Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation for Greater Rocky Mount and Edgecombe Charitable Foundation awa

Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation for Greater Rocky Mount and Edgecombe Charitable Foundation award more than $90,000 in local grants

10/23/2018

The board of advisors of both the Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation for Greater Rocky Mount and the Edgecombe Charitable Foundation recently announced $90,980 in local grant awards from their respective community grantmaking funds, according to Sam Johnson, Futrell-Mauldin board president and Jane Thorne, ECF board president.

 

This year the Futrell-Mauldin board granted:

  • $500 to the Association for Learning Disabled and Handicapped for 2019 Summer School for Exceptional students

  • $540 to Baskerville Elementary School for the Running Club

  • $5,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Nash/Edgecombe Counties for the Formula for Impact - Greater Rocky Mount

  • $500 to the Buck Leonard Assoc. for Sports & Human Enrichment, Inc for the Growing-up STEAM-WiseYouth Excursion Project

  • $5,000 to the Down East Partnership for Children for sustaining the family resource center

  • $3,000 to My Sister's House for general operating support

  • $2,000 to PATCH, Inc. for Project HOPE

  • $10,000 to the Peacemakers Family Center (Church on the Rise) for the Freedom School

  • $750 to Special Olympics North Carolina for Special Olympics North Carolina - Nash County

  • $2,250 to the STEP Strategic Twin-Counties Education Partnership for the #workHERE program

  • $2,000 to Teach For America - Eastern North Carolina for supporting leaders for education in Rocky Mount

  • $3,000 to the REACH Center for the SOAR (Striving On A Regular) program

  • $2,000 to the Wright's Center, Inc. for general operating support

  • $3,000 to TROSA (Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, Inc.) for residential substance abuse recovery services for individuals from Rocky Mount

  • $5,000 to United Community Ministries for the House the Children program

  • $4,500 to the Williford Family Resource Center for the "Books, Breakfast and More" program

 
This year the ECF board granted:
 

  • $1,300 to the Association for Learning Disabled and Handicapped for tutoring in Edgecombe County for exceptional students

  • $2,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Nash/Edgecombe Counties for the Formula for Impact - Edgecombe County program

  • $1,000 to the Buck Leonard Assoc. for Sports & Human Enrichment, Inc for the Growing-up STEM-Wise Excursion Project

  • $2,000 to the Community Medicine Foundation Inc.-VOICE for general operating support

  • $2,000 to the Down East Partnership for Children for sustaining the Family Resource Center

  • $1,500 to the Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council, Inc. for Happening on the Common - 2019

  • $2,500 to the Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines for the Edgecombe County Girl Scout Leadership Experience

  • $2,000 to Michaels Angels Girls Club for the GRASP(Grades Raised-up and Sustained Programming): Cultural Exploration program

  • $3,500 to the North Edgecombe High School Athletic Department for the North Edgecombe Player Safety Initiative

  • $5,000 to the Peacemakers Family Center (Church on the Rise) for the Freedom School

  • $1,000 to Prevent Blindness North Carolina for Star Pupils Edgecombe County

  • $2,000 to the STEP Strategic Twin-Counties Education Partnership for the Twin-Counties STEM Design Challenge

  • $4,450 to Tarboro Community Outreach for feeding the hungry

  • $2,000 to Teach For America - Eastern North Carolina for supporting leaders for education in Edgecombe County

  • $2,690 to the Town of Tarboro for the Downtown Live Summer Music Series

  • $2,000 to the Truth Foundational Ministries CDC Inc (TFM) for the food pantry

  • $5,000 to United Community Ministries for the House the Children program

 
Johnson and Thorne thanked the community for its support of the Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation for Greater Rocky Mount and the Edgecombe Charitable Foundation. “We are proud to support these nonprofit programs that are so vital to the community,” Johnson said. “We are grateful to the many generous individuals and organizations that have supported our work to inspire philanthropy across our community,” Thorne said.
For further information, contact NCCF Regional Director Kelly Lee at 252-557-0278 or klee@nccommunityfoundation.org or visit the NCCF website at nccommunityfoundation.org.
The Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation and the Edgecombe Charitable Foundation are growing families of philanthropic funds, resource areas for nonprofits, sources of grants for local causes and partners for donors. Futrell-Mauldin and ECF are led by separate, local advisory boards that help build their respective community assets through the creation of permanent endowments, make grants and leverage leadership—all for the benefit of the Rocky Mount area and Edgecombe County. Whatever your means or charitable goals, both Futrell-Mauldin and ECF make it easy to become a philanthropist. Futrell-Mauldin was founded in 1998 and the ECF was founded in 1995, and both are affiliate foundations of the North Carolina Community Foundation.
In addition to Johnson, Futrell-Mauldin board members include: Celeste Pittman (vice president), Sheila Powell Martin (secretary), Sally Mayo Adams, Thomas Betts, Angela Burton, Mark Daley, Annie Daughtridge, Richard Futtrell, Kevin Harris, William Kincheloe, Deborah Sperati, Braxton Townsend and Elizabeth Turnage. In addition to Thorne, ECF board members include: Mary Jane Jenkins (vice president), Laura Temple (secretary), Mahlon Deloatch (treasurer), Jim Marrow (grants chair), Calvin Adkins, Thomas Anderson, Alison Blodgett, Joy Chafin, W.G. Clark, Carol Cobb, Jerome Creech, Anthony Edwards, Jamilla Hawkins, Linda Knight, Anne Lewis, Michael Peters, Mears Pitt and Margaret-Anne Wooten.
Tax-deductible contributions, made payable to either the Futrell-Mauldin Community Foundation for Greater Rocky Mount or the Edgecombe Charitable Foundation, can be mailed to the North Carolina Community Foundation, 3737 Glenwood Ave. Suite 460, Raleigh, NC 27612. Contributions can also be made online at nccommunityfoundation.org.
 
About the North Carolina Community Foundation
 
The NCCF is the single statewide community foundation serving North Carolina and has administered more than $145 million in grants since its inception in 1988. With more than $270 million in assets, NCCF sustains 1,300 endowments established to provide long-term support of a broad range of community needs, nonprofit organizations, institutions and scholarships. The NCCF partners with a network of affiliate foundations to provide local resource allocation and community assistance across the state. An important component of NCCF’s mission is to ensure that rural philanthropy has a voice at local, regional and national levels.
 
For more information, visit nccommunityfoundation.org, like us on Facebook and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @NCCF.
 
News media contact
 
Kelly Lee, NCCF Regional Director
252-557-0278, klee@nccommunityfoundation.org
 

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