Late last year, the New Hanover County Community Endowment distributed roughly $9 million dollars in grants. Now, CEO William Buster is looking ahead to bigger things, and some bigger challenges, including the persistent, thorny issue of the endowment’s focus on New Hanover County, to the exclusion of its neighbors.
Displaced residents from the Wilmington Housing Authority have been waiting for their homes to be mold-free for more than a year now. WHQR sat down with recently appointed Executive Director Tyrone Garrett for an update.
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NEW HANOVER COUNTY — New Hanover County is hiring a small team of case managers to support and advocate for families displaced by Wilmington Housing Authority’s…
This article is contributed by Derek Macleod, Director of the New Hanover Disaster Coalition.
What is this and do we even need it? I heard those questions a lot in the early days post Hurricane Florence. Faith leaders, non profits and government agencies were all mobilizing, often scrambling, to respond to the challenges that the historic Florence rained upon New Hanover County in 2018. What was missing was a mechanism that centralized information and efforts to help us all respond efficiently without the most vulnerable falling through the cracks. Out of that need, our long term recovery group (LTRG), New Hanover Disaster Coalition, was born then baptized by fire. We didn’t invent anything new, LTRGs are found in counties all across the country. New Hanover County just didn’t have one. We weren’t sure we needed one. Don’t we have several hundred organizations all working to respond to our residents? Do we really need more meetings, acronyms, boards, funding req