David Stick’s Words Ring True Today

David Stick wrote, "It belongs to the people of the Outer Banks, both native and adopted. Through its designation as a public charity, it is operated in the public interest, prepared at all times to address the most pressing educational..."
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Kelly Family Fund’s Amazing Community Impact

The Kelly Family Fund is an example of how a $5,000 initial gift, coupled with investment stewardship and golf tournament proceeds over the years, grew to award nearly $380,000 in grants...
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Community Enrichment Grant Deadline is July 30

Outer Banks Community Foundation’s Community Enrichment Grants Program online applications are due by 11:59 pm on Friday, July 30. More information and a link to apply can be found at https://obcf.org/grant-deadline-july-30...
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R. Wayne Gray Memorial Scholarship Fund to Benefit COA Graduates

College of The Albemarle graduates will benefit from a new fund established by the family of R. Wayne Gray, a well-known Wanchese native, poet, historian, restaurateur, and educator...
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Disaster Relief Equipment & Supplies Replacement Grant Opportunity

The Outer Banks Community Foundation is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations that were involved in the relief and recovery operations after Hurricane Dorian...
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Recent Grants from Memorial Funds Support Key Community Needs

Memorial funds established at the Outer Banks Community Foundation years ago factored prominently in recent grant awards to local nonprofits and will help people...
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Community Foundation Announces New Leadership

The Outer Banks Community Foundation is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has voted unanimously to hire Christopher Sawin as President and Chief Executive Officer...
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Community Foundation Awards $174,900 in Scholarships

The Outer Banks Community Foundation awarded $174,900 in scholarships to 51 students this spring, helping students from across the Outer Banks achieve their educational dreams...
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Community Foundation Prepares for 2021 Hurricane Season

The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1 and runs through November. Outer Banks Community Foundation is making plans to support our community in the event of a 2021 landfalling hurricane...
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Cape Hatteras Secondary School Graduating Seniors Awarded $31,000

2021 Community Foundation scholarship recipients from Cape Hatteras High School are (clockwise from top left): Eliza Quidley, Johan Briones, Laya Barley, Maria Bradley, Andrew Austin, Laura Hooper, and Victor Caldera...
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Marine Corps Commandant General Paul “P.X.” Kelley Memorial Fund

A new fund honors General P.X. Kelley, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who served his country for 37 years rising to become Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1983 – 1987...
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Manteo High School Scholarship Recipients Announced

We congratulate 2021 Manteo High School scholarship recipients (clockwise from top left) William Harmon, Ragan Twiford, Cathryn Daniels, Wallace McCown, Hannah O’Neal...
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Melvin's Studios 2020

“Our State” Article Features Iconic Frank Stick Flat Top Cottages

The house was built in 1953, in the then-new residential area of the Town of Southern Shores. At the end of World War II, Frank Stick and two partners purchased a 2,600 acre tract of land north of Kitty Hawk for $30,000...
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First Flight High School OBCF Scholarship Recipients Announced

These happy faces are going places! More than $31,000 in first-year scholarship awards from your Community Foundation were presented at First Flight High School's Awards Night on May 17...
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Thanking Fund Establishers and Lorelei Costa for COVID-19 Grants

COVID was a ‘disaster’ few saw coming or were prepared for. Many nonprofits were faced with daunting challenges, including more requests for services, curtailed programs, cancelled fundraisers, closed offices and more. We’re going to shine a light...
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Renewable Scholarships Fund Four Years of School for Deserving Local Students

Here are four stories that describe where Community Foundation scholarship recipients are in their school careers—and on their paths through life. As you will read, renewable scholarships have made a profound difference...
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