Easter Seals UCP to participate in Ticket to Work

Meals on Wheels of Wake County raised over $90,000 at Fat Tuesday benefit, co-chaired by W. Landon Watts, wealth strategist, Banyan Rock & Talent.

Greensboro Historical Museum Shop to reopen March 27.

Community Investment Corporation of the Carolinas partnering with Eastern Band of the Cherokee, N.C. Housing Finance Agency and Fred Mills of United Equities on 60-unit workforce housing apartment community on the reservation.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, and Wake Forest University, playing key role in new study on whether structured physical activity can prevent or delay major mobility disabilities in older adults, with funding expected to total over $60 million from the National Institute on Aging, including $29.5 million in federal stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Wake County Community Foundation named five new board  members -- Amy White, director of development, Communities of Hope Ministries, Garner; Howard Wasserman, president, Smart Performance Indicators; Chuck Riesebeck, president, Hour Consultancy Group; Tina Bell, account executive, Technisource; and Monika von Windheim.

School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, creating Knight Chair in Digital Advertising, funded by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Second annual St. Patty's Run Green 8K drew over 1,300 participants March 7, up 50 percent from 2009, and generated $12,000 in donations to National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Eastern North Carolina. 

Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities, Raleigh, raised $192,000 and attracted 1,200 guests at 25th annual A Toast to the Triangle on March 7

Mary Anson Horowitz, former associate attorney, Gabriela J. Matthews & Associates, Durham, named director, North Carolina Lawyers Entrepreneurs Assistance Program, or NC LEAP, N.C. Bar Center, Cary.

NC Prevention Partners, with support from Pfizer, launched three-year employer wellness partnership with Greensboro Chamber of Commerce.

Donny C. Lambeth, president, North Carolina Baptist Hospital of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, appointed to board of trustees, North Carolina Hospital Association.

Coming Out -- Coming In: Faith, Identity and Belonging, 30-minute documentary developed by four members of 2003-05 class, William C. Friday Fellows, Wildacres Leadership Initiative, received Regional Emmy, best topical documentary, from Midsouth Chapter, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Brad Worley, president, Worley Reporting, joined board of directors, DHIC, Raleigh. 

IntraHealth International, Chapel Hill, opened its first permanently-staffed office in Washington, D.C., housing senior leaders of CapacityPlus, project addressing health-workforce crisis, plus new global policy division

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.