Challenge! Challenge! Challenge!

Help DERC in the work of ending poverty in Durham by participating in all three of these challenges!

We Win! We WIN! WE WIN!!!!

We've Done it! Thanks to the support of all of you we have not just met, but exceeded the Steward's Fund challenge target of $35,000.

We raised $38,876.84, plus additional pledges of $1,120. This includes giving from 113 donors who were supporting DERC for the very first time!

Thank you to everyone who gave so very generously in support of the challenge! You have made a great impact in the effort to end poverty in Durham.

A Huge thank you to all the contributors who helped us put us over the top of the Steward's Fund Challenge!

A.U. Lyons

Alice F. Simmons

Anita Daniels

Anita Earls

Ann Stock

Anne Zerrilla

Annie/Howard Clement

Australia Clay

Ava Vernell Hinton

B.A. Hale

Barbara Baron

Barker French

Bebe Harris

Bernadette Watts

Betty Reid

Beverly Hughes-Cunningham

Blackwell Management Group

Bob Zozus

Brenda Howerton

Carol Bailey

Cecil Fields

Charles Bobalek

Charles Miller

Chris Doll

Cindy R Love

Cindy Yokley

Claudia C Hunter

Cole Mill Road Church of Christ Benevolence Fund

Connie V. Leeper

Cora Cole-McFadden & Earl Cole

Cynthia Mangum

Daphne C Wiggins

Darlene Covington-Brown

Darryl Graham

David & Vickie Morrow

Deutsche Bank

Dolores Gidney

Dr. Kimberly Moore

Dr. Lori R. Johnson-Payton

Drew Doll

Drew Duncan

Duke Chapel

Duke University/DARA

Durham Congregations in Action

Elizabeth Morey

Emma Devine

Evelyn Hammond

Feed My Sheep

Forrest Daniels

Gloria A Bradshaw

Gordon Whitaker

Gracie Rogers

Hattie Perry

Herman Scott

Howard M. Fitts, Jr

Ida Overton-Bailey

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church

J. Ghita Harris

Jackie Brown

Jacqueline K. Walker

James Muse

James Tabron

Jami Landerway Parker

Jane Norton

Janet D Chavis

Janis Williams

Jean & Jay Scales

Jennifer H Campbell

Jerrick L. Terry

John Cengel

Joseph Gary III

Kathleen Daniels (Verizon Wireless Matching Grant)

Katrina Miller

Keith Daniel

Kenneth Hammond

KielWasser Concepts, LLC

Kito Dawn Jones

Lannie Royster Willie

Larry and Gwen Swenberg

Linda Douglas

Linwood Bracey

Lisa Rebecca Smith

Lizzie C Hood

Lloyd Schmeidler

Lynn Henderson Harris

Marcia Owen

Margaret Brown

Margaret Sanders

Margot Pickett

Marion G Miles

Mary A. Elder

Mary Crutchfield

Mary S. Back

Mel Williams

Melva Brown

Meredith Nahm

Michael Palmer

Micheline Malson

Michelle R Terry

Monica Himes

Mt. Sylvan UMC

Nancy Stopplekamp

Natalie Gidney-Cole

North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company

Pamela A Maye

R. B. Wardlaw

Rana McCutchen Davis

Richard Rumer

Rob Wheeler

Robert and Kathleen Daniels

Saint Stephens Episcopal Church

Sandra V Wiggins

SFC (RET) Bernard R. Joyner

Sonya A Laws

St. John's Missionary Baptist Church

Stan Holt

Starmye Crutchfield

Stephanie Buie

Sue Jackson

Susan Blackmon

Susan Eastman

Tawynna Maria Gordon

Teretha Bell

Terry Lynn Rhodes

Thelma Hamilton

Thomas Bonfield

Todd D. Higginson

Triangle Community Foundation - Doris Cooper McCoy Fund

Triangle Community Foundation - The Barnabas Fund

Trudy Harris Adeeto

Twelve Labors Foundation

Union Baptist Church

Vashti Hill

Venetta Sutton-Fields

Virginia Chorley

Walltown Neighborhood Ministries

Watts Street Baptist Church

Wells Fargo

William & Susan McCraw

Winnie W. Morgan

We Won!

DERC won one of three Celebrity Choice Awards, worth $1,000.

A huge thank-you to everyone who assisted with the tree this year. Big thanks to LeChase and Jasmine for sponsoring DERC's tree, and to all the friends, alumni and trainees of DERC who came out and sang with us around the tree!