February 1998
Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina
Preservation
Continued from page 3
The fund, established in 1975,
acquires property to sell to buyers
who are willing to abide by preserva
tion covenants. Since its inception,
the fund has been involved in the
acquisition and resale of nearly 300
properties for a pre-renovation value
of $12.5 million. An estimated addi
tional $80 million has been invested
by the subsequent owners.
The study also says preservation
in North Carolina has been boosted
by federal tax incentives tor the reha
bilitation of income-producing his
toric structures, which have been in
place since 1976.
Under this program, administered
by the State Historic Preservation
Office, 732 private-sector, income
generating projects have been under
taken with nearly $325 million in pri
vate investment.
Team TECH
Continued from page 8
After a roclQ^ start, with problems
fulfilling some of the requests on non-
profits’ wish lists, Crockett says the
group plans to revamp its 1998 pro
gram to focus on training. Rather than
grant recipients being able to specify
the technology equipment they need,
nonprofits participating in training will
be given a checWist of products from
vviuch to choose.
“Hopefully, this way, we’ll be able to
affect many more nonprofits,” Crockett
says.
When Team Tech in Los Angeles
began its project in August, says vol
unteer Randy Lundgren, team mem
bers had to spend some time orienting
themselves to the area 'Three of the
four team members relocated from out
of state, so the first thing they did was
survey Los Angeles nonprofits to find
out what their needs were.
“Because we felt we didn’t have
enou^ resources to bring agencies
from the ground up,” says Lundgren,
“we looked for nonprofits that aln^y
had some vision and a base for tech
nology, ones that had modest needs
that we could service.”
In addition to IBM’s contributions,
'Team Tech members have solicited in-
kind donations from Microsoft and
CompUSA computer stores.
While 'Team 'Techs in the 'Trian^e
and Los Angeles strug^ed to build a
program from the ground up. Team
'Tech in Detroit had the advantage of
working with an existing United Way
technology initiative.
Dan McDougall, director of the
Southeastern Michigan Information
Center, says that when the Team 'Tech
project was formed, it gave the center
the foot soldiers it so badly needed.
Detroit’s 'Team 'Tech is helping 40
organizations assess their technology
needs and create technology plans.
One of the nonprofits working with
the team is the National Bone Marrow
'Transplant Link, which has two staff
members and an annual budget of
about $5,000.
“With such a small staff, having an
Internet presence would allow them to
provide information to many more peo
ple,” McDougall says. “We wanted to
really focus on those types on nonprof
its — with very small budgets and in
impoverished areas.”
McDougall says the biggest chal
lenge for the tour Detroit volunteers
was steering through the bureaucra
cies of the large organizations spon
soring the project while staying
focused on the team’s mission to uplift
the technological capacity of nonprof
its.
“It’s not easy when you’ve got four
people pouring their heart and soul
into a project, and they just want to get
things done,” he says. “It can be diffi
cult for the VIS'EA volunteers to main
tain their enthusiasm, and you don’t
want that spark to die away
“It has been a good learning expe
rience for all the volunteers.”
Some of these projects include the
$5 million renovation of Brightleaf
Square in Durham, the $2.3 million
renovation of the Austin Building in
Smithfield and dozens of smaller-
scale projects such as the Crystal
Place BuUding in Spruce Pine, City
Market in Raleigh and the Mast Earm
Inn in Watauga County.
'The study also outlines how some
of North Carolina’s bi^st industries
— tourism, crafts and movie-making
— are linked to historic preservation.
Among the findings:
• More than 15 milhon tourists
visit the state’s 200 historic sites each
year, and nonresident tourists say
that visiting a historic site is the main
reason they come to North Carolina.
• Craft-making and historic
preservation are interconnected and
mutually supportive, particularly in
the western part the state. 'The indus
try has a tot^ impact on the economy
of $122 million a year.
Retail stores, many of ’wdiich are
in historic buildings, account for
nearly $71 million a year in crafts
sales in the region, and the industry
provides $48 milhon a year in income
to more than 4,000 producers.
• Since 1980, the film industry,
primarily based in Wilmington, has
spent $4.6 bllhon making 360 feature
films in North Carolina.
Many of the state’s historic sites
are used as backdrops or to create
period sets, and nearly 85 percent of
the money spent by the film industry
can be attributed to the appeal of
those locational features.
Copies of the report, “Profiting
from the Past: 'The Impact of Historic
Preservation on the North Carolina
Economy,” may be ordered from
Preservation North Carolina. CaU
(919) 832-3652.
Food
Continued from page 8
'The Food Shuttle has raised more
than $100,000 for the project, mainly
from the Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation in Winston-Salem, the
'Triangle Community Foundation in
Research Triangle Park, the
Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund in
Greensboro, the Hillsdale Fund in
Greensboro and Christ Episcopal
Church in Raleigh.
Call Bullard or Lekoski at (919)
250-0043, or Nancy Dawkins, execu
tive director of the Shepherd’s 'Table
Soup Kitchen, at (919) 831-2010.
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