The meaning of Memorial Day
Memorial Day is more than just a long holiday weekend. In the Novant Health family, there is perhaps no one better suited to explain its resonance and significance than Gen. James Amos, USMC, Ret.
Category Archives: Novant Health Foundation
Finding a path forward
Around Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center, most people know Sarah Farmer. She’s a local — born and raised in Brunswick — and a nurse. When Brunswick County natives come to the hospital, they will often ask for her.
Making #CLTStrong
Since the start of the pandemic, Caroline Elliott has raised more than $85,000 to feed front-line workers in the fight against COVID-19. It’s a campaign that has taken on a life of its own since its launch back in March, gaining momentum, attracting volunteers and making an impact.
Charting a new path forward
Back in February, well before the COVID-19 pandemic created our strange, new reality, Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center Foundation hosted a disco party.
‘Our humanity is being challenged’
A decade before the COVID-19 crisis, Alex Funderburg, chair of the board for the Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Foundation, found himself on the front lines of a different and much more personal healthcare battle.
The story of ‘sweet baby Luke’
His name was Luke, but more often than not, his family didn’t call him that. The 1-year-old boy with the infectious smile and joyful personality was better known as “sweet baby Luke.”
‘We’re beating this’
It sounded like a burglar alarm.
Cindy Little was at her former church in Charleston, South Carolina, when she heard it. She wasn’t sure where it was coming from, but she knew something was up.
Finding purpose in a pandemic
The patient couldn’t breathe. He had come into the emergency room still able to speak. Then, all of a sudden, he was slipping in and out of consciousness. It all felt like a dream. But somewhere in that dream, he knew Amanda Chilton would do whatever it took to save him.
Right place, wrong job
Debbie Daniels has been part of Novant Health since she was 16 years old. She started in accounts payable. Her mom worked in that department and helped get Daniels a part-time job that she kept through high school and as she went off to college at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Infection prevention in the time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic may have taken the world by storm in 2020, but Heather Ridge has been preparing for this moment her entire career.
Funding Highlights
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$10,684,263
Presbyterian Medical Center Foundation
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$223,357
Brunswick Medical Center Foundation
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$376,867
Thomasville Medical Center Foundation
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$3,113,153
Forsyth Medical Center Foundation
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$2,610,643
Rowan Medical Center Foundation
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$2,223,588
New Hanover Regional Medical Center Foundation
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$6,737,196
Grants
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$1,053,827
System Initiatives
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$27,022,894
Total Giving
- * 2023 Data