Three Wake County organizations will use $25,000 grants to further their missions to create more racial equity in their communities. | Adobe Stock
Three Wake County organizations will use $25,000 grants to further their missions to create more racial equity in their communities. | Adobe Stock
Three Wake County nonprofits were part of 40 that received grants to promote social justice, training, policy and criminal justice reform.
The $25,000 grants come from a $1 million allocation from Duke Energy and its foundation for those specific initiatives.
"We all have a role and responsibility in advancing justice and equity," Stephen De May, Duke Energy's North Carolina president, said in a November release about the initiative. "Duke Energy is committed to creating equal opportunities for the communities we serve, and we're proud to support organizations already leading this critical work across North Carolina."
The grants for Wake County-based nonprofits went to The Justice Love Foundation, Southeast Raleigh Promise and Shaw University.
"Investments from community partners like Duke Energy Foundation allow us to continue our commitment to critical scholarship, dialogue, advocacy and practices that advance racial and social justice, with broader implications for human rights in North Carolina and beyond," Valerie Johnson, co-director of the Center for Racial and Social Justice and dean of the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities at Shaw University, said in the release.
The energy provider and its foundation committed to a three-year cycle of providing grant funding for organizations promoting social justice in addition to the $1 million the Duke allocated last August, the release said.
"Investing in race equity training is critical as we examine the roots of disparities that affect community wellness," Kia Baker, executive director of Southeast Raleigh Promise, said in the release.
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