Doing Good in the Neighborhood

Special Washington Duke Inn Give-Away this Friday

dgin — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:15:55 +0000

In a special partnership with the Washington Duke Inn, the Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign will conduct a drawing this Friday, January 18 for our donors. The Washington Duke Inn, in recognition of the generosity of the Duke employees who donate to the campaign, has donated the following prizes:

Thirty (30) lunches for two at the Washington Duke Inn’s Fairview Dining Room or Bull Durham Bar
Five (5) one-night stays for two, including breakfast or in-room dining
One (1) Presidential Suite Package for two
Ten (10) one-year memberships in the Executive Club at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club

All Duke employees who have donated to the 2012-13 campaign by close of business on Friday will be entered into the random drawings. Many thanks to the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club for the prizes, and to our Duke colleagues who support the campaign!

Our Final Fall Raffle Winners

dgin — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:26:54 +0000

Congratulations to the 2012-13 donors who won in our final round of Fall give-aways, and many thanks to all of our colleagues who donate! Our gifts make a difference in Durham and the region.

604 at West Village

Tracie Dunn, Duke Hospital
Richard Kennedy, Duke Urgent Care South
Diane Pruett, Duke Hospital

Alivia’s

Melissa Brasington, Duke Medicine
Maxie Figgs, Duke Hospital
Judith Martin, Art of Moving Image
Joanna Rojas, Internal Audits

Bull City Burger & Brewery

Cathy Davidson, Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC)
Robin Geller, Nicholas School of the Environment
Rose Norman, Office of the Controller

Duke Lemur Center

Jayne Genier, Duke University Affiliated Physicians

Duke Stores

Harvey Cohen, Center for the Study of Aging & Human Development

Elmo’s Diner

David Malone, Program in Education
Danielle Szulczewski, Duke Press

Lilly’s Pizza

David Len, Duke Health Technology Solutions
Thomas Patterson, Continuing Studies
David Singleton, University Counsel
Mayme Webb-Bledsoe, Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership
Kathy Willis, Durham Regional Hospital
Valla Wilson, Private Diagnostic Clinics

Ninth Street Flowers

Bryan Baines, Office of Licensing and Ventures
Staci Bilbo, Psychology and Neuroscience
Eva Click, Duke Human Vaccine Institute
Alice Gray, Pulmonary Medicine
Barbara Hendrix, DUHS Risk Management
David Jarmul, Office of News and Communications
Randall Kramer, Economics and Nicholas School of the Environment
Mark Leary, Psychology and Neuroscience
Alyssa Perz-Edwards, Biology
Douglas Wixted, Duke Translational Medicine Institute

Parizade

Philip Rupprecht, Music

Pop’s: A Durham Trattoria

Anne Pusey, Evolutionary Anthropology

Tobacco Road Sports Cafe

Lisa Giragosian, Student Affairs
John Martin, History
Thomas Rankin, Center for Documentary Studies
Kathy Shipp, Physical Therapy
Justin Wright, Biology

Tyler’s Restaurant & Taproom

Ronna Dornsife, CT2-CCBB
Wendy Goldstein, Fuqua School of Business

Watts Grocery

Phyllis Anderson, Patient Revenue Management Organization
Andrea Archibald, Durham Regional Hospital
Pakis Bessias, Graduate School
Lisa Bourget, Duke Medicine Global
Brett Dickinson, Ambulatory Surgery Center
Xiaomei Gao, Duke Cancer Institute
Carole Gunter, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Tiesha Pope, Internal Audits
Renee Stringam, Blood Gas Lab

Raffle Announcements Next Week — Happy Thanksgiving!

dgin — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:07:15 +0000

Many thanks to the hundreds of our colleagues who donated to the 2012-13 Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign. We saw a great response in our final week, and we are updating our database to include all of our new donors.

Because that will take us a few days, we will conduct our final raffles next Monday, November 26. Check back next week to see our winners.

We are grateful for our colleagues who donate what they can in support of “Doing Good.” Have a very happy Thanksgiving!

Update and Audio Slideshow

dgin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:09:01 +0000

We’ve seen 100 new donors sign up this week so far — many thanks to our new and returning donors! Our combined gifts have a great impact on the schools, neighborhoods and non-profits that benefit from the campaign.

See below for the prizes, donated by local businesses, that we’ll raffle off at the end of this week as a token of appreciation for our donors.

And click here for the latest Duke Today story, including an audio slideshow of the campaign at work.

Final-Week Raffles!

dgin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:33:28 +0000

A big thank you to the hundreds of our colleagues who already have donated to the 2012-13 Doing Good in the Neighborhood employee giving campaign. Your gifts make a big difference for the schools, neighborhoods and non-profits that benefit from this effort.

For Duke employees who have not yet given, or have yet to renew your gift from last year, it’s not too late! Click here to donate online to Duke Community Giving, to United Way of the Greater Triangle, or both. You can also e-mail your giving preference to doinggood@duke.edu.

As an added bonus, employees who give THIS WEEK, by close of business on November 16, will be entered into a series of drawings for prizes donated by local businesses! We’ll also wrap up the campaign with drawings for our donors who already have given or pledged, including our ongoing donors.

Many thanks to our colleagues for supporting Doing Good in the Neighborhood!

2012 Community Care Fund Awards Announced

dgin — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:17:23 +0000

Congratulations to the 30 local non-profit recipients of this year’s Community Care Fund awards! This was a very competitive grant cycle, and each of our 30 recipients submitted strong proposals in support of critical community projects. Grants ranged in size from $1,000 to $4,000, for a total of $98,918 awarded in support of great work around the Triangle.

The 2012 awards, listed below, are funded with dollars raised during the 2011-12 Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign. Many thanks to all the valuable non-profits that applied, and to the Duke employees who make these grants possible.

We invite our Duke colleagues to sign up in support of this year’s campaign — as our donations increase, so does the reach and impact of this grant program! Please follow the links to learn more about each recipient organization.

Accion Emprendedora USA: Strategic marketing support for the non-profit’s network of local Hispanic entrepreneurs
Book Harvest: Books for Free, a program that provides tens of thousands of free children’s books for distribution at dozens of Triangle locations where low-income children are served
Bridges Pointe Foundation: Outreach project to educate the community about Sickle Cell Disease and connect patients to social and medical care
Crayons2Calculators: Support for an Operations Manager to coordinate the overwhelming donation and volunteer support for the organization’s free school supply store for local teachers
Durham Community Land Trustees: Funding to help volunteers complete home repair and improvement projects for low- and moderate-income homeowners in Southwest Central Durham
Durham Congregations in Action: Through YO:Durham, a year of opportunity for one teen intern to take part in a Summer Career Academy followed by a school-year mentoring and internship program
Durham Cooperative Extension: Project BUILD, an individualized and evidence-based gang prevention program for youth ages 14 to 21
Durham Crisis Response Center: YOGA4LIFE!, which uses yoga concepts to reduce stress and trauma for victims of domestic violence
Durham Literacy Center: Literacy, parenting and kindergarten readiness program for Latino families
El Futuro, Inc.: Child and Family Trauma Treatment program to help Spanish-speaking Durham residents recover from trauma
Feed My Sheep: Connecting low-income, home-bound seniors to service providers and offering hot meals, nutrition education and social interaction
Freedom House Recovery Center: A cohesive rehabilitation program that couples long-term residential treatment with community support services
Genesis Home: Shelter and supportive, capacity-building services to help 15 families successfully transition from homelessness
Healthy Families Durham: Funding support for home visits and necessities for young at-risk parents
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: Jobs and job skills for teenagers at the West End Community Garden
Ligo Dojo of Budo Karate: Addition of a cognitive behavior therapy component to the Young Warriors karate training program for at-risk and low-income youth
Lincoln Community Health Center: Basic necessities and transportation assistance for patients of the center’s Healthcare for the Homeless Clinic
Museum of Life and Science: Ignite Learning, the program to provide heavily subsidized museum memberships to hundreds of low-income families
NEEM: Diversified agroforestry and specialty crops project to form a trail that will connect two Durham communities, N.C. Central University, and four public schools
Pauli Murray Project: The Youth Prophesy Poetry Contest & Workshops to engage Durham teenagers in exploring and honoring local African-American history while developing their writing skills and creativity
Playworks: The Junior Coach program, which develops leadership skills in fourth- and fifth-grade participants while promoting positive activity and preventing bullying on local school playgrounds
Project Compassion: Free non-medical care-giving support to cancer patients and their family care-givers
Reinvestment Partners: Home improvement projects to help protect 25 families from health hazards such as asthma, lead poisoning and mold
Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham: Restorative Circles project, which seeks to address the individual and collective harm of fatal violence and facilitate the restorative process for homicide victims’ family and community members
Schoolhouse of Wonder: Development of a grade-specific, state-standard-aligned curriculum for students and teachers from E.K. Powe Elementary to benefit from a series of walking field trips to the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association’s “17-Acre Wood”
Strong Women Organizing Outrageous Projects (SWOOP): Ramp It Up!, the program that allows SWOOP’s trained volunteers to meet a continuing community need for the installation of affordable wheelchair ramps
Student Action with Farmworkers: Support for bilingual college students who work to improve the living and working conditions of Triangle farmworkers and their families through legal, education and health outreach
TROSA: Support for the non-profit’s Education Project, which allows program residents to pursue their GED, continuing education credits, college credits, and even college degrees as part of their path away from substance abuse to full independence
Urban Ministries of Durham: The Journey Forward Assistance Fund to help Urban Ministries’ clients find homes, secure jobs and obtain education
Voices Together: Educational and therapeutic music-based program that ignites language and social learning for public-school children with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities

Congratulations, Chief Dailey!

dgin — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:29:44 +0000

Congratulations to Duke Police Chief John Dailey, a loyal campaign donor and the winner of last week’s raffle of tickets to “Painting with the Lemurs,” donated by the Duke Lemur Center.

Dailey said it well: “What an unexpected surprise. Those who give to the Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign don’t expect recognition. I’m proud to be a part of both Duke and Durham — I was brought up in Durham.”

Many thanks to Dailey for his support, and to the Lemur Center for the tickets. Be on the lookout for even more raffles as we pass the campaign’s halfway point!

Thanks to KidZNotes!

dgin — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:28:24 +0000

Many thanks to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders who performed on Duke’s West Campus yesterday afternoon as part of the Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign. Through the non-profit KidZNotes, a campaign beneficiary, the children have an opportunity to learn classical orchestral music and positive decision making abilities. Thursday’s concert drew a great crowd of employees, students and other KidZNotes supporters — click here to see more photos from the performance.

Join Us this Thursday for a KidZNotes Concert on West Campus

dgin — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:18:27 +0000

Please join us for a concert by the Beethoven Ensemble, local elementary school students who are learning classical orchestral music through the non-profit KidZNotes. Based on the El Sistema model, KidZNotes seeks to fight poverty and promote good decision making by instructing and engaging children in music.

See the flyer below for more details, and please plan to join us at 4:30 for music and campaign giveaways!

Congrats to Donor Orin Starn!

dgin — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:11:07 +0000

Congratulations to Orin Starn, who won the first 2012-13 Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign raffle! Starn, a faculty member in Cultural Anthropology, won a $100 gift certificate donated by Duke University Stores.

Starn has been at Duke for more than 20 years and said he’s proud to donate to Doing Good in the Neighborhood.

“I’ve watched with pleasure the very positive things that Duke has begun to do over this time to be a good neighbor in Durham, with its support for Durham Public Schools and on many other worthwhile community initiatives.”

Many thanks to Starn and our hundreds of other colleagues who donate to Doing Good in the Neighborhood! Check back to see our ongoing raffles and events, and contact Neil Hoefs to learn more about our Giving Challenge and other ways to support the campaign alongside your colleagues.

Explore this site and check out the Duke Today campaign kick-off story to learn more about how our gifts make a difference through Doing Good in the Neighborhood.