NewBridge Bank gives $13,374

Annual fund contributions at Davidson College totaled nearly $10.78 million in 2009-10 fiscal year, exceeding $9.25 million goal, with 10,055 of 16,497 active alumni giving, or 61 percent, highest of any college or university in U.S. for the year.

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Triangle Community Foundation increasing budget cap for its community grantmaking program to $1.5 million  from $750,000; announced over $207,000 to be divided among 16 nonprofits chosen.

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Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Forsyth County received $36,000 from Chase Card Service, $40,000 from The Winston-Salem Foundation through the Bess Gray Plumly Fund and the Kerr and Naomi Pinnix Discretionary Fund, and $10,000 from The Bank of America Charitable Foundation.

John Rex Endowment awarded over $1.8 million in new grant projects focusing on encouraging healthy eating, physical activity, and community-wide solutions to combat childhood obesity.

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Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation gave $20,000 grant to International House, Charlotte, to help launch youth English tutoring program.

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Lexington Memorial Hospital donating outdated computers, printers, monitors and computer peripherals to Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina, which will clean sellable computers of data, load with Microsoft OS and Office, and sell in Lexington Goodwill store; unsellable equipment will be sold to environmentally responsible recyclers.

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United Way of Cumberland awarded $200,000 to recipients in Fayetteville community from Youth Stock Growth Trust, established in 1992 by anonymous donor.

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Winston-Salem Foundation awarded 17 diverse community grants totaling $330,095 to groups serving Forsyth County.

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Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, Winston-Salem, awarded total of $150,000 to 11 small organizations for capacity-building efforts throughout North Carolina, and total of over $1.5 million to bring substance-abuse and primary-health-care providers together.

John Rex Endowment, Raleigh, awarded capacity-building grants, totaling $186,568, to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Learning Together, Alliance of Disability Advocates, Community Partnerships, Interact, Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood, SAFEchild, and Wake Teen Medical Services.

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The Boys & Girls Clubs of Wake County received $40,000 from Continuous Blessings Foundation, to be used for Zebulon Boys & Girls Club.

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Conservation Trust for North Carolina received one-year, $50,000 grant from Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to help speed land and water protection across state by supporting, promoting and representing state's 23 local land trusts and protecting more land along Blue Ridge Parkway.

 

Pennsylvania-based Kennametal Foundation donated $40,000 to UNC Asheville, benefiting programs and equipment in Zeis Hall; university named chemistry lobby, on lower level of building, in honor of Kennametal Inc.

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Harris Teeter Together in Education distributed nearly $1.4 million during the 2009-10 school year to participating schools, raising total earned by schools since 1998 to $14.1 million.

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North Carolina Opera, Raleigh, received gift of $60,000 from Progress Energy Foundation.

DHIC, Raleigh,  awarded $475,000 grant from NeighborWorks America; will use funds for  $1 million renovation of Murphey School, featuring 52 affordable apartments for seniors; City of Raleigh committed $480,000 grant to project.

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Carolina Panthers donating 175 televisions and eight touch-screen kiosks valued at over $10,000 to Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont that were used throughout Bank of America Stadium and by team's coaching staff.

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United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro investing total of $530,000 in cultural partner grants in 21 arts programs.

John Avery Boys & Girls Club of Durham received $35,000 donation from Wal-Mart to help fund Triple Play, main nutrition and physical education provided for all children at the Club.

Balfour Beatty Construction pledged three-year commitment to Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina to support chapter's mission of granting wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions.

Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance, in partnership with Diabetes Management Solutions, will establish diabetes self-management class series at six southeastern North Carolina hospitals with $167,634 grant from The Duke Endowment. 

Urban Ministries of Durham getting new mattresses for community shelter, thanks to $10,000 grant from GlaxoSmithKline and $2,000 from Duke University Health Systems. 

Autism Society of North Carolina received grant from The Cemala Foundation to fund full scholarships for five Guilford County children at Summer Camp Program at Camp Royall.

Kangaroo Express, Cary, donated $200,000 Victory Junction Camp, Randleman. 

N.C. Rural Economic Development Center awarded 20 grants totaling $4.3 million to create 357 jobs and address clean-water need, assisting communities in 17 rural counties.

Joe Arrington sold 64-acre parcel of land and donated additional 46 acres, called Richland Creek Headwaters Tract, to Conservation Trust for N.C., which will convey land to National Park Service to be included in Blue Ridge Parkway.

Kangaroo Express donated $200,000 raised through in-store donation drive to Victory Junction Gang Camp, Randleman, which serves children with chronic medical conditions.

Action for Children North Carolina received $75,000 grant from Public Welfare Foundation, Washington, D.C., to advocate for changing age of juvenile court jurisdiction in North Carolina to 18 from 16.