Purposeful Partnerships

Community Voices Shape Strategic Community Impact Plan

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Values-Based.
Mission-Guided.
Data-Informed.

DCA forges purposeful partnerships with our neighbors to improve health and well-being in our community.

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11.23.21

Rooted in Respect: A Purposeful Collaboration

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11.17.21

Education Grant Application Now Open

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11.10.21

Reclaiming and Restoring a Black Burial Ground in Durham

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11.04.21

What it Means to Give to Doing Good

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10.22.21

Evaluation Consultation for Community Organizations

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10.20.21

Doing Good Employee Giving Campaign Highlights

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Resources for Community-Engaged Scholarship at Duke

A Community-Engaged Scholarship Collaborative Event Friday, Nov. 5, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Campus partners…
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Community-Engaged Scholarship Collaborative

The Collaborative is a place to learn, share and actively apply concepts and insights reflecting best practices for community-engaged scholarship.

Foundations of Engagement

Our workshops and training modules provide an opportunity to explore essential questions related to community engagement.

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Featured Programs

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America Reads America Counts

The America Reads / America Counts (ARAC) program is designed to enhance the primary-level reading and math skills of children in Durham while offering Duke students a chance to gain valuable experience and give back to their community.
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Doing Good Employee Giving

Learn more about how giving together can create lasting impact in Durham and the region. Duke Doing Good contributions support affordable housing, disaster relief work, community health clinics, early childhood learning, and more.

Duke Homebuyers Club

A free resource that connects Duke employees and their family members to financial and homebuying tools
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College Advising Corps

The College Advising Corps (CAC) at Duke works to increase the number of low-income, first generation college and underrepresented high school students who enter and complete higher education. Duke currently employs 18 full-time college advisers to serve NC high schools.
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Jumpstart

Jumpstart is a national early education organization working toward the day every child in America enters kindergarten prepared to succeed.
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PepsiCo K-12 Technology Mentor Program

A PepsiCo endowment funds instructional technology innovation, offers curriculum-related materials to support their work, and increases the information literacy of Durham Public Schools students.
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Impact Stories

Doing Good Employee Giving Delivers Collective Community Impact

“After the year we’ve been through we need do to do all we can.” Hear why some donors give to the Doing Good campaign and how it impacts the community.

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Impact Stories

Why I Give – Fang-Fang Yin

Why do people choose to contribute their time and resources to Duke Doing Good? The reasons are as varied as the schools, nonprofits and neighborhoods that benefit from these gifts.

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Impact Stories

Durham Children’s Initiative Offers Hope and Success

DCI supports underserved families from “cradle to college or employment.” The program first assisted Tiffany White’s younger children, but ultimately it helped her entire family reach their goals.

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Impact Stories

DPSF School Reopening Grants

Duke supports public education by partnering with Durham Public Schools Foundation. A contribution to the Foundation’s School Reopening Grants program yielded wonderful results in our community for teachers, parents and students. Since March, 2021, $300,000 has gone to 39 schools for urgent needs related to returning to the classroom.

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