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hosted its annual breakfast virtually on June 8. Participants picked up breakfast kits that included treats from Ninth Street Bakery and coffee from Beyu Caffe. Housing for New Hope Board Chair Sarah Meiners spoke and thanked the nonprofit’s employees, volunteers and supporters. Executive Director Russell Pierce gave an overview of the nonprofit’s work over the past year, including the renewal of the Street Outreach Program in partnership with the City of Durham and Durham County – last year the program reached and built relationships with 133 unsheltered neighbors, with the goal of connecting them to shelter and/or permanent housing. Durham City Council member Pierce Freelon discussed the goals of the city’s $95 million affordable housing bond, which include building 1,800 new affordable housing units, preserving 800 rental units, moving 1,700 homeless people into permanent housing and stabilizing about 2,500 low-income renters. The virtual program wrapped up with an announcement about a plot of land the organization recently acquired in East Durham, which will be used to further the goal of ending homelessness in the area by building affordable housing on the land. Housing for New Hope
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Executive Director Russell Pierce, Housing for New Hope Board Chair Sarah Meiners and Housing for New Hope Board Member Jarvis Martin. 2 Durham City Council member Pierce Freelon.
Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon:
Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society October 8, 2021– January 9, 2022
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 101 S. Columbia St. at Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC 27514 919-966-5736 | ackland.org Made in India, Tamil Nadu, Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Shiva Nataraja), Chola period, ca. 970, Copper alloy, Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.20, Photography Synthescape, Courtesy of Asia Society and American Federation of Arts.
This exhibition is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Asia Society Museum.
The Ackland gratefully acknowledges Bank of America for major support of the Ackland’s presentation of Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society. Additional funding comes from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Ackland’s Ruth and Sherman Lee Fund for Asian Art, and Betsy Blackwell and John Watson.
The national tour of the exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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