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To increase recreational opportunities and beautify the Triangle area by <br />transforming an abandoned rail corridor into a series of managed trails for walking, <br />running, bicycling, and equestrian use that will traverse Durham, Chatham, and <br />Wake counties. Josepints Daniels Charitable Fund <br />�= Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA) $15,000 <br />To increase the amount of people participating in this long -term residential <br />substance program by hiring a staff member to oversee the renovation of <br />three buildings that will house additional residents. Central Carolina Bank & <br />Trust Company Unrestricted Endowment, Bobbie Fletcher Fund, Peoples <br />.Security Insurance Endowment Fund, Elizabeth Wade Grant Endowment <br />Fund, Optimist Club 'of Durham Fund Rickenbacker Fund; and Katherine and <br />Frank Woodman Megsorial Fund <br />Wake Education Partnership $4,000 <br />To increase kn ow led a of the arts among schoolchildren by supporting the <br />Heroes in Art Proje of the Newspapers in Education Program, a cooperative <br />effort between the N�ws & Observer and area art museums that will produce a <br />16 -page educational Insert to be distributed to more than 3,000 teachers <br />Triangle -wide for classroom use. American Airlines Kids Are Something <br />Special Fund <br />Wake Forest Cultura Arts Association $4,500 <br />To commemorate an preserve the historic heritage of the DuBois School in <br />Wake Forest, which perved the African - American community from 1926 to <br />1970, by sponsoring 1l series of arts and cultural programs involving students <br />at the Wake Forest- Ikolesville High School that will culminate in a <br />community-wide celfbration. Michael Warner and Elizabeth Craven Fund <br />Wake Interfaith Hos itality Network $7,500 <br />To help this agency double the amount of homeless families it serves in Wake <br />County by hiring a volunteer coordinator tp manage the increasing number <br />of volunteers and chprches participating in the Alliance. Glaxo Wellcome <br />Endowment Fund T�omas S Kenan, III Endowment Fund; Willie R and <br />Bruce A. Hill, Sr. Fupd Ajinomoto USA., Inc Fund and George and Isabel <br />Fowler Fund <br />SPRING 1998 <br />A total of $247,17796 was given out to 24 agencies. <br />Agricultural Resources Center $8,000 <br />To reduce exposure tp pesticides in the Triangle area by promoting the <br />PESTicide Educatioq Project, which helps citizens evaluate their risk, offers <br />safer alternatives to chemical pesticides, and provides a voice on pest control <br />issues. Central Carolira Bank & Trust Company Unrestricted Endowment, <br />Glaxo Wellcome Endowment Fund, George and Beverly Hitchings Endowment <br />Fund Petersen/You jg Fund Regional Community Endowment Fund and <br />Triangle Community Foundation Endowment Fund <br />��- Casa Multicultural $10,000 <br />To train and organ" the residents of eight Hispanic neighborhoods in <br />Orange County in otjJer to successfully address such issues as accessibility to <br />medical care, Witerafy, drug abuse, and gang violence-fefJ'erson Fund <br />Quintiles Gives Back Fund, Regional Community Endowment Fund and <br />Claude and Adele Thgmas Fund <br />8 of 14 8/16/99 7:19 PM <br />