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07.28.21

44th Annual Volunteer Fair

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07.22.21

NPR Features Regional Spelling Bee Winner

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07.14.21

Announcing Community-Engaged Scholarship Collaborative Launch

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07.11.21

Durham Children’s Initiative Offers Hope and Success

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06.02.21

A Key to Homeownership

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05.20.21

Durham Community Connections Stay Strong Durham Pandemic

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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

When we give together, we are united. Duke employee 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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Tapestry

Community Engagement Report 2019-2020

Thank you to our community partners, our Duke Health and Duke University colleagues, students, staff and faculty for a year full of challenges overcome, community created and partners supported.

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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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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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A Key to Homeownership

Stacie Daye spends a lot of time at her kitchen island, creating meals such as Jamaican beef patties, shrimp curry and salads with collard greens, arugula and peppers from her garden. The kitchen island, with its sparkling granite countertop, is one of Daye’s favorite features in the north Durham house she and her husband Craig purchased in 2018.

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Latin-19 Tackle COVID-19 Disparities

Formed as the pandemic ramped up earlier this year, LATIN-19 built connections, spread information and looks ahead with hope.

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