LANDFALL FOUNDATION AWARDS 47 GRANTS TOTALING MORE THAN $108,000

WILMINGTON, NC - The Landfall Foundation today (Nov. 11, 2003) presented checks to 47 agencies to fund projects in the greater Wilmington area totaling $108,212. In its seventh year of making grants, the foundation was able to substantially exceed the $80,000 made in grants to 41 projects in 2002.

The charitable foundation was formed in 1996 to establish a community support effort specifically originating from the residents of Landfall. It allocates funds targeted to health and welfare activities, education, and the arts in Brunswick, Pender, and New Hanover counties and gives priority to organizations with low administrative overhead and high volunteer participation.

Those funded and their projects are as follows:

Arts Projects -- $22,800 Total

1. Airlie Gardens - $1,000 ? Children?s Art Plaza. (Airlie Gardens Web Site)
2. Brunswick Concert Band - $800 ? Provide Spring Concert 2004. (Brunswick Concert Band Web Site)
3. Chamber Music Society of Wilmington - $3,000 ? Educational outreach and Young Audience development. (Chamber Music Society Web Site)
4. Junior League of Wilmington - $3,000 ? Pied Piper Theater. (Junior League of Wilmington Web Site)
5. Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum -- $3,000 ? Promote African dance, drum and culture. (Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum Web Site)
6. Stageworks Youth Theater Company - $2,000 ? Provide training and experience in acting skills. (No Web Site)
7. Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. - $1,000 ? present free performance of Ballet Folkorico. (Thalian Hall Web Site)
8. Wilmington Ballet Company ? $3,000 ? Present Beauty and the Beast. (Wilmington Ballet Company Web Site)
9. Wilmington Children?s Museum -- $3,000 ? Purchase Tables for Tots. (Wilmington Children's Museum Web Site)
10. Wilmington Symphony Orchestra - $3,000 ? Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra. (Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Web Site)

Education Projects -- Total $33,562

1. Alzheimer?s Association - Eastern NC - $1,500 Caregiver Workshops. (Alzheimer's Association Web Site)
2. Cape Fear Literacy Council ?$3,000 - Books for individualized learning needs. (Cape Fear Literacy Council Web Site)
3. Cape Fear Museum - $1,800 ? Portable planetarium for 9th grade science outreach program. (Cape Fear Museum Web Site)
4. Cape Fear Eastern Area Radio Reading Service, Inc. - $3,000 ? Purchase additional receivers. (No Web Site)
5. Cape Fear River Watch Inc. ? $1,900 - Partial funding for a curriculum on ecology economics and politics of our river. (Care Fear River Watch Web Site)
6. Child Development Center - $2,000 ? Multi-sensory program for special needs children and older adults. (No Web Site)
7. Friends of Public Radio - $1,500 ? computer funding for a student intern work station. (Friends of Public Radio Web Site)
8. Girls on the Run of Cape Fear ? $1,432 - equipment for needy participants. (No Web Site)
9. Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington, Inc. - $2,000 ? computers for job searches, Education and family communication. (Good Shepherd Ministries Web Site)
10. Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington - $3,000 ? supplies for fees for woodworking program. (Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington Web Site)
11. Junior Achievement - $2,000 ? Start up program at Noble Middle School using volunteers. (Junior Achievement Web Site)
12. Lower Cape Fear Historical Society - $1,410 ? summer camp on historical Wilmington. (Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Web Site)
13. Meet Me There, Inc. - $920 - Tapes and tape recorders for interviews of senior citizens by high school students. (No Web Site)
14. New Hanover Soil and Water Conservation - $1,500 ? Watershed models which demonstrate pollution sources and prevention measures. (Soil & Water Conservation Web Site)
15. Pender County Historical Society - $800 ? interviews with World War II veterans transcribed to disks. (Pender County Web Site)
16. Stamp Defiance Chapter, DAR - $1,000 ? materials for classroom presentations. (No Web Site)
17. UNCW ? $2,800 ? Public presentations commemorating civil rights milestone Brown vs. Board of Education. (UNCW Web Site)
18. Wilmington Railroad Museum Foundation, Inc. ?$2,000 - Tours for disadvantaged groups. (Wilmington Railroad Museum Web Site)

Health and Welfare Projects -- Total $51,850

1. Amigos International - $3,000 ? Children?s Fiesta at Hugh MacRae Park. (Amigos International Web Site)
2. Boys and Girls Homes of NC, Inc. - $3,000 ? Family Foster Care Recruitment in New Hanover County. (Boys and Girls Homes of NC Web Site)
3. Cape Fear Community College - $3,000 ? Clean and treat teeth of 50 economically disadvantaged students. (Cape Fear Community College Web Site)
4. Coastal Adult Day Care - $1,500 ? Purchase chairs for activity/dining room. (Coastal Adult Day Care Web Site)
5. Domestic Violence Shelter - $3,000 ? Support group program. (Domestic Violence Shelter Web Site)
6. Family Services of the Lower Cape Fear?s Big Buddy Program - $2,100 ? increase awareness of Big Buddy Program. (Family Services of the Lower Cape Fear Web Site)
7. Girls Inc. of Wilmington - $3,000 ? educate high-risk girls in preventing pregnancy. (No Web Site)
8. Guardian ad Litem Association, Inc. - $3,000 ? enrichment for foster children. (No Web Site)
9. Lower Cape Fear Hospice - $3,000 ? Art therapy for Hospice patients and their families. (Lower Cape Fear Hospice Web Site)
10. Navassa Volunteer Fire Department - $2,800 ? pagers for volunteer firemen. (Navassa Volunteer Fire Department Web Site)
11. New Hanover County Cooperative Extension Arboretum Foundation - $3,000 ? Ability Garden. (New Hanover County Arboretum Web Site)
12. Parents Community Preschool - $3,000 ? install proper drainage. (No Web Site)
13. Phoenix Employment Service - $3,000 ? helping impoverished people find work. (No Web Site)
14. Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc. 3,000 ? Breast cancer screening for young women. (Planned Parenthood Health Systems Web Site)
15. Soccer Academy of Wilmington, Inc. - $2,250 ? soccer balls for kids affiliated with Brigade Boys and Girls Club of Wilmington. (No Web Site)
16. Special Olympics North Carolina New Hanover ? $3,000 ? increase participants for summer camp and Fall Games. (Special Olympics North Carolina Web Site)
17. Tileston Outreach Health Clinic - $3,000 ? Provide medications for Pharmacy. (Tileston Outreach Health Clinic Web Site)
18. Yahweh Center Children?s Village - $ 3,000 ? Furniture for Adoption and Readiness Cottage. (Yahweh Center Web Site)
19. YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear, Inc. - $1,200 ? Swim lessons for disadvantaged youth. (National YWCA Web Site