February 5, 2012
Modest recovery forecast for giving
Charitable giving will grow slightly this year but charities still will need to work to raise more money, an economist told Triangle-area fundraisers.
- Arts & Science Council, Charlotte, set $8.7 million goal for annual fund drive, up from last year’s total of $8.3 million; Bob James, vice chairman, board of directors, Fifth Third Bank, chairs campaign; and more.February 2, 2012
- Urban Ministries of Durham will receive $50,000 challenge grant from Stewards Fund, Raleigh, if it can raise $50,000 from first-time donors or any increased gift from current donors by May 31; and more.February 2, 2012
- North Carolina is home to 23 accredited children’s advocacy centers that serve 74 of the state’s 100 counties, with 11 other counties developing centers, including nine that already are providing services.February 1, 2012
- N.C. Rural Center, Raleigh, launched “New Generation Initiative” that will provide $3.6 million in resources to engage rural youth and young adults in the life of their communities; and more.January 31, 2012
- Clarenda Stanley, former major-gifts officer, North Carolina Central University, Durham, named director of development and communications, Lucy Daniels Center, Cary; and more.January 31, 2012
- Bill Shore retiring as director of U.S. community partnerships at GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, effective Feb. 3, after 27 years with company; and more.January 26, 2012
- Durham Rescue Mission met $4.5 million goal for phase 1 of fundraising campaign to support new Center of Hope building; and more.January 26, 2012
- Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, a philanthropist who supported a broad range of causes with compassion, kindness and devotion, and who bridged the era from just after World War I with the Internet age, died Jan. 25 at age 91.January 26, 2012
- Nonprofit boards are the focus of leadership-development programs offered by the Guilford Nonprofit Consortium and United Way of Greater High Point.January 26, 2012
- Greensboro philanthropist Joseph M. Bryan Jr. has given $1.5 million to Guilford College to boost an endowment or a lecture series he established with a $1 million gift in 1994.January 25, 2012
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