Recent CGP Grantees

NC Conservation Network

Triangle Community Foundation’s most recent Community Grantmaking Program grantees are listed below.  Stories of impact from past grantees can be found on the TCF YouTube Channel.

Fall 2011 Community Grantmaking Program Grantees

Youth Leadership & Development

CORRAL Riding Academy ($14,400)- CORRAL 2011/2012 Participation: Funding will be used to provide fifteen community-referred, at-risk girls with an opportunity to work with horses and CORRAL staff in a structured program designed to facilitate personal growth and leadership development.

Genesis Home ($12,800) - Enrichment Programs for Genesis Home Children: Grant support will enable the children living at Genesis Home to participate in three educational programs weekly including tutoring four days a week, an incentivized reading program in a fully stocked on-site library, and a weekly structured enrichment program. 

Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County/El Vinculo Hispano ($15,000) - For A Strong Tomorrow (F.A.S.T.) Project: Part of the Youth Leadership Development and Gang Intervention /Prevention Program: The F.A.S.T. Project will serve 40 at-risk Latino youth, ages 10 to 14 from middle schools; offering programs that encourage students to stay in school, offer positive alternatives to gang membership, and develop skills and knowledge needed to grow into successful, civically engaged young adults. 

Justice Theater Project  ($9,400) - JTP Summer Theater Camp: Justice Theater Project will offer a full-day youth summer theater camp at the Raleigh Safety and Community Club in partnership with Passage Home, Inc. in southeast Raleigh.  Grant support will allow JTP to provide a full scholarship for 100% of the attending campers who come from economically-disadvantaged families.

KidZNotes ($15,000) - El Sistema-inspired Children’s Orchestra in East Durham: Support will be used to provide one year of instrumental instruction (10 hours per week) and leadership training for 100 elementary school students who qualify for free and reduced lunch at four Durham Title-1 schools. 

Nessie Foundation ($15,000) - 2012 Outdoor Activity Clubs & Summer Transportation & Club Fees: The Nessie Foundation will provide summer camp registration costs and transportation to and from the Raleigh Boys and Girls Clubs and will facilitate twice weekly after-school outdoor activity programs for children living in the Parrish Manor community in Raleigh. 
Read and Feed ($14,400) - Feed the Reader Road Show: Funding will be used to expand the program’s service by adding 8 mobile classroom sites that travel in Wake County neighborhoods weekly; allowing the program to reach 200 more children on an annual basis.

Civic Engagement

Equality NC Foundation  ($15,000) - “Know + Love” Online Storytelling Campaign: Funding will be used to create a six-month online storytelling campaign designed to harness and share multimedia stories from Triangle people as key difference-makers in motivating others to support LGBT equality.
Family Violence and Rape Crisis Services ($15,000) - The Coalition for Family Peace:  Grant support will fund the Coalition for Family Peace, the coordinated community response which promotes communication and collaboration, working to improve Chatham County’s response to domestic and sexual violence. 

NC AIDS Action Network ($12,000) - Positive Voices for Health Care: The Positive Voices for Health Care program will educate and engage residents of the Triangle through advocacy programs promoting improving access to health care for people living with HIV/AIDS, their loved ones, and people at disproportionally high risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS in NC.

NC Conservation Network ($9,000) - The Get Active Project: NC Conservation Network seeks to influence public policy by growing and activating a Public Alert network and building a circle of well-connected business supporters to weigh in on key decisions which, when activated, will help to win protections for the environment. 

People of Faith Against the Death Penalty ($15,000) -Triangle Grassroots Mobilization to Repeal the Death Penalty: Grant support will be used to launch a grassroots campaign in the Triangle to repeal the death penalty in North Carolina.

Southern Coalition for Social Justice ($15,000) - Ban the Box: Stop Hiring Discrimination through Collaborative Civic Engagement: Southern Coalition for Social Justice will engage those most affected by discriminative employment practices due to prior convictions and incarceration and build support to “Ban the Box” in local governments and businesses.

WakeUP Wake County ($15,000 )- Education Campaign for Regional Public Transit: WakeUP Wake County will lead a public education campaign promoting regional transit in the Triangle, as a precursor to transit funding referenda in Wake and Orange Counties in 2012.