The Duke Endowment aims to support communities in North Carolina and South Carolina by nurturing children, promoting health, educating minds, and enriching spirits. It focuses on improving health over time through promoting healthy lifestyles and ensuring access to essential healthcare services. The Endowment is dedicated to addressing and reducing health inequities exacerbated by factors including race, income, and geographic location.
The Child and Family Well-Being program area by The Duke Endowment focuses on supporting public and private child- and family-serving agencies in adopting and sustaining evidence-based and evidence-informed programs aimed at preventing or treating child maltreatment. This grant program emphasizes the need for adequate implementation support and continuous improvement to replicate the success of evidence-based programs at the community level. It adopts an implementation framework developed by the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of these programs, targeting the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. The program encourages innovation by supporting the development and testing of new, data-driven approaches tailored to the diverse needs and populations served, including attention to racial and ethnic variations. Additionally, it supports advocacy and communication strategies to improve the child welfare system, aiming to facilitate the spread of information and improve services for families and children across all races and ethnicities.