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FALL 1997 DISCRETIONARY GRANTS <br />Together, Learning Together, and Playspace in Wake County. Regional <br />Community Endowment Fund, • Barrie Wallace Fund for the Arts; Claude and <br />Adele Thomas Fund; American Airlines Kids Are Something Special Fund, <br />Quintiles Gives Back Fund; Moffitt Triangle Fund, and Michael and Cynthia <br />F rankers Fund <br />Burton Geo -World Elementary School $13,500 <br />To build on the reading skills of 168 Burton Geo -World and E.K. Powe elementary <br />students during the summer months by holding the Summer STARS Reading <br />Camp, which emphasises the importance of family and community involvement in <br />enhancing the literacy skills of young children. Michael Warner and Elizabeth <br />(.-raven Fund <br />Capital Area YMCA p0,000 <br />To provide more at -risk children with mentors by expanding the YMCA <br />PARTNERS program; which creates active partnerships between motivated adults <br />and troubled or alienated youths referred by Juvenile Court and the Wake County <br />School Svstem. Michael Warner and Elizabeth Craven Fund <br />Catholic Social Minigtries $15,000 <br />To acclimate new Latino residents to Wake County by providing a variety of <br />services such as crisis intervention, job placement, and assistance with obtaining <br />county resources through the outreach of several faith -based and community <br />organizations. Glaxo Wellcome Endowment Fund; Triangle Communitv <br />Foundation Endowment Fund, George Watts Hill Fund; Mitsubishi <br />Semiconductor America Inc. Community Ventures Fund; Irene Rand Poole <br />Endowment; Regional Community Endowment Fund; Willie B. and Bruce A. Hill, <br />Sr. Fund, and A Southern Season Community Service Fund <br />Chapel Hill- Carrborp YMCA $5,000 <br />To provide a safe recrFational and learning environment for 25 low- income <br />minority children who are residents of the South Estes Public Housing community <br />in Chapel Hill by providing after- school supervision at the South Estes Community <br />Center. Michael Warner and Elizabeth Craven Fund <br />Cornucopia House C ricer Support Center $2,525 <br />To help cancer patientspand their families deal with the emotional and spiritual toll <br />that cancer brings into their daily lives by offering free support groups, educational <br />forums, and holistic thgrapies.George and Beverly Hitchings Endowment Fund; <br />11age Companies Foundation Endowment; Donna Cederberg Memorial <br />Endowment Find, Quintiles Gives Back Fund, • and Francis J. Grolimund and <br />Joseph Costa Fund <br />Crafts of Hope $11,000 <br />To expand Crafts of Hope's ability to provide job and managerial skills and <br />entrepreneurial opportpnities to jobless people through the hands -on production of <br />candles by doubling th amount of participants in this program and funding <br />research and developrr�ent of a new line of candles. Michael Warner and Elizabeth <br />Craven Fund <br />Durham Affordable ousing Coalition $7,000 <br />To assist more people living with HIV /AIDS find housing, secure utilities, access <br />housing funds, and w k with landlords in Durham, Orange, Chatham, and Franklin <br />counties by expandin a part-time Housing Counselor position to full -time. <br />Magnolia Fund <br />Durham Family Presprvation & Support Committee $15,000 <br />To nurture the development of healthy and stable families in Northeast Central <br />5 of 14 8/16199 7:19 PM <br />