Through our strategic emphasis on early childhood and other emerging issues, we seek to continuously adapt to meet today’s challenges, even as we honor our founder’s mandate.
Additional Focus Grantmaking by Strategy
Zero To Eight Place-Based
$52,700,000The Duke Endowment is focusing on early childhood as a way to produce greater impact across our grantmaking and provide for better and more equal opportunity for children and families. We believe this emphasis on prenatal to age 8 promises a more effective approach to addressing the issues that confront our communities today.
Disaster
$14,550,000The Duke Endowment, as part of its mission to improve life in the Carolinas, provides assistance to communities in North Carolina and South Carolina in the wake of major natural disasters.
Other
$9,260,000The Duke Endowment makes additional investments beyond its grantmaking program areas in order to respond and adapt to meet changing needs.