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The origins of labor Day are rather dubious, born from congressional guilt of Americans shot down, by the Army and U.S. Marshalls, while exercising their first amendment right to congregate and protest during the Pullman Strike in Haymarket Square in Chicago on may 4, 1886.
Published: Monday, September 1st, 2025 @ 9:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Cooper Leads Bipartisan Letter Urging Congress to Continue Program that Helps North Carolinians Afford High-Speed Internet
Published: Friday, January 26th, 2024 @ 8:27 am
By: Governor's Office
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Recently, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer Scott T. Hamilton sat down with the President of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, Dr. Laura Gerald, via Zoom and filmed an episode of Critical Conversations.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 6:14 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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On April 27, 2023, the Golden LEAF Foundation hosted a funder forum in conjunction with the Kickoff of the Community-Based Grants Initiative in the Piedmont-Triad.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 4:57 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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North Carolina is home to a number of funding institutions supporting strategies necessary for economic growth.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 3:57 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina Community Foundation has completed its 2022 round of grantmaking from its COVID-19 relief fund, with another $1.25 million distributed to assist nonprofit organizations that were impacted by revenue loss and increased demand for services because of the pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 6:50 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The Pritzker family has made headlines in recent years for their political and philanthropic activity, as they leverage the billions of dollars inherited from the Hyatt Hotel fortune to advance progressive causes.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 11:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Personal information of 56 million voters shared
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 5:39 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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On July 6, the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund at the North Carolina Community Foundation will open a new round of grant applications powered by expanded funding and partnerships.
Published: Monday, June 20th, 2022 @ 11:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Manning listed among the top 20 richest members of Congress.
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The interstate program is the best data sharing option North Carolina has to clean its voter rolls because it is currently the only data sharing option to clean its voter rolls
Published: Thursday, May 19th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than a year after the first North Carolina Healing Communities Fund grants were issued by the North Carolina Community Foundation, the fund has distributed $4.25 million to help provide critical resources for nonprofit organizations impacted by revenue loss and increased demand for services
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2022 @ 3:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As the U.S. reckons with record-breaking drug overdose deaths during the COVID-19 epidemic, Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies is making an investment to help combat the overdose crisis.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 11:52 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Morales Burke is a seasoned executive with more than 30 years of experience helping to lead government agencies through complex challenges.
Published: Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 @ 6:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper recognized and honored North Carolina’s African American leaders and organizations in health and medicine for their contributions to heal and care for their communities.
Published: Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 @ 10:06 am
By: Governor's Office
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Seasoned leader brings healthcare, public-private partnership expertise to FHLI
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 2:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation today announced that its Rural Forward NC Program Director Calvin Allen has been named to the Theory of Change Working Group for Thrive Rural
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 3:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Fears of a global economic slowdown, fueled in part by the coronavirus outbreak, took a $4.2 billion chunk out of North Carolina’s state pension plan.
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 10:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina should avoid borrowing billions, even though the state’s “credit card limit,” a recent study says, is more than $11 billion over the next decade.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2020 @ 12:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the Trump Administration released a new tool to assist rural community leaders in building an effective local response to the crisis of addiction.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2020 @ 9:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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When Hurricane Florence battered North Carolina, vaccines spoiled in Lee Ann Amann’s clinic and across the coastline. Without a reliable generator, her clinic shut down and lost tens of thousands of dollars.
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 @ 10:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s state pension plan is prepared to weather another recession, a Pew Charitable Trusts stress test says.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 12:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Dr. Laura Gerald, president of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, will be the keynote speaker for East Carolina University’s Fall Commencement Ceremony on Friday, Dec. 13 at 9 a.m. in Minges Coliseum.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2019 @ 5:40 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today that the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) Office of Rural Health (ORH) has awarded 23 grants for disaster preparedness to health care providers affected by Hurricane Florence.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 6:00 pm
By: Governor's Office
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As famously said by former president Barak Obama, the best anti-poverty program is a job. In North Carolina, as of June 2019, there were 1.21 open jobs for every unemployed person on the job market.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 @ 1:55 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Once again, a group of influential green groups and corporations are promoting a global climate strike.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2019 @ 11:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The NC Office of Rural Health (ORH) has received a one-time $1 million grant from Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to support health care providers in 34 FEMA-identified counties affected by Hurricane Florence.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 @ 9:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In December 2018, I wrote the following: “As a general rule, the public and politicians should never view economic impact studies as anything more than an attempt by special interests to manipulate public opinion for their own benefit.”
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2019 @ 11:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As many as 626,000 North Carolinians with incomes below 133% of the poverty level might qualify for Medicaid.
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2019 @ 10:32 am
By: Governor's Office
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The economic costs of corporate tax incentives outweigh their benefits, a new study by N.C. State University researchers says.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 5:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The NC House: Hospitals are Too Important to Fail, but Taxpayers are Unimportant to Save Them Money
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Have you ever seen the movie "Dave"? It's a warm-hearted little comedy from 1993 about a man (Dave, played by Kevin Kline) who runs a temporary employment agency and has a side hustle of being a spot-on impersonator of the president of the United States.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 1:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sorry Carl, but the Folwell Resolution will not happen in Beaufort County, and will not be even heard.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 12:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The "anti-Folwell" bill, HB184 made it out of the Health Committee yesterday, putting it on a course to possibly become law. It is a bill that 2 sides see very differently.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2019 @ 4:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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