NC Giving News: In Brief

Hyde Family Foundations awarded $2M to College of Arts and Sciences at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to enlarge honors program.

Wayne Wingate, owner of Durango Bagel of Rock Hill, S.C. celebrating birthday Aug. 4 by donating half of day's proceeds to United Way of York County.

High Point University donated furniture from Wilson Hall to Salvation Army of High Point.

Allied Veterans of the World awarded $100,000 to Veteran's Administration hospitals in N.C.

RBC Bank awarded $20,000 to Raleigh's Artspace to support operations and educational programming.

Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust awarded $275,000 to Interact to train counselors for clients with mental-health and substance-abuse problems.

Triangle Community Foundation awarded total of nearly $275,000 to 20 nonprofits for Spring 2008.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded three-year $1.3M grant to Innovation Institute at Charlotte's McColl Center for Visual Art.

Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust of Winston-Salem awarded $100,000 to Wake Health Services to employ electronic recordkeeping.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded three- year, $1.13 million grant to Innovation Institute at McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, to support expansion of Institute.

 

Progress Energy, BB&T to sponsor Easter Seals UCP North Carolina’s Ride Without Limits with combined $15,000 gift.

Continuous Blessings Foundation, Raleigh, pledged $50,000 to Zebulon Boys & Girls Club.

Triad Health Project, Greensboro, received $25,000 from M.A.C. AIDS Fund, New York City, to support Direct Client Services program.

BB&T awarded DHIC, Inc., Raleigh, $2,500 for homebuyer education, counseling programs.

North Carolina Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust, Chapel-Hill, gave $334,000 to support creative writing program at UNC-Chapel Hill.