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From the Community

From just a vision and a few thousand dollars, Triangle Community Foundation has grown in its grantmaking, its importance for our communities and its assets. We take great satisfaction in having been associated with the Foundation from its earliest days. We also take great pride in our association with the Foundation’s truly outstanding staff, dedicated women and men who bring talent, professionalism, creativity and humor to their work for the benefit of fundholders and the community. Thanks to each of them and congratulations.
Keep up the great work!

-- Arthur and Mary Clark
25th Anniversary Sponsorship Message

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The Region We Serve

Triangle Community Foundation is centrally situated to the entire “Triangle”—a metropolitan area in the North Carolina’s Piedmont region. The Triangle is a network of communities encompassing four mid-sized cities, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary and the smaller towns and rural communities within. The Foundation is located in Durham’s American Tobacco Campus, a registered and beautifully renovated historic site in the American Tobacco Factory established in the 1800s.

The area was initially named for the triangle formed by the region’s three major research universities: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State University. Research Triangle Park (RTP), the largest and longest continually operating research park in the United States, lies at the center of the Triangle, set in 7,000 acres of North Carolina pinelands.

The region consistently ranks as one of the best places to live, work and do business in the nation. But how does the Triangle rank in terms of giving? A November 2008 study conducted by The Program on Public Life, part of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South, explored this question and came up with these key findings:

The Research Triangle area has grown into a distinctive metropolitan region.

There are now as many people who were born outside the state as there are native North Carolinians.

We have shifted from a bi-racial to a multi-ethnic society.

The region’s diverse economic base has few big businesses, but many small and moderate sized entrepreneurial and high-tech ventures.

Because of Duke, NC State and UNC, our area receives significant contributions from national philanthropies.

Compared with peer metropolitan regions, the Triangle has a rather shallow base of foundations and philanthropic assets.

For additional information on life and business in the Triangle, please visit the following Web sites:

Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
Greater Raleigh Visitors and Convention Bureau
Durham Chamber of Commerce
Durham Visitors and Convention Bureau
Chapel Hill/Carrboro Chamber of Commerce
Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
Chatham County Web site
City of Pittsboro