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Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina
January i996
In Januaiy
EVINTS
TRIANGLE
Grantsmanship training
Raleigh
Jan. 22-26. Pines of Carolina Girl
Scout Council center. Five-day pro
gram by Grantsmanship Center in
Los Angeles covers researching
grants, writing grant proposals,
negotiating with funding sources. .
$595. Call Nicole Trail (919) 782-
3021.
STATEWIDE
Jan. 15 is deadline for artists/arts
groups making applications for N.C.
Arts Council's 1996 N.C. Touring
and Residency Artist Directory.
ELSEWHERE
United Way conference
Southern Pines
Jan 21 &22. MidPines Inn 1996
volunteer leaders conference &
annual meeting.
Agriculture conference
Lexington, Kentucky
Jan. 19-21.5th annual Southern
Sustainable Agriculture Working
Group conference and trade show.
January 1996
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Tom Chapin concert
Jan, 7, 3 p.m. Spirit Square.
Sponsor: Jewish Community Center.
$13. (704) 366-5007.
WBTV blood give-in
Jan. 11,9 a.m.-9 p.m. WBTV stu
dios, Sponsor: WBTV/American Red
Cross. (704)527-0313.
Wine, line & dine
Jan. 13,6 p.m. Hyatt SouthPark.
Line dancing. Sponsor: American
Heart Asso. $150. (704) 374-0632.
Martin Luther King breakfast
Jan. 15, 8 a.m. First Union Atrium.
Sponsor: McCorey YMCA. (704)
342-9362.
Taste of chocolate
Jan. 20, 11 a.m,-6 p.m. SouthPark
Suites. Sponsor: National Kidney
Foundation, $8. (704) 552-1351.
Great escape gala
Jan, 20, 7 p.m. Mint Museum.
Sponsor: Theatre Charlotte. $125.
Charlotte's largest office party
Jan. 26, 5-11 p.m. Convention
Center/Hall A. Sponsor: Shelter
Medical Clinic, (704) 372-8609.
Dinner-dance
Jan. 27. "Nicht Wi'Burns"
Embassy Suites Hotel. Sponsor:
Robert Burns Society. (704) 375-
4516.
Symphony concert
Jan. 27, 8 p.m. "Night with the
Divas." Ovens Auditorium. Sponsor:
Symphony and Delta's of Charlotte.
$25-$50. (704) 392-4753.
TRIANGLE
Twelfth night party
Raleigh
Jan. 5, 5:30 p.m.. Bishop's House
on St. Mary's College campus.
Sponsor: Preservation North
Carolina. Honoring Banb Talley.
Free. (919) 832-3652.
Comedy dinner
Raleigh
Jan. 6, 7 p.m,, Crabtree Marriott.
Sponsor: Jewish Community
Services. $45. (919) 781-5459.
Benefit concert
Durham
Jan. 12, 8 p.m.. Nelson Music
Room on Duke University East cam
pus. Sponsor: Durham Symphony.
$12.(919)560-2736.
Crystal ball
Chapel Hill
Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m,, Carolina inn.
Sponsor: Ackland Art Museum.
$125. (919) 967-9111 or 966-
5736.
Mystery Night
Raleigh
Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m., Longview
Estate. Sponsor: Family Services
Center. $50. (919) 821-0790.
Masked ball
Hillsborough
Jan. 20, 8 p.m., "Unmasking the
Violence," Hillsborough, Colonial
Inn. Sponsor: Orange/Durham
Coalition for Battered Women. $30.
(919) 688-4015, ext. #9.
Ball and art auction
Raleigh
Jan, 27, 7 p.m.. Woman's Club,
Sponsor: Wake Visual Arts
Association. $80. (919) 828-7834.
CALENDAR (meetings, seminars, workshops and fundroisets] items ore due the fifth working doy of the month.
For exomple, if your event is in June, we need information the first five days of May. The Journal will print os many items os space
permits Cal! (91 9) 899-3740 for forms.
Grants and Gifts
ARTS
Carolina Ballet Theater
received $ 100,000 from the
N.C. Dept, of Cultural
Resources.
IRIICATICIN
AT&T, donated 50 acres adja
cent to its complex in
Greensboro, along with labor
and materials, to build the
state's first Project WILD site,
where teachers can learn inspir
ing ways to teach kids about the
environment.
Theodore and Jacquie Leonard
of Lexington established the
Briggs-Green-Price Endowed
Scholarship Fund tor student-ath
letes in the football program at
Catawba College, Salisbury.
The Chatham Education
Foundation awarded $10,000 in
Creative Teaching Grants to nine
Chatham County schools:
Bonlee, Chatham Middle,
Horton Middle, J.S. Waters,
Moncure, Silk Hope, North
Chatham Elem., Pittsboro Elem.
and Siler City Elem.
Foundation for Good Business,
Extra Special Super Kids
Scholarship Program, two col
lege scholarships in honor of the
late Giles Crowell of Raleigh,
from members of North Carolina
Petroleum Marketers Assn.
North Carolina Partnership for
Accelerated Schools, $200,000
for a new middle school teacher
preparation program at N.C.
State University, from Philip
Morris Companies Inc.
Triangle Radio Reading
Service, Raleigh, $3,500, from
the Glaxo Wellcome Inc. Special
Projects Fund of the Triangle
Comrnunity Foundation.
Wake Summerbridge, Raleigh,
new funding from The John
Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes
Foundation, Exide Electronics,
Caterpillar, Inc. and Carolina
Builders, Inc. for year-round,
tuition-free educational program
for diverse middle school stu
dents.
FOUilllATIGNS
Foundation for the Carolinas,
Charlotte, awarded $17,500 in
seed grants to the following:
Alexander Children's Center,
$5,000 for home-based pro
gram for emotionally disturbed
children;
Catawba Lands Conservancy,
$5,000 for land trust organiza
tional development and increase
in donor base;
Society of St. Andrew, $5,000
for Gleaning Network and
Potato Project, both hunger relief
programs;
Children's Services Network,
$2,500 to establish integrated
. research database of children's
senrices in Charlotte-
Mecklenburg.
Cherokee County (S.C.)
Community Foundation received
$ 100,000 from the Timken
Foundation.
Cleveland County Community
Foundation awarded $5,000 to
the following:
Cleveland County Arts
Council, $750 for Passport to
the Arts program for 4th-
groders;
Cleveland County Girls' Club,
$1,100 for moth and reading
tutors;
Living Independently Through
Volunteers for the Elderly of
Cleveland County, $850 for
public-oworeness campaign;
Mental Health Assn, in
Cleveland County, $800 for
depression support group;
Pioneer Girl Scout Council,
$1,500 for membership materi
als for low-income neighbor
hoods.
Winston-Salem Foundation
awarded following grants in
Winston-Salem:
Piedmont Opera Theatre, Inc.,
$9,500 to commission opera of
Ordinary People;
The Adoptobles, Inc., $7,000
for wheelchair sports program;
Salem Academy and College,
$16,500, for Early Education &
Leadership Program;
SECCA, $ 15,000, for exhibit
about history of Africon-
Americcn residents of Old
Salem;
Southeast Gateway Council,
$30,000, for land acquisition
and pork development
Tri-City Relays Track
Club/Acodemics and Athletics,
Inc,, $5,000;
Moravian Music Foundation,
$25,000 to microfilm music
archives;
Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts,
Inc., $4,000 to heighten aware
ness of John Biggers murals at
Winston-Salem State University;
Winston-Salem Piedmont Triad
Symphony, $25,000 to prepare
for symphony's 1997 endow
ment campaign;
Winston-Salem State University,
Another Chance program,
$35,400, to give high school
graduates access to post-sec
ondary education;
Medical Center/Bowmon
Groy/Boptist Hospital, $22,500
to start children's cancer support
program;
Forsyth Jail and Prison
Ministries, Youth Focus 2000
program, $12,500 to help
young inmates re-enter commu
nity;
Winston-Solem/Forsyth County
Host Committee, Inc., $12,500
for community activities in con
junction with Italian 1996
Olympic teams training in
Winston-Salem;
Agency Executives Assn.,
$25,000 for diversity training;
CONTACT: Winston-Salem,
$25,000;
Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth
County, Inc., $14,000 for
fundraising activities;
Historic Bethoboro Pork,
$24,000 for outreach programs
for neighboring communities;
Juvenile Justice Council,
$12,000 to create community
wide agendo for children, youth
and families;
Rufus Dalton Award, $4,880
to honor three police officers
injured in line of duty;
Southeast Winston Rescue
Squad, Inc., $35,000 for pur
chase of new facility;
Stop Child Abuse Now,
$30,000 for capital campaign;
Bethesdo Center for the
Homeless, $11,547 for person
al development plans for home
less clients;
Community Services Research
Group, $10,000 for 1995 oper
ating budget;
Eostgote Village Resident
Council, $1,700 for recreation
projects;
Fairchild Hills Community
Tenants Asso., $3,180 for play
ground equipment and supplies;
Association for the Benefit of
Child Development, Inc.,
$20,000 for Best Start peer
counseling program;
SECCA, $1,000 for perfor
mance of "Presenting Mr.
Frederick Douglass;"
Winston-Solem/Forsyth County
Schools, $80,600 for race rela
tions training in schools;
Reynoldo House Museum of
American Art, $10,000 for
school program "Examining Our
Prejudices By Looking at
American Art;"
YWCA of Winston-
Solem/Forsyth County, $46,100
for Empowering Families Center;
Support Our Students/YMCA,
$30,000 for after-school pro
gram for at-risk middle students;
Greater Winston-Salem
Chamber of Commerce,
$75,000 for Minority Business
Development program;
Winston-Salem Foundation
grants elsewhere:
North Carolina Lions
Foundation, Inc., Sherrills Ford,
$20,000 tor maintenance of
Comp Dogwood tor visually
impaired;
North Carolina Public
Television Foundation, Inc.,
Research Triangle Pork, $2,500
to recognize Forsyth County
youth who has worked to prevent
violence;
Shepherd's Center of
• Kernersville, $20,000 for admin
istrative assistant.
Union County Community
Foundation received $2,500
Boy Scouts moke luminorio kits for o Ronald McDonald House
fundraiser in Greenville.
from United Carolina Bonk.
Partnerships in Assistive
Technology, Rolteigh, two grants
to make telecommunications
more accessible to North .
Carolinians with disabilities:
$50,000 from the Dole
Foundation's Telecommunication
Funding Partnership and
$24,000 from U.S. Dept, of
Commerce's Notional
Technology Information
Assistance Program. Project
partners ore United Cerebral
Palsy Assn., The News &
Observer and BTI
Telecommunications.
Orange-Person-Chothom
Foundation for Mental Health,
$25,000 from Maiy Whiting
Ewing Foundation in Chapel
Hill, $1,750 from Village
Companies Foundation and
$2,500 from Mary Norris Preyer
Foundation tor Send A Kid To
Therapeutic Summer Comp
scholarship.
Planned Parenthood of the
Capitol & Coast, in Raleigh and
Wilmington, $1,970 for mid-life
services to under-served women,
from Planned Parenthood
Federation of America.
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lIRVICiS
Boy Scouts of America, Urban
Emphasis Program, High Point,
$30,000 for camping equipment
to introduce boys in public hous
ing and low income communites
to scouting, from Zenon C.R.
Hansen Foundation.
Building Together Ministries,
Halifax Court Public Housing
Community, Raleigh, $10,300
tor computer learning center,
from American Airlines Kids Are
Something Special Fund,
Michael and Cynthia Fronken
Fund, and John 3:16 Fund of
Triangle Community Foundation.
Food Bonk of North Carolina
will receive donations collected
during Food Lion's 1995
Consumer Sharing Checkout
Donation program.
Speedway Children's Charities
distributed more than $250,000
during annual Christmas tree
lighting ceremony at Charlotte
Motor Speedway, Dec. 6.
Raleigh Rescue Mission,
$1,086, from St. Timothy's
Lower School and St. Timothy's
Middle/Hole High School,
Raleigh for Thanksgiving meals
for the homeless.
February 15 is the deadline for
applications to the Fund for
Southern Communities' Helen's
Fund, which supports social-
change organizations working
with young people in Georgia
and fhe Carolinas. The Fund's
general application deadline is
March 1. Contact John Bell at
(919) 682-3702.