How We Help

 Some of the Ways We Volunteer Our Time and Talent

  • Bike MS volunteer greeters and bike room monitors
  • Boys & Girls Club (Tea Time, Summer Camp, After School Support)
  • Christmas gifts for Guardian Ad Litem children
  • Meals on Wheels delivery routes
  • Lions Club collect eyeglasses & hearing aids
  • Precious Purses collect handbags (women fleeing violence)
  • Religious Community Service (RCS food pantry & shelter)
  • Vial of Life distribution of kits  

Some of the Organizations Which Have Received Our Funding

Scholarships, annually

  • Craven Community College (two scholarships)
    • Students seeking to improve their life through education
    • Promising local student
  • NBWC Memorial Scholarship for a promising local high school student

Education and Children

  • Boys & Girls Club – New Bern Clubs and early reader books
  • Craven Community College student emergency fund
  • New Bern / Craven County Public Library
    • Friends of the Library
  • Ben D. Quinn PTO family support after hurricane Florence
  • JT Barber Elementary radios for school bus monitors

Community Outreach

  • Bike MS banner
  • Craven County H.O.P.E. (end substance abuse)
  • Religious Community Service (RCS food pantry & shelter)
  • Reviving Lives Ministry (end substance abuse)
  • Salvation Army (food pantry)
  • Tried by Fire – My Sister's House (re-entry after prison)
  • True Justice (end human trafficking)

Animals

  • Colonial Capital Humane Society (animal welfare)
  • Horses of Pamlico, Etc., or HOPE
  • Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Sheriff's Office Animal Protective Services

Veterans and Service Members

  • DAV (disabled veterans)
  • Kindred Canines in Motion (healthy service animals)
  • Paws of War
  • Veterans Employment Base Camp & Organic Garden
  • Veterans Stand Down
  • Wreaths Across America

Arts, visual and performance

  • Craven Arts Council
    • Banners, supplies for art teachers, Taglieri mural 
  • Craven Concerts youth programs
    • Opera Express, band instruments, musician outreach
  • Craven County Partners in Education
  • Rivertown Players youth summer drama camp

Special Contributions in the Past

  • Boys & Girls Club
    • Furnish New Bern Teen Center
    • Relief for families after hurricane Florence
  • Coastal Center for Hope and Healing - funding to sponsor a room in their new transitional house
  • Craven County Emergency Management – funding to replenish search & rescue kits after hurricane Florence
  • Fireman's Museum – in honor and remembrance of NBWC volunteer relief efforts after New Bern's great fire of 1922
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • New Bern 300 year art bears – seed funding for insurance
  • Paint Your Heart Out
  • Union Point Gazebo Seed Money 2003
  • Union Point Spearheaded Rebuild 1931
  • Tryon Palace History Center – Family Life exhibit
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