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FALL 1997 DISCRETIONARY GRANTS <br />Grants <br />SPRING 1999 <br />African American Cultural Complex $20,000 <br />To educate the community on African American history and <br />culture through the complex's wide -range of exhibits and an <br />upcoming outdoor drama, The Amistad Saga: Reflections <br />Glaxo Wellcome Endowment Fund, Irene Rand Poole Endowment Fund <br />Regional Community Endowment Fund Barrie Wallace Fund for the Arts, <br />Faith and Arnold Shertz Fund Jefferson Fund Moffitt Triangle Fund <br />Josephus Daniels Charitable Fund, Quintiles Gives Back Fund <br />— Club Nova $15,000 <br />To address the needs pf Orange and northern Chatham county residents <br />living with mental ill ess by hiring additional staff to help club members <br />secure adequate heath care and housing and provide job training and <br />employment opportunities. <br />George and Beverly 41itchings Endowment Fund, George Watts Hill, Thomas S <br />Kenan III Endowment, Donna Cederberg Memorial Endowment, Fair Fund <br />Claude and Eleanor f eorge Fund <br />Communities in Schgols of Durham $12,000 <br />To increase parent volvement, parent- teacher dialogue, and student success <br />through the creatioiof a comprehensive family resource center at W.G. <br />Pearson Elementary Pchool in partnership with the Durham Public School <br />System and New Dad Community Services. <br />Bobbie Fletcher Fu Regional Community Endowment Fund, Elizabeth <br />Wade Grant Endow nt Fund Jeanette A. Gates Fund James E. and <br />Margaret R Davis 1 �dawment Fund Willie S and Bruce A. Hill, Sr. Fund <br />Quintiles Gives Back Fund, Horton -Carr Fund <br />Communities in Schopls of Wake County $9,655 <br />To improve the literafy of 160 students in Wake County elementary schools <br />by expanding the Grf at Leaps Reading Program, which provides individual <br />tutors to work with 0 ildren reading below grade level. <br />American Airlines Kills Are Something Special Fund <br />Durham P.R.O.U.D. 13,000 <br />To offer conflict management, self- esteem building, community awareness <br />and involvement, anal communication skills to juvenile offenders in a <br />school -based setting, <br />Bobbie Fletcher Fund Willie S and Brice A. Hill, The Kristen Fund Ed S <br />and Mary Hayes HolfM Fund <br />Durham Teen Court end Restitution Program $13,086 <br />To eliminate substanfe abuse and repeat arrests among juvenile offenders by <br />involving them in community service at TROSA (Triangle Residential <br />Options for Substanle Abusers) and offering them additional workshops and <br />information on posigve community resources. <br />Michael Warner and Elizabeth Craven Fund <br />Edgemont Communi Center $9,850 <br />To enhance academitperformance, self-esteem, and decision - making skills <br />1 of 14 8/16/99 7:19 PM <br />