Pope Foundation Adds Four New Charities to Grant Cycle

As part of its December cycle of grants to community charities, schools, churches, and the arts, the Pope Foundation has added four new grantees:

• ($25,000) SECU Family House at UNC Hospitals: Provides housing, healing, and hope to families with an adult patient being treated for a critical illness or injury at UNC Hospitals or its affiliated clinics.

• ($5,000) The Green Chair Project: Accepts gently used furniture and household items and re-sells them at a significant markdown to the working poor. Families benefit, and so does the environment because furniture that otherwise might end up in a landfill is reused.

• ($5,000) Helping Horse Therapeutic Riding Program: Provides horseback riding lessons for special-needs children. Therapeutic horseback riding has proven physical, mental, and psychological benefits for individuals with disabilities.

• ($5,000) Miracle League of the Triangle: Offers an opportunity for special-needs children to play baseball.