Initiatives
Our strategic shift from grantmaking to changemaking, in addition to giving rise to Funding Areas and Funding Priorities within both divisions, is reflected in our support of initiatives that leverage local, state, and national resources to achieve greater impact.
Since 2008, the Trust has made significant investments in initiatives designed to have measurable impact on the quality of life and quality of health of North Carolinians, especially young North Carolinians. Several of the initiatives build on the knowledge, experience, and best practices of other foundations from various regions of the country. Through partnerships and collaborations with these organizations, the Trust has increased its level of expertise in certain service areas and anticipates greater impact from the dollars invested in joint programming.
Fidelity to our mission of improving the quality of life and health of financially needy North Carolinians necessitates addressing poverty and health care issues through a variety of strategies. To that end the Trust
- Awarded Capacity Building grants aimed at strengthening organizational effectiveness through support activities ranging from consultant services to technology upgrades
- Funded second round Healthy Carolinians Partnership collaborations seeking to impact communities' particular health and safety concerns by leveraging local resources
- Implemented the North Carolina Community Aids Fund in partnership with other state funders, in addition to funding a variety of individual HIV/AIDS prevention and care measures, has increased statewide coordination and capacity of agencies that provide HIV/AIDS programming
- Collaborated with state funders to implement the national Nurse-Family Partnership program for the benefit of low-income first-time mothers in North Carolina
- Established Reclaiming Futures in North Carolina to provide support to teens in the juvenile justice system and to address the variety of mental health and social issues both underlying and stemming from juveniles' involvement in crime in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation