Carrboro Resident Honored for Advocacy Work
Photo via North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities A Carrboro resident has been...
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10 Local Non-Profits Win IMPACT Award from GSK
International healthcare company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced their IMPACT Award winners this week. The award, in its tenth year in the Triangle area, recognizes contributions to community health around GSK’s corporate...
Read MoreOrange County Rape Crisis Center Sees Spike in Calls
The Orange County Rape Crisis Center saw a 250 percent increase in calls in the two weeks surrounding the sexual assault allegations made against then-nominee to the United States Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh. The center’s...
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CASA Reviewing Options for Affordable Housing Project in Chapel Hill, Carrboro
Leaders of a local non-profit focused on affordable housing are regrouping after missing out on a...
Read MoreIFC Pulls Proposed Changes to Good Neighbor Plan
The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service has put off a proposal to alter the Good Neighbor Plan for the non-profit’s Community House men’s shelter. Earlier this year, IFC leadership proposed changes to the plan that was agreed...
Read MoreCompass Center to Expand Services for Domestic Violence Survivors
Chapel Hill’s Compass Center for Women and Families is expanding its services to include housing and mental health support to victims of domestic violence and their children. Thanks to a $350,000 grant from the Governor’s Crime...
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Chapel Hill Charity Awards Grant for Durham Tech English as a Second Language Courses
Chapel Hill-based charitable foundation Strowd Roses, Inc. has granted $4,000 to Durham Tech...
Read MoreSupport Center Seeks to Give Refugees a Chance in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
World Refugee Day was last month, yet, despite the awareness being raised on the issue, there are more than 65 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, the most since World War II, according to the United Nations. Flicka...
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PTA Thrift Shop Entering ‘Period of Due Diligence’ Over Use of PTA in Name
The PTA Thrift Shop will enter a “period of due diligence, beginning in the fall, regarding our...
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Decision Looming After PTA Council Request PTA Thrift Shop Drop PTA from Name
An issue that had been bubbling for years finally boiled over earlier this month when the Chapel...
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