N.C. Community Development Initiative, Raleigh, welcomes new staffers: Angela Poole, former audit manager at Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, named chief financial officer; Aundra Wallace, former executive director of Miami Dade Empowerment Trust, named senior VP of commercial real estate; Sherrill Hampton, former executive director, Neighborhood Housing Services, named senior VP of residential development.
- January 6, 2009Lisa Familo, former executive director, Harnett County Partnership for Children, named executive director, N.C. Alliance for Health, Raleigh; Pam Seamans, former executive director of the Alliance, named policy director.
- January 6, 2009Jana Dunkley, young advocate, Boys and Girls Club of Wake County, named program associate, N.C. Network of Grantmakers.
- January 6, 2009N.C. Council of Churches, Raleigh, received Agency for Change award from N.C. Community Shares for activism on immigration reform, economic justice.
- January 6, 2009Jacque Grady, lead social worker, Hospice of Wake County, first in nation to earn Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Social Worker credential from National Association of Social Workers.
- December 30, 200888.5 WFDD, the Piedmont Triad's NPR affiliate, raised $23,748 for station during December campaign with $3,000 incentive donated to Triangle Second Harvest by Law Offices of Timothy D. Welborn.
- December 30, 2008New Voices School, Raleigh, raised $2,711 at swing music benefit concert on Dec. 20.
- December 30, 2008Downtown Raleigh Alliance named board members: Carter Worthy, president, Carter Worthy Commerical, named board chair; Clymer Cease, principal, Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee Architecture; Joseph B. Dempster, Jr., managing partner, Poyner Spruill; Melissa Essary, dean, Campbell University School of Law; George S. York, Jr., executive VP, York Properties, named to board, Downtown Raleigh Alliance.
- December 23, 2008Mike Warner, director, Davidson Athletic Foundation, named VP of development, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.
- December 23, 2008Leslie J. Winner, executive director, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, named Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston.
- December 23, 2008Susan Weaver, former executive director, Alliance Medical Ministry, named senior VP, WakeMed.
- December 23, 2008Leah Hambright, N.C. State University graduate, named Duke Endowment fellow.
- December 23, 2008Yvette Murphy-Erby, former teacher, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, named child-care program officer, Duke Endowment.
- December 18, 2008Jim "Catfish" Hunter Chapter of ALS Association, Raleigh, offering 10 $3,000 grants to state residents with Lou Gehrig's Disease or Primary Lateral Sclerosis for home-accessibility modifications; applications online.
- December 18, 2008Ronald McDonald House Family Room in Brenner Children's Hospital, Winston-Salem, hosted 100,000 visit for parents of hospitalized children.
- December 18, 2008Easley Elementary, North Forest Pines Elementary, Forest Pines Elementary, Saint Mary's School raised total of $5,544 for North Carolina chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's CureFinders program.