Doing Good in the Neighborhood Community Care Grant Awards Announced

Duke University’s Office of Durham and Regional Affairs announced the 2010 recipients of the Doing Good in the Neighborhood Community Care Grant Awards.

Fifteen non-profit organizations were selected to receive the grants; the maximum grant is $2,000.

• Child and Parent Support Services, for expansion of the Healthy Families program;
• Citizen Schools, to create vibrant, hands-on learning experiences for at-risk middle school students;
• Crayons2Calculators, for monthly school-supply giveaways for Durham Public Schools teachers;
• Durham Economic Resource Center, to fund outreach to Durham’s Latino community;
• Durham Literacy Center, for expansion of the Escuela de la Familia, a literacy program for Latino families in Durham;
• Durham Rescue Mission, to provide backpacks filled with school supplies to children at the group’s annual back-to-school party;
• Durham TRY, for the Living in Future Tense program to help teen dads and moms connect with each other in support of their children;
• Genesis Home, for an expansion of their after-school tutoring and mentoring program for school age children at the shelter for homeless families;
• i4m, for the Innovation for Motivation Scholarship program to provide intersession programming for low-income students at Chewning Middle School;
• New Horizons Academy of Excellence and The Reality Center, for a grant to integrate the two facilities to serve at-risk youth;
• SeeSaw Studio, for the expansion of their Youth Designer Mentoring Program;
• TROSA, for expansion of TROSA Grocery's product selection;
• Urban Ministries of Durham, for the Suds for the Shelter project, to purchase supplies for the community shelter's laundry room;
• Voices Together, for the expansion of the Little Voices program to support therapeutic choral groups for young children with developmental disabilities;
• YO: Durham, for expansion of the YO: Durham Parent Academy.