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🌍🧵 CELEBRATE CULTURE. HONOR HERITAGE. CREATE COMMUNITY. 🧵🌍 The West End Community Foundation, Inc. is excited to invite you to our Fall Fundraiser 2026: “A World of Culture, A Night of Impact!” This year, we’re bringing the community together through food, music, culture, art, and quilting with our special exhibition: ✨ THREADS ACROSS THE DIASPORA ✨ This beautiful quilting exhibition features works from Liberia, the African-American Quilters Circle, and local quilters, celebrating quilting as a powerful expression of creativity, memory, culture, and heritage. 🧵 QUILTING EXHIBITION 📅 September 24 – October 4, 2026 📍 Community Family Life & Recreation Center at Lyon Park Available during regular business hours 🎉 SPECIAL VIEWING & FALL FUNDRAISER 📅 Friday, October 2, 2026 🕕 Doors Open: 6 PM (Silent Auction Items and Viewing of Quilts) 🎟️ Fundraiser: 7–9 PM 📍 Community Family Life & Recreation Center at Lyon Park 🌎 FEATURING: 🍽️ International bites 🎶 Cultural performances 🧵 Threads Across the Diaspora quilting exhibit 🤝 Community connection 🎁 Silent auction ❤️ An opportunity to support WECF’s programs and the community we serve 🎟️ Tickets are FREE — donations are welcome! Register HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wecf-fall-fundraiser-2026-a-world-of-culture-a-night-of-impact-tickets-1997054279108?aff=oddtdtcreator Donate HERE: https://thewecf.org/fundraising/ Your support helps us sustain programs, serve families, and build a stronger West End and Durham community. Come for the culture. Stay for the community. Leave inspired by the threads that connect us all. ❤️🧵🌍 #WECF #FallFundraiser2026 #ThreadsAcrossTheDiaspora #QuiltingExhibition #LocalQuilters #AfricanDiaspora #CelebrateCulture #CreateCommunity #DurhamNC #WestEndDurham #CommunityImpact #SupportLocalNonprofits #ACultureOfCommunity

🌯 Support West End Community Foundation at Chipotle! 🌯 Looking for dinner plans? Make them count! Join us for our Chipotle Fundraiser and help support the programs and services that strengthen our community. When you order from Chipotle during our fundraiser, 25% of event sales will be donated to the West End Community Foundation, Inc. 📅 Tuesday, July 21 🕔 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM 📍 Chipotle 2115 E NC 54, Durham, NC 27713 🌯 Ordering online for pickup? Use code: 42P628Y 📄 Dining in? Simply show this flyer when you place your order. Every meal purchased helps support educational programs, youth development, wellness initiatives, and community services at the Community Family Life & Recreation Center at Lyon Park. Invite your family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors to join us. Together, we can enjoy great food while making a meaningful investment in our community. ❤️ Thank you for supporting the West End Community Foundation! #WestEndCommunityFoundation #WECF #DurhamNC #ChipotleFundraiser #SupportLocal #CommunityStartsHere #FUNdraiser #GiveBack #EatForACause

☀️🍽️ Summer Café is Open! 🍽️☀️ Looking for a free, nutritious meal this summer? Join us at the Community Family Life & Recreation Center at Lyon Park for our Summer Café Program, open to all children and teens in the community! 🥞 Breakfast: 7:45 AM – 8:45 AM 🥪 Lunch: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM 📍 Community Family Life & Recreation Center at Lyon Park 1309 Halley Street Durham, NC 27707 No registration required...just stop by and enjoy a healthy meal in a welcoming environment. Help us spread the word so every child in our community has access to nutritious food this summer! #SummerCafe #SummerMeals #WestEndCommunityFoundation #DurhamNC #LyonPark #FeedingOurCommunity #HealthyKidsHealthyCommunities #SummerNutrition #CommunityStrong ☀️💚🍎

For over 20 years, the West End Community Foundation has collaborated with the City of Durham and DPR to support the West End community through the Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park. In 2025 alone, through the power of partnership with our tenants and community organizations, we served 43,803+ Durham residents through youth programs, wellness initiatives, food assistance, and community-centered services. We recently received notice of a proposed budget recommendation that would end this partnership and terminate our lease agreement with DPR. Our center is more than a building; it is a vital community hub for West End families and residents. A CALL TO ACTION! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! ACTION 1 — Email Durham City Council Send an email to the Durham City Council urging them to restore funding for the Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park in the FY 2026–2027 budget. ACTION 2 — Show Up at the Budget Hearing Your presence is powerful, even if you don't speak. Date & Time: Monday, June 1, 2026, at 7:00 PM Location: Durham City Council Chambers 101 City Hall Plaza, Durham, NC 27701 ACTION 3 — Support by Donating Your financial support helps ensure that the West End Community Foundation can continue its work, regardless of what happens to the City's budget. Donate online: https://thewecf.org/fundraising/ #WestEndStrong #DurhamNC #CommunityMatters

Operation Spring Break Food Program complete! Thanks to our partners Bagging it 4 Kids, the WECF Board of Directors and hard working staff, we were able to fill 125 bags with nutritious snacks and easy-to-make meals for youth and families that visit the Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park! #CommunityScholarsAfterschoolProgram #FightingforFoodJustice #WECF #Baggingit4Kids

This holiday season, we pause to celebrate what we have accomplished together. Thanks to your partnership and support, The West End Community Foundation continued to serve as a hub of opportunity, uplifting youth through education, supporting families through food access and wellness programs, and creating spaces where community can truly thrive. Your belief in our work strengthens not only our programs, but the people and neighborhoods we serve every day. We are honored to be in community with you and look forward to deepening our impact together in the year ahead. Wishing you a season filled with joy, reflection, and renewed hope. ❄✨💫

This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to join us in our work of community care, empowerment, and hope. At The West End Community Foundation, every day we: ==> nurture young leaders through our after-school and summer programs, ==> support families with free food markets and essential resources, ==> create safe spaces for wellness, learning, and belonging, and ==> honor the legacy of the West End by investing in its future. Your Giving Tuesday contribution directly supports these programs and helps us continue to show up with compassion and purpose. Donate at https://thewecf.org/fundraising/

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