The Duke Endowment aims to support communities in North Carolina and South Carolina by nurturing children, promoting health, educating minds, and enriching spirits. It focuses on improving health over time through promoting healthy lifestyles and ensuring access to essential healthcare services. The Endowment is dedicated to addressing and reducing health inequities exacerbated by factors including race, income, and geographic location.
The grant focuses on preserving and enhancing the cultural heritage and community contributions of United Methodist Churches in rural North Carolina amidst changing demographics. This initiative collaborates closely with local church leaders, congregations, the North Carolina and Western North Carolina conferences of the United Methodist Church, and Duke Divinity School. The broad goals include supporting pastoral leaders, reimagining church real estate for community-focused ministry, building congregational capacity, and identifying and testing selected programs with an emphasis on children. The strategies aim to recruit and retain clergy, nurture their growth, optimize church assets for community benefit, and foster church-community connections to address demographic and economic shifts with an equitable, safety, and potential-reaching approach for all community members.
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