New Fund for Hatteras Island Will Help Local Charities

A local family has established a new, perpetual charitable fund at the Outer Banks Community Foundation to aid benevolent projects and help meet urgent needs on Hatteras Island for generations to come...
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Community Foundation Honors Founders at Annual Meeting

At its 34th Annual Meeting on Feb. 18, the Outer Banks Community Foundation celebrated a record-breaking year in grants and scholarships, and thanked two of its founders, Ray White and Eddie Greene, with Champion Awards...
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Now Accepting Applications For Aviation Education Grants

The Outer Banks Community Foundation is now accepting applications for the Aviation Education Grant Program. Applications are due on Friday, April 29, and prospective applicants should contact the Community Foundation before applying...
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Community Foundation Accepting Scholarship Applications

Our scholarship deadline has now passed. The application deadline was 11:59 pm on Sunday, March 27. The Community Foundation manages 45 scholarship programs and awarded over $155,000 last year to over 90 local students...
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Local Nonprofits Invited to OBX Town Hall Meeting

Join the NC Center for Nonprofits, Outer Banks Community Foundation, and Outer Banks Community Services Collaborative on Friday, March 18 for a Nonprofit Town Hall meeting to get a preview of major trends, threats, and opportunities for nonprofits in 2016...
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Community Foundation Announces Two Free Seminars for Nonprofits

Registration is now closed for two free nonprofit seminars on Tuesday, March 8 at the UNC Coastal Studies Institute -- a morning session on volunteer engagement, and an afternoon session on great practices of effective boards...
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OBCF Announces Grant Deadlines, Criteria, and New Year’s Resolutions

The Outer Banks Community Foundation has announced its 2016 grant application deadlines (the first one of the year is Friday, February 5), along with new initiatives to help and support local nonprofits...
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Local Couple Establishes Charitable Endowment in Memory of their Mothers

Ron and Tiney Curtis have a tradition. Whenever a family member, neighbor, or friend falls upon hard times, they slip that person an envelope...
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Giving Circle Announces $8,500 in Grants

Outer Banks Giving for Good Giving Circle is pleased to announce its charitable gifts for 2015, beginning with its largest single donation to date, a $5,000 gift to Food for Thought...
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Interfaith Establishes Endowment at OBCF to Help Outer Banks Forever

Interfaith Community Outreach has established a new charitable endowment with the Outer Banks Community Foundation to provide a permanent source of funding to “bridge the gap” for the working class poor...
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OBCF Awards $600,000 in 2015; Raising Funds to Do More in 2016

Ending another record-breaking year, the Outer Banks Community Foundation announced over $600,000 in grants and scholarships in 2015, including $60,000 in new grants earlier this month...
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Community Foundation Celebrates Giving Tuesday

The Outer Banks Community Foundation is celebrating Giving Tuesday by encouraging our generous community to give back to the nonprofits and causes they love...
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Last Chance to Register for Oct. 16 Nonprofit Training

It’s your last chance to register for the Outer Banks Community Foundation’s strategic planning workshop being held on October 16! If you’re a board or staff member of a local charity, this training is for you...
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Frank Tate Fund Established for the Manteo High School Band

The Manteo High School Band is getting new help next year, in memory of a young clarinetist whose life was enriched by his band experience...
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Fred Murray Fund to Help Families with Cancer

Fred Murray’s legacy of kindness has been memorialized in a new charitable endowment. Established by his family with the Outer Banks Community Foundation, the Fred Murray Memorial Fund will serve as a perpetual funding source to help people from the Outer Banks who are struggling with cancer...
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Community Foundation Awards $40,000 in Grants

The Community Foundation awarded more than $40,000 in grants yesterday to 16 local nonprofits. The grants will assist with a wide range of charitable needs, from volunteer fire departments to animal rescue, children and youth to seniors and elders, outdoor education to food assistance for the needy...
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