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FALL 1997 DISCRETIONARY GRANTS Meals on Wheels of Durham $8,409 To assist more people who are living alone and are homebound due to a physical disability, chronic illness, or malnourishment by expanding this program to serve low - income Durham residents who are under 60 years old. George and Isabel Fowler Fund: Robert and Christine Maehemer Fund; and Oualex Fund Methodist Home for hildren $10,000 To assist young male adolescents who are abusing drugs in understanding the causes behind their substance abuse, expand their vocational potential, and improve their family relations ley establishing a group home in Durham, which will provide direct treatment as well as additional counseling in collaboration with the Durham Center and Duke University. American Airlines Kids Are Something Special Fund and Phoenix Fund New Bethel Baptist Church $10,000 To increase the gradpation rate and the academic performance of youth, grades K -12, living ih the Crest Street Community in Durham by expanding a tutorial and mentoring program in math and reading. American Airlines Kids Are Something Special Fund, Qualex Fund, Kristen Fund; and Halcyon Fund North Carolina Rural Communities Assistance Project $15,000 To improve the public health conditions of rural, low- income, mostly minority residents of Chatham County by increasing their access to clean water and safe sewage disposal with the assistance of an agency outreach provider. Michael Warner and Elizabet4 Craven Fund Piedmont Youth Orc estra $1,035 To enhance the music ikifls and opportunities for middle school children by forming a Wind Ensemble for woodwind and brass players that will join the intermediate orchestra in a performance.Kathryn "Kay" Segee Memorial Fund Prison Match $15,OOQ To improve communication and family bonding between women incarcerated at the North Carolina Correctional Institute and their children by providing transportation and other necessary services to children living in Wake, Durham, Orange, and Chatham counties, providing opportunities for families to interact with one another on a regular basis. American Airlines Kids Are Something Special Fund and Phoenix Fund Triangle AIDS Collakorative $40,000 To offer diverse sgrvices and more efficient management to local AIDS sufferers aqd their families by supporting the Triangle AIDS Organizati n's Strategic Workgroup, which will consolidate the S Service Agency of Orange County, the Triangle AIDS I 'terfaith Network, and the AIDS Service Agency of Wakeounty. Magnolia Fund Triangle AIDS Inter aith Network $6,000 To reduce the HIV i fection rate and increase awareness of HIV /AIDS resources and servic in the Triangle by providing education to faith communities that then coordinate care teams to provide services for persons living with q1V /AIDS and their families. Magnolia Fund Triangle Rails to Trails Conservancy $5,000 7 of 14 8/16/99 7:19 PM