CALL TO ACTION
An Extraordinary Matching Challenge Grant Opportunity!
This Matching Challenge Grant Opportunity is the second most important thing to happen in the Center's history following its opening to the public in November 1998.
We thank the Windgate Foundation, a private Arkansas-based foundation, for recognizing the importance of our nonprofit mission of Sharing North Carolina’s Clay Stories, Past and Present, and giving us this amazing opportunity.
THE MATCHING CHALLENGE OPPORTUNITY
All funds raised for the Challenge, up to $400,000 a year through mid-2028 will be MATCHED, with all funds raised and matched annually going into endowments for the Center.
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We met our Year 1 (FY23-24) Match which is awesome! There is now $800,000 in endowments with the Arkansas Community Foundation benefitting the Center. The Center starts receiving needed quarterly disbursements from those endowments in mid-September 2024. There is still much work to be done to meet our Match Challenge this year (FY2024-25) and the next several years, so we need all the help we can get.
Why is this needed? To ensure LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY.
Throughout its existence, the nonprofit North Carolina Pottery Center (EIN 56-1765000) has always relied heavily, frankly too heavily, on grant funding to help support its normal operational expenses.
Such a continual heavy reliance on grant funding isn't healthy for an organization’s longevity or its people, and it hinders the ability of the organization, in this case, the Center, to grow and best fulfill its mission.
Why is this important? Because it is a TRANSFORMATIONAL OPPORTUNITY.
Because the endowment will help to provide Long-Term Sustainability for the Center.
Because every gift to the endowment is more than a singular gift. Endowments grow over time meaning your contribution will continue to grow and give back each year.
By decreasing reliance on grant funding for normal operational expenses through annual funds provided by the endowment, we will be able to more clearly and fully focus on fulfilling our mission, making the Center an even more engaging place where people of diverse backgrounds, ages, and interests can discover and experience captivating changing exhibits and shows (both historical and contemporary), guided tours and demos, our annual educational conference for potters, hands-on educational programming, and more…
It's only an Opportunity though until WE, TOGETHER, make it Reality.
And, we would love to have YOUR help making it Reality.
How can YOU help?
Make a 100% tax-deductible donation online now (click here) as part of our CALL TO ACTION.
Make a 100% tax-deductible donation online (click here) that recurs each year.
Attend our November 10th Gala & Auction and make a 100% tax-deductible donation in person as part of our CALL TO ACTION.
Contributions may also be made in person at the Center or by check: North Carolina Pottery Center, PO BOX 531, Seagrove, NC 27341.