March 10, 2010


Raleigh opera companies to merge

North Carolina Opera In an effort to save money, improve fundraising and better serve the market, Raleigh’s two opera companies have agreed to join forces to become the North Carolina Opera.

Giving and Community

Youth philanthropy: A little can yield a lot

Across North Carolina, youth philanthropists are ‘paying it forward’ by using their unique insights to change their neighborhoods, schools and communities for the better.

NC Foundations

Funders team up for cancer research

Eight philanthropic groups are giving $5.7 million to support clinical trials by the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Center at Levine Children’s Hospital.


NC Giving News: In Brief

  • High Point University received $1 million from BB&T Foundation, Winston-Salem, for its entrepreneurship program.
  • Boys & Girls Clubs serving Wake County getting $44,000 from CARQUEST Auto Parts to support staffing and staff development at Brentwood Boys & Girls Club.
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $458,316 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to fund AgrAbility Virginia Project, Easter Seals UCP, Raleigh.
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NC Nonprofit News: In Brief

  • Jon S. Abramson, professor and chair of pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, appointed to three-year term, executive council, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.
  • 2009 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County CROP Walk, held October 2009 in three locations, raised over $80,000 to fight hunger, ninth-highest CROP Walk total in U.S. and fourth-highest in Southeast.
  • Charmaine Fuller Cooper, executive director, Carolina Justice Policy Center, named first executive director, N.C. Justice for Victims of Sterilization Foundation.
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Opinion

Nonprofits need ‘relational-contracting’

A contracting system that both improves services and maintains accountability through partnership and accommodation will require a significant shift in attitudes and policy.



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