and will be held at October 6-7 at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary.

Proceeds benefit the Triangle Oktoberfest Rotary Foundation, will make a donation to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society based on attendance and funds raised.

Convention & Visitors Bureau gives $268,000

The High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau awarded grants totaling $267,834 to 20 local nonprofits.

The grants program, which was launched in 1983 and funds tourist-related events or activities such as arts or cultural events, has awarded a total of over $4.9 million to 668 projects.

Grants aim to boost tourism, culture

May 4 at 5 p.m. is he deadline for submitting applications to the Special Events & Tourism Related Activities Committee of the Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Awarded once a year, the grants are designed to stimulate and assist organizations and agencies in Greensboro and Guilford County in the enhancement, promotion and marketing of tourism and culturally related events and activities.

Chowan funder gives $16,000

The Chowan Community Funds Foundation, an affiliate of the North Carolina Community Foundation, awarded nine local grants totaling $16,000.

Lemonade stands raise $1,800

Toll Brothers raised $806.50 at its Raleigh lemonade stands on June 10 and $1,020 at its Charlotte lemonade stands to support the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and its efforts to find cures for childhood cancer.

Grantseeking workshop scheduled

A free grantseeking workshop will be held July 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Braswell Memorial Library at 727 N. Grace St. in Rocky Mount for nonprofits in Edgecombe and Nash counties seeking grant funding from local affiliates of the North Carolina Community Foundation, including the Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation for Greater Rocky Mount, Edgecombe Charitable Foundation, and Women Givers of Nash-Rocky Mount.