By Krystin Gollihue In 2011, DoSomething.org was texting about 3 million users a week, inviting young people from all over the country to get involved with a campaign or political action that they were passionate about. Young people were responding to issues of social...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Abigail Durham and Kyle Leidheiser As a land-grant university, NC State is committed to providing students hands-on, highly-engaged learning opportunities AND to providing research that is of direct, practical use to the fields...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Katherine Messier, NACEPF and Kristen Perry, Voqal The digital divide runs wide and deep in the U.S., where 34 million people still lack internet access. The internet is not only the way we connect with our family and friends –...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Karen Kincaid Dunn “With Club Nova as a part of my life, I have not needed hospitalization for 12 years. I no longer feel caught in a raging storm of being cast out or apart from, but a part of something greater than...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS, BA Director of Development and Evaluation, Turnaround Life, Inc. Many nonprofit organizations want to grow their mission-centered services and ability to serve individuals and families in need. Yet,...
News about grants, gifts The North Carolina Humanities Council awarded $120,000 in grants to NC cultural organizations, including $20,000 to North Carolina State University's "The Virtual Martin Luther King Project." The Triangle Community Foundation granted...
News about grants, gifts SONIC Drive-In completed its ninth annual Limeades for Learning fall voting campaign on October 22nd, and the campaign funded $1 million to 1,936 public school teacher projects over the four-week period. Thanks to a combination of...
News about grants, gifts The Honda Canada Foundation will donate $750,000 in support of the Matthews House capital campaign, as it expands its services to families in South Simcoe. This commitment will directly support the construction of a new state-of-the-art...
The NC Grants Roundup can be a helpful tool when researching grant opportunities for your organization. For more tips read Becoming a “Grant Detective”: Best Practices for Grantseekers by Sarah Mann Willcox of the NC Network for Grantmakers. News...
News about grants, gifts TABLE and The Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina formed a new partnership through which the Food Bank is donating $20,000 worth of food to support TABLE’s Weekend Meal Backpack Program. The North Carolina Humanities...
