The Committee for Promoting Change, a group of 10 undergraduates enrolled in a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill philanthropy course, awarded two grants of $1,500 each to the Literacy Council of Union County and Western North Carolina Workers’ Center.
The Committee for Promoting Change, a group of 10 undergraduates enrolled in a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill philanthropy course, awarded two grants of $1,500 each to the Literacy Council of Union County and Western North Carolina Workers’ Center.
“Promoting Change through the Nonprofit Sector” is a one credit hour, pass/fail course offered by the Carolina Center for Public Service’s Public Service Scholars program. Students researched community need, managed a donor-advised gift fund, designed grant award criteria, solicited grant proposals and decided on recipient nonprofit agencies.
Of the 22 applications received, the committee chose the winners of the two grants based on their own criteria, giving preference to proposals with sustainable programs, collaboration and a focus area of health and education within the immigrant population.
The grant funds provided by Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund will support leadership training for poultry workers at the Tyson plant in Wilkesboro and a health-focused English as a Second Language curriculum at the Literacy Council of Union County.
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