The New Hanover Community Endowment is preparing to award its inaugural round of grants next month.  Formed by the multi-billion sale of New Hanover Regional Medical Center to Novant Health last year, the nonprofit New Hanover Community Endowment has spent the year formalizing as an organization.  President and CEO William Buster, who began his role in Marc ...

An organization that repairs and rebuilds houses for those in need is getting a new home of its own. WARM, the Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc., is relocating its headquarters and renting office space at 909 Market St. in Wilmington's Soda Pop District, according to a news release. WARM is also renting a 4,000-square-foot workshop on the same ...

The New Hanover Community Endowment has partnered with investment firm BlackRock to manage its financial portfolio, created by last year’s sale of New Hanover Regional Medical Center to Novant Health.  As one of the largest legacy health foundations in the nation, the New Hanover Community Endowment is tasked with growing its value over time, which started at ...

A nonprofit that serves area schools is celebrating its next chapter. Communities In Schools of Cape Fear has moved to a new Wilmington headquarters location, 1209 Market St., which is at least three times larger than its previous spot at The Harrelson Center on North Fourth Street. "The larger facility will provide our New Hanover County staff the space they ne ...

Nonprofit employment organization StepUp Wilmington has moved to a bigger office with opportunities to grow. StepUp now occupies the 3,800-square-foot, two-story building at 621 N. Fourth St., after relocating from about 2,000 square feet in The Harrelson Center, 20 N. Fourth St. "We wanted our own standalone space with street-front access so our candidates coul ...

The organizers of Work on Wilmington (WOW), an annual day of service that brings together hundreds of volunteers to simultaneously complete service projects across the city, are seeking projects to work on from nonprofit organizations. Organized by Leadership Wilmington, a civic leadership development program of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce Foundation, WOW is a fo ...

United Way of the Cape Fear Area recently moved to downtown Wilmington from Oleander Drive. The nonprofit organization, which raises money to support other nonprofits with an emphasis on health, financial stability and education, is now located at 127 Grace St.  Moving the organization downtown is something CEO Tommy Taylor has been wanting to do for several yea ...

The New Hanover Community Endowment will be announcing grant criteria for its initial grantmaking round during a public session in August. The endowment was launched with $1.25 billion in proceeds from the sale of New Hanover Regional Medical Center by New Hanover County to Novant Health, a deal that closed last year. As of Nov. 5, the total stood at $1.29 billion, acco ...

The inaugural members of the Community Advisory Council that will help New Hanover Community Endowment’s board of directors and staff in decision- and grant-making have been announced.   In a news release Thursday, the nonprofit foundation said the 18 inaugural members of the council, who represent a cross-section of occupations, areas of expertise and demogra ...

Late last month, Wilmington Downtown Inc. accepted the resignation of its president and CEO Holly Childs, effective immediately. Childs had spent 16 months at the helm of the organization, which shifted its focus to economic development to coincide with her hiring.  That redirection – which WDI Chairwoman and New Hanover County commissioner Deb Hays ...