Where We Give
Organizations supported by donations to the Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign can be found throughout Durham and the region. The map above shows the many projects that Duke Community Giving donors support through the campaign.
For more information about United Way of the Greater Triangle recipient organizations, visit http://www.unitedwaytriangle.org/
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Children's Environmental Health Initiative
Children's Environmental Health Initiative
Duke employee contributions supported the Bringing Books to Children project, through which all children in the Durham and Orange County Head Start programs were provided with books. The Children's Environmental Health Initiative, out of the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, is a research, education and outreach program committed to fostering environments where all children can prosper.
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Freedom House Recovery Center
Freedom House Recovery Center
Duke employee donations help men and women in halfway houses find permanent housing and employment, primary medical care, family support, and personal and interpersonal life skills.
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Project Compassion
Project Compassion
Duke employee donations allow for caregiver support and networks for African Americans living with cancer and other serious illnesses.
Learn more about the work of Project Compassion: http://www.project-compassion.org/
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Citizen Schools
Citizen Schools
Duke employee contributions support innovative, hands-on and engaging science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) apprenticeships for at-risk, low-income middle school students in Durham.
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Lyon Park Community Family Life & Recreation Center
Lyon Park Community Family Life & Recreation Center
The Lyon Park Clinic, a joint program of Lincoln Community Health Center and Duke Community Health, was designed with the help of multiple community members to meet the health needs of residents in the Southwest Central Durham community. The Lyon Park Clinic is easily accessible to any Durham resident needing care.
The Lyon Park Clinic serves all members of the family, treating infants to older adults. Many families are facing difficult financial situations, and often don't have medical insurance. Some residents have chronic medical conditions that impact their lives each day. These clinics offer them a place to get the primary health care that they or their families may need, as well as access to health education.
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Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park
Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park
Duke employee contributions support CommUNITY Scholars, a Calvary Ministries of the West End afterschool enrichment program for youth from Southwest Central Durham.
For more information, visit the CommUNITY Scholars program.
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Lakewood Elementary
Lakewood Elementary
Duke employee contributions supported the Community Stories program, which engaged students and parents in a series of literacy-based activities and performances in the evening.
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Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center
Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center
Duke employee donations allow the Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center to expand their ability to offer, at no cost, integrative therapy for cancer patients, survivors and family members.
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Reality Ministries' New Horizons Academy
Reality Ministries' New Horizons Academy
Duke employee donations help fund the work of a local computer technician who offers a regular, year-round class to the high-school-aged students attending this alternative school. In addition to building computer literacy, the class is designed to increase students' self-esteem and self-awareness.
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The Scrap Exchange
The Scrap Exchange
The Scrap Exchange is a long-standing Durham non-profit with a mission to engage the community in creative reuse. Duke employee donations will help create a community Design Center, equipped with machinery and tools and available to the public seven days per week. Design Center operations will also include a tool lending library, classes, workshops and open studios throughout the year.
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Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage
Duke employee donations support the Digital Connectors program, a technology and skills training course for young people in the Walltown neighborhood.
Get more information about the Digital Connectors project.
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Rogers-Herr Middle School
Rogers-Herr Middle School
Duke employee contributions have supported the following projects at Rogers-Herr:
- Do Something Research Project, which allows students to pursue a community service project in conjunction with the school's existing curriculum
- 21st Century Social Studies Classroom, which prepares students for local and international markets through the development of technological, analytical and communication skills
- Science Leaders Club, which allows students in the Science Explorers Club to become leaders and science experts for their peers and schoolmates
- Real-World Math Lessons, which encourages connections between students' lessons and the real world with the Scholastic News MATH series
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Durham's Partnership for Children
Durham's Partnership for Children
Duke employee donations help fund the development and administration of this seamless application and assessment process, which ensures that at-risk four-year-olds are matched to proper pre-kindergarten education services.
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Piedmont Wildlife Center
Piedmont Wildlife Center
Duke employee donations fund an after-school environmental education program for low-income students from four Durham public schools: Creekside, Forest View, Githens and Rogers-Herr.
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Clean Energy Durham
Clean Energy Durham
Duke employee donations support the expansion of hands-on, home-based energy-saving workshops for neighbors in Southwest Central Durham.
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Lakewood Montessori MIddle
Lakewood Montessori MIddle
Lakewood Montessori Middle School opened in Fall 2011 and is new to the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership. Already Duke employee donations are supporting the Enlaces Latino youth outreach program, and future projects will be determined by the school's teachers, principals and parents.
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Forest View Elementary School
Forest View Elementary School
Duke employee contributions have supported the following programs at Forest View Elementary:
- Enrichment for English Language Learners, which offered experiential learning and background knowledge development for the schools English Language Learners
- Extended Day Enrichment for Challenged Learners, which provided additional support for low-performing students with a focus on African-American and Latino males
- Parent ESL Class, which engaged in learning the parents of students in the Extended Day program
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Durham Literacy Center
Durham Literacy Center
Duke employee donations allowed this non-profit to build upon the programming and accessibility of Escuela de la Familia, a program that promotes literacy for Latino mothers and families.
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KidZNotes
KidZNotes
KidZNotes is a non-profit based on the El Sistema model that teaches classical, orchestral music to low-income students in Durham. Duke employee donations are allowing this organization to serve additional students at three schools and allowing it to expand to a new fourth site, Club Boulevard Elementary.
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Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club
Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club
Duke employee donations support the youth athletic parents of this local Boys & Girls Club, along with a component to encourage the attendance and participation of parents and families.
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Communities in Schools of Durham
Communities in Schools of Durham
Duke employee donations support a collaboration between Communities in Schools of Durham and Durham Public Schools to place Graduation Coaches at three of Durham's highest-need middle and high schools, to provide resources and ongoing support for teenagers at risk of dropping out of school.
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George Watts Elementary
George Watts Elementary
Duke employee contributions supported the Great Readers of Watts, or G.R.O.W., program, which improved reading and comprehension skills among the school's struggling readers and included a parent engagement component.
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Accion Emprendedora USA
Accion Emprendedora USA
Duke employee donations support this Durham-based non-profit's efforts to increase and enhance competitiveness and economic opportunities for low-income, Hispanic micro entrepreneurs through coaching, training and business management support.
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NC Museum of Life and Science
NC Museum of Life and Science
Duke employee donations help to underwrite the direct costs associated with providing Ignite Learning museum memberships, which allow local families in need to regularly visit and take advantage of the museum's many educational resources. Donations also support the museum's efforts to provide cultural training for its staff.
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Innovation4Motivation
Innovation4Motivation
Duke employee donations support a successful intersession program run by non-profit Innovation4Motivation for low-income middle school students at Chewning Middle School, a year-round school.
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City of Medicine Academy
City of Medicine Academy
Duke employee contributions support internship positions for rising City of Medicine Academy seniors, as well as college trips for students.
To learn more about Duke-sponsored internships for City of Medicine Academy students visit
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Urban Ministries of Durham
Urban Ministries of Durham
Duke employee donations support a fund that provides small amounts of financial assistance to help Urban Ministries clients achieve their goals of finding homes, securing jobs and obtaining education.
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Emily K. Center
Emily K. Center
Duke employee contributions support the Emily K. Center's K to College Model, a series of out-of-school programs designed to meet the needs of low-income students with academic promise.
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Durham Economic Resource Center
Durham Economic Resource Center
Duke employee donations support a part-time Latino outreach worker, hired by DERC in partnership with El Centro Hispano, to significantly increase the number of Latino residents accessing the center’s low-cost household goods.
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Voices Together
Voices Together
Duke employee donations support Little Voices, a therapeutic choral group for young Durham Public Schools students with developmental disabilities.
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Crayons2Calculators
Crayons2Calculators
Duke employee donations support the expansion of monthly school supply giveaways to more schools and teachers.
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Walltown
Walltown
The Walltown Neighborhood Clinic, a joint program of Lincoln Community Health Center and Duke Community Health, was designed with the help of multiple community members to meet the health needs of residents in the Walltown community. The clinic, located in a renovated house in the Walltown Neighborhood, is easily accessible to any Durham resident needing care.
These health clinics serve all members of the family, treating infants to older adults. Many families are facing difficult financial situations, and often don't have medical insurance. Some residents have chronic medical conditions that impact their lives each day. These clinics offer them a place to get the primary health care that they or their families may need, as well as access to health education.
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Crest Street Tutorial Project
Crest Street Tutorial Project
Contribution to Doing Good in the Neighborhood support the New Bethel Tutorial Program, which offers afterschool and summer enrichment for youth in the Crest Street neighborhood.
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Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership
Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership
Doing Good in the Neighborhood funds support projects as needs arise in Northwest Central Durham neighborhoods. Past funded projects have included community clean-up days, neighborhood food drives, programming for Walltown youth, and a summer jobs program for teenagers in Crest Street.
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Achievement Academy of Durham
Achievement Academy of Durham
Duke employee donations support Opt In, an enriching electives and life-skills curriculum for students who have dropped out of high school and are working to earn a High School Equivalency Diploma.
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Schoolhouse of Wonder
Schoolhouse of Wonder
The Schoolhouse of Wonder seeks to inspire, to ignite imaginations, and to build self-confidence by connecting children from all walks of life to nature. Duke employee donations support the development of a practical, outcomes-based evaluation system to monitor short- and long-term outcomes and to help this long-standing community non-profit improve its practices and strategies.
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Juanita McNeil and Joseph Alston West End Community Center
Juanita McNeil and Joseph Alston West End Community Center
Employee donations support the West End Community Center's Parent Involvement and Skill Enhancement program, which was designed to get parents involved in their children’s academic and social lives.
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Partners for Youth, Inc.
Partners for Youth, Inc.
Duke employee donations supported the Partners in Excellence program, which provides tutoring for at-risk students.
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Durham County Cooperative Extension
Durham County Cooperative Extension
Duke employee donations support this program designed to help individuals, families and communities by extending services that improve the quality of life of youth in gangs or at risk of becoming involved with gangs.
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Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham
Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham
Duke employee donations help to meet ex-inmates' emergent needs, such as transportation, housing, prescription co-payments, food, phone service, and job-related clothing and tools. Funds also support a network of care that helps ex-inmates successfully reenter society.
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Walltown Children's Theatre
Walltown Children's Theatre
Duke employee contributions fund scholarships for low-income students to attend arts programming at Walltown Children's Theatre.
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Bridges Pointe Foundation
Bridges Pointe Foundation
Duke employee donations support blood drives for sickle cell patient transfusions and trait testing, comfort fairs for sickle cell patients, and community health fairs for sickle cell disease.
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Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership
Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership
Doing Good in the Neighborhood funds support projects as needs arise in Southwest Central Durham. Past funded projects include the work of the Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project, which empowers community residents to improve quality of life through housing, economic development, and community-building pursuits.
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El Centro Hispano
El Centro Hispano
Duke employee contributions will support special projects designed to meet the needs of the Hispanic community in Durham.
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Durham School of the Arts
Durham School of the Arts
Duke employee contributions have supported the following projects at Durham School of the Arts:
- Summer Learning in the Media Center, which supports and increases student reading during the summer months
- Enhanced Writing with Multimodal Digital Media, which allowed students to share their writing skills using contemporary modes such as podcasts, commercials, documentaries and PSAs
- Publishing Student Memoirs, whereby students edited one another's "Going on 15" memoirs for publication in a bound paperback book
- Hooked on Books, an ongoing support network designed to increase the ability and desire to read among African-American and Latino male students
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TROSA
TROSA
Duke employee donations support the stock and community programming of TROSA Grocery, which offers affordable and healthy food for low-income residents in East Durham.
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E.K. Powe Elementary
E.K. Powe Elementary
Duke employee contributions have supported the Using Your Marbles to Get Ahead in Math program, which is designed to improve the mathematical abilities and understanding of all 5th grade students at E.K Powe through interactive experiences.
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SWOOP
SWOOP
SWOOP is a non-profit organization that coordinates teams of trained, mostly female volunteers who take on significant construction projects for other local schools and non-profits. Duke employee donations will support a SWOOP workday to build a site for a neighborhood after-school program based at Durham's Love of God Missionary Baptist Church.
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Girls Rock NC
Girls Rock NC
Duke employee donations allow this non-profit to expand its camp location to Wake County, providing girls there with activities that foster creativity and positive youth development.
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E.K. Powe Elementary School
E.K. Powe Elementary School
The Duke University Health System's school-based clinics increase student access to primary care, respond to immediate health needs, and preempt adverse health and educational outcomes, including student absences from school, unnecessary use of the emergency department, missed parental work hours and inadequate care. School-based clinics provide urgent as well as ongoing care for chronic conditions. They also offer a relationship that children often lack – a continuing relationship with a health care provider.
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Glenn Elementary School
Glenn Elementary School
The Duke University Health System's school-based clinics increase student access to primary care, respond to immediate health needs, and preempt adverse health and educational outcomes, including student absences from school, unnecessary use of the emergency department, missed parental work hours and inadequate care. School-based clinics provide urgent as well as ongoing care for chronic conditions. They also offer a relationship that children often lack – a continuing relationship with a health care provider.
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Holton Career & Resource Center
Holton Career & Resource Center
The Duke University Health System's school-based clinics increase student access to primary care, respond to immediate health needs, and preempt adverse health and educational outcomes, including student absences from school, unnecessary use of the emergency department, missed parental work hours and inadequate care. School-based clinics provide urgent as well as ongoing care for chronic conditions. They also offer a relationship that children often lack – a continuing relationship with a health care provider.
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Southern High School
Southern High School
The Duke University Health System's school-based clinics increase student access to primary care, respond to immediate health needs, and preempt adverse health and educational outcomes, including student absences from school, unnecessary use of the emergency department, missed parental work hours and inadequate care. School-based clinics provide urgent as well as ongoing care for chronic conditions. They also offer a relationship that children often lack – a continuing relationship with a health care provider.
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George Watts Elementary School
George Watts Elementary School
The Duke University Health System's school-based clinics increase student access to primary care, respond to immediate health needs, and preempt adverse health and educational outcomes, including student absences from school, unnecessary use of the emergency department, missed parental work hours and inadequate care. School-based clinics provide urgent as well as ongoing care for chronic conditions. They also offer a relationship that children often lack – a continuing relationship with a health care provider.
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Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Duke employee donations, which supported the creation of a community garden in Durham's West End, also provide a venue for youth employment and to educate the community about the the value of local, fresh foods.
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Morehead Montessori School
Morehead Montessori School
Duke employee contributions have supported the following projects at Morehead:
- Citizens of the World, a year-long project through which students run a school-based store and use profits for community-service projects
- Y Learning, an after-school tutoring and enrichment program offered in partnership with the Durham YMCA
- Video Books, which improve literacy skills for under-performing ESL and Spanish-speaking students
- Math Academy, which gives students hands-on experiences with math concepts
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Student U
Student U
Duke employee contributions supported the expansion and improvement of Student U's year-round mentoring program for middle school students in Durham Public Schools.
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Durham Crisis Response Center
Durham Crisis Response Center
Duke employee donations supported the expansion of the Durham Crisis Response Center's successful Yoga for Youth program, which serves children and mothers in the Center's Latina Domestic Violence Support Group.
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Ligo Dojo of Budo Karate in Durham
Ligo Dojo of Budo Karate in Durham
Duke employee donations allow at-risk, low-income Durham teenagers to participate in an athletic activity that promotes character and leadership.