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16 Philaathropy Journal of North Carolina May 1996 In May PROiEisiomti EVENTS EASTERN N.C. Southeastern Green Building Conference and Exhibition Wilmington Conference to be held October 7- 9 at the Wilmington Hilton. Potential conference speakers are now being sought. Interested individuals should contact NC Green Building Council. All presentation abstracts should be submitted by June 4, 1996. Call Ramsey Zimmerman,(919) 851 - 8444. TRIAD Internet 101 Workshop Winston-Salem May 10, 17, 31. Registration at 9:30 am., workshop at 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Forsyth Technical Community College. Sponsored by ARTS North Carolina. Call (919) 834-141 l;e- mail: artsnc@aol.com. Planned Parenthood Training Institute Burlington May 14. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. "Making A World of Difference: Teaching Multiculturol Appreciation." Sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Orange and Durham Counties. $65. Call (919) 929-5402. Not-For-Profit Accounting Conference Greensboro May 14. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sponsored by N.C. Association of Certified Public Accountants and N.C. Center for Nonprofits. Call Shawn Long, (919) 571-0811. Developing Your Strengths in Supervisory Relationships Greensboro May 29. 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Registration, 8:30 a.m. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Room 30, 1200 N. Elm St. Co-sponsored by UNC-CH School of Social Work and Greensboro AHEC. $70. Call (919) 962-0650. TRIANGLE The Hiring Process from A to Z Research Triangle Park May 16. 8:30a.m.-l p.m. Workshop sponsored by the Triangle - i »- TH F SA 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 United Way. Call Paula Bennington,(919) 833-5739. Workshops in Business & Technical Writing Carrboro Tuesdays, May 7-June 11.7-9 p.m and Thursdays, May 9-June 13. 7-9 p.m. "Writing in the Workplace: A Workshop in Better Business Writing," sponsored by the Center for Business and Technical Writing, a program of the North Carolina Writers'Network. Call (919) 967- 0491. Statewide Conference on Voiunteerism Durham May 19-22. OMNI Durham Hotel and Durham Civic Center. Leadership Development: A "Bullish" Approach, co-sponsored by the N.C. Association of Volunteer Administration and Governor's One- on-One. Presented and hosted by the Durham Area Volunteer Administrators. Conference will also include a live auction at Duke Homestead. Call Chuck Hemric, (919) 684-3698. Composting Management Training Course DuHiam May 22. North Carolina Museum of Life and Science Creekside Conference Room. Sponsored by the N.C. Composting and Organics Recycling Council, a council of the N.C. Recycling Association, in part nership with the N.C. Office of Waste Reduction and the National Backyard Composting Program. Call 919-851-8444. Creatively Managing Change and Conflict Chapel Hill May 28. 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Registration, 8:30 a.m. Tate Turner Kuralt Building, Room 300. Sponsored by UNC-CH School of Social Work. Call (919) 962-0650. WESTERN N.C. Ministry of Money Basic Workshop Hickory May 10-12. Catholic Conference Center. Sponsored by the Servant Leadership School of Greensboro. Call Hayes and Clem Clement, (910)282-7421. The Use of Play in Family Therapy Asheville May 21.9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registration, 8:30 a.m. Mountain AHEC, 501 BiltmoreAve. Co-spon sored by the UNC-Chapel School of Social Work and Mountain AHEC. Call (919) 962-0650. ELSEWHERE Fund Raising for Small Nonprofits Alexandria, VA May 22-24. Sponsored by The Fund Raising School of The Indiona University Center on Philanthropy. Contact the Center at 550 West North Street, Suite 301, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, or call (800) 962-6692, Fax (317) 684-8900. Planned Giving Days in Washington '96 Arlington, VA May 23-24. Key Bridge Marriott Hotel. Sponsored by The Planned Giving Study Group of Greater Washington, DC. Contact Cariene Cooke, (301) 445-2716; Fax: (301) 445-2724. Developing Leadership for Major Gifts Alexandria, VA June 19-21. Sponsored by The Fund Raising School of The Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. Contact the Center at 550 West North Street, Suite 301, Indianapolis, IN 46202, or call (800) 962-6692; Fax (317-684-8900. NCADV Seventh Annual Conference Charleston, SC August 4-7. Sponsored by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Registration begins in April. Call the NCADV Conference Line, (303) 839-1455. ART$& ClllfliRE EASTERN N.C. The Community Arts Center Wilmington Arts Camp 96 will be held July 22- 26, July 29-August 2, August 5-9, and August 12-16 for older children. Camp runs from 9 a.m. -5 p.m. Fee is $65 per child. Call the Community Arts Center, (910) 341 - 7860. St. John's Museum of Art Wilmington April 19-June 9. 1995-96 North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship Recipients Exhibition. Museum open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday 12 noon - 4 p.m. Admission: $2 adults; $1 children under 18. Members free. Cape Fear Chordsmen Wilmington May 4, 8 p.m. Kenan Auditorium. Seventh annual concert by nonprofit Cape Fear Chordsmen, a barber shop harmony group. Tickets, $9 to $13. Call Bob Clark (910) 256- 6298. TRIAD AND CENTRAL PIED MONT All-Star Jazz Series Winston-Salem May 12 at 2:30 p.m.; June 16 at 2:30 p.m.; July 21 at 6 p.m.; August 18 at 6 p.m.; September 22 at 2:30 p.m.; October 20 at 2:30 p.m. Series offers the finest jazz artists from the Triad. Sponsored by the Southeastern Center for Look for CALENDAR, page 22 CALENDAR items (meetings, seminars, worbhops and fundraisers) are due the fifth working doy of the month. For enimple, if your event is in June, we need informotion the first hve days of May. The Journol will print os mony items as space peffflfts.Cal! Judith Otby at (919) 899-3740 for infofaiation. Grants and Gifts ARTS ANII Discovery Place, Charlotte, $65,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight and $50,000 over two years from Duke Power Company for the museum's new Education and Parking Complex. CdilMUiliTT IIEYil0PMENT Chapel Hill Service League awarded 11 community grants totaling $10,500 to: The ARC, for summer internships; The ArtsCenter, for an after-school rope-jumping workshop; InterFaith Council, for an employment project involving residents of Community House; McDougle Middle School, tor its Together We Will Win program; Midway Development Corporation, tor home-budget workbooks and instruction; OCIM, for emergency packs for children; Orange-Durham Coalition for Battered Women, for facilitator training and mate rials; Orange County Literacy Council, for a reading program for adult mentors; Pine Knolls Development Corporation, for a down payment and closing costs; Planned Parenthood, for HIV-testing lab fees; Volunteers tor Youth, for after-school discus sion groups. Uplift, Inc., Greensboro, $30,000 from the Z. Smith Reynolds and $10,000 from the Cemala Foundation to help fund new community-building initia tives in Guilford County. Appalachian State University, Boone, $125,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a research project in the Department of Geography and Planning, titled "Global Change in Local Places;" $14,855 worth of soft ware from Microsoft Corporation for the University's Reich College of Education; $91,263 from the National Science Foundation toward the chemistry depart ment's purchase of a magnetic resonance spectrometer; $35,000 from the Truman Capote Literary Trust to establish the Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing. Barton College, Wilson, $1,650,000 from K.D. Kennedy Jr. for the college's five-year campaign, which began in 1992: $500,000 for an endowed chair for the School of Business, $150,000 for the Sara Lynn Kennedy Recording Studio, and $1 million for a new recre ation and intramural center. Also, the College received $50,000 for the recreation cen ter from the Rotary Club of Greater Wilson. Catawba College, Salisbury, $2,500 from SOMAR, Inc. for its Adopt-a-Scholar Program. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Education Foundation reports the following gifts: $10,000 from the Honorable Alex McMillan for school-board train ing; $30,000 from the BellSouth Foundation for a school-gover nance project and school-board training; and, for general pro gram support, $10,000 over three years from the Ruddick Corporation, $10,000 over three years from Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore, LLI^ $15,000 over three years from the Sabates Foundation, $22,500 over three years from the Blumenthal Foundation, $30,000 over three years from Harper Companies International, and $45,OO0 over three years from the Royal Insurance Foundation. Duke University, Durham, $1 million from N.C. Commerce Secretary Dave Phillips and his family to establish the S. Davis Phillips Family Distinguished Lectureship to bring national and international leaders from busi ness, government and public life to the campus; $2.2 million from the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes for Health, to support the Medical Center's search for a gene that triggers macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in older Americans. Greensboro College, $50,000 from the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, Inc., for 1996-97 scholarships for women residents of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Guilford College, Greensboro, has met the terms of the George I. Alden Trust three-for-one chal lenge grant issued in August 1995, raising more than $270,000 for endowed student scholarships. The college need ed to raise at least $250,000 by March 1997 to earn $75,000 from the Alden Trust. Also, Guilford received $50,000 from Mary Priscilla Alexander and Tanya Alexander to establish the Dr. Malcolm U. Alexander Scholarship Fund for female stu dents majoring in education studies. High Point University's Founders Campaign, $25,000 from The Dicbon Foundation, Inc., bringing the University's Charlotte Regional Campaign to $21.7 million toward its $41- million goal. Also, $147,000 In stocks from Charles C. Edwards Jr. of High Point to establish the Alice Stokes Edwards Scholarship in honor of his late mother; the scholarship is for women study ing in the Earl N. Phillips School of Business. Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, $10,000 from former College librarians Aileen and Mabel Aderholdt to establish The Aileen and Mabel Aderholdt Endowment Fund for the Carl A. Rudisill Library's book collection. Also, professor emeritus Walter Nau donated his entire personal library, which includes some 8,200 titles, to the College. Meredith College, Raleigh, $15,000 from Virginia Lancaster Robertson of Rocky Mount toward the $25,000 Virginia Robertson First Family Scholarship. This is the second scholarship Robertson has given to Meredith. Microsoft Corporation software donations: United Negro College Fund: Barber-Scotia College, Concord, $333,315; Bennett College, Greensboro, $276,675; Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, $334,875; Livingstone College, Salisbury, $456,475; Saint Augustine's College, Raleigh, $334,875; Shaw University, Raleigh, $304,475. North Carolina Independent Colleges: Barton, $64,494; Belmont, $91,031; Brevard, $132,294; Campbell, $132,294; Catawba, $132,294; Chowan, $41,310; Elon, $132,294; Gardner- Webb, $132,294; Greensboro, $132,294; Guilford, $111,841,• High Point, 4132,294; Lees- McRae, $109,894; Lenoir- Rhyne, $132,294; Louisburg, $132,294; Mars Hill, $132,294; Meredith, $132,294; Methodist, $132,294; Montreat, $64,494; Mount Olive, $64,494; NC Wesleyan, $$132,194; Peace, $132,294; Pfeiffer, $131,096; Queens, $132,294; St. Andrews, $132,294; St. Mary's^ $132,294; Salem, $72,642; Warren Wilson, $113,547; Wingate, $25,791. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $100,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for research on newspapers in transition; $1 mil lion from the Glaxo Wellcome Foundation to the School of Pharmacy to create a Program of Excellence in Pharmaceutical Care; $70,000 to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication from Reese Felts to establish the Reese Felts Fund endowing an annual scholarship for an undergraduate in the school's electronic communica tion sequence and two $250 awards to high school students for the annual N.C. Scholastic Media Association conference, sponsored by the school each summer; $150,000 pledge from W. Trent Ragland Jr. for the North Carolina Collection; $2 million to Kenan-Flagler Business School from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust for an executive education center, bringing the Trust's total support for the center to $10 million. Winston-Salem State University Foundation, $25,000 from Clark S. Brown Sr., a portion toward establishing an endowed chair, the Dr. Wilveria B. Atkinson Chair in Life Science, and the remainder unrestricted. fmmmm The Burroughs Wellcome Fund awarded $6 million in special anniversary grants to support leading scientific and academic organizations in enhancing or expanding research, training, and education programs. Among the recipients of the $1 million grants payable over two years is the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, which will use the grant to establish an Educational Future Center. The Winston-Salem Foundation Committee approved the following grants in December: $35,000 to Alzheimer's Association/Piedmont Triad N.C. Chapter to fund a full-time Director of Development; Look for GRANTS, page 19
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