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Brandy Chieco

A Constant Presence

In 2016, Duke employee Brandy Chieco was a new mom with a three-month-old baby boy when her own mom, Brenda Brooks, was diagnosed with synovial...

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Donna Bernstein

Donna Bernstein’s generosity touches lives across continents...

As far back as Donna Bernstein can remember, the ethos of giving back has been as much a part of her as her name or the color of her eyes. She comes...

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Teenage girl in library with book open, but looking away into the distance

$1M Gift Will Establish ADHD Center for Girls and Women

An anonymous family’s generosity will enable Duke University School of Medicine to establish one of the nation’s only programs dedicated specifically...

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Nearly New Shoppe sign hanging above store entrance

Nearly New Shoppe Closes Its Doors

After more than half a century and millions of dollars raised to support student scholarships in the Duke University School of Medicine and School of...

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Ross Harris

Don’t Let Cancer Win

In 1983, Duke University alumnus Ross Harris, had just lost her younger brother, Carlton Harris Jr., to leukemia. He was only 25.

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Linda Haller of the Haller Foundation

$2.2 Million Haller Foundation Gift to Benefit Kidney...

Haller, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says the journey leading up to and after her adult daughter’s kidney transplant in 2017 was at times difficult...

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John and Andrea Pitera, the previous owners of Mojo’s on the Harbor, removing money from the restaurant ceiling

A One-Dollar Bill Leads to Almost $20,000 for Pancreatic...

A one-dollar bill started it all. In 2011, John and Andrea Pitera had just opened Mojo’s on the Harbor. Brooke Williams, their very first customer...

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