DONATIONS

The George Moses Horton Celebration Project will gladly accept donations. Donations will be used to fund artist’s residencies, performances, and other events to celebrate the life of George Moses Horton.

Send your tax deductible checks to:
CCAC HORTON PROJECT
PO Box 418
Pittsboro, NC 27312

Please help us match a $2500 challenge grant from R.B. Fitch of Fearrington Creations. Thank you, R.B.!

To volunteer in the celebration, please e-mail us at: HortonProject@yahoo.com 


Thanks to Supporters of the Horton Project 2000! 

Advisory Council

Doris Betts, Professor, UNC English Department

Phillip Cates, Director, Chatham Education Foundation

Geraldine DeGraffenreidt, President, Chatham County Black Historical Society

Tommy Edwards, Chatham County Arts Council Board

Marjorie Freeman, Retired Educator, Artist

Rev. Monroe Freeman, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church

Jaki Shelton Green, Poet and Educator

Mary Harris, Minority Affairs, Chatham County Schools

Trudier Harris, George Moses Horton Society

Mary Lee Moore, Chatham County Media Coordinator

Margaret Pollard, Chatham County Commissioner

Jane Pyle, Chatham County Historical Association Board

Dee Reid, Media Specialist

Louis D. Rubin,  Jr., UNC English Department, Emeritus

Ann Stewart, Director, Chatham Reading Association

Charles Thompson, Duke Documentary Studies

 

Funders and Community Partners:

The Ba’hais of Chatham County

Carolina Speakers, UNC-Chapel Hill

CCB Bank

The Chapel Hill Historical Society

The Chatham County Black Historical Society

The Chatham County Council on Aging

The Chatham County Education Foundation

The Chatham County Historical Association

The Chatham County Travel & Tourism Board

The Chatham County School Board

The Chatham Heritage Trail Project

The Corbett Family

The Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill

Edwards Antiques

R. B. Fitch, Fitch Creations

The Folklore Curriculum, UNC-Chapel Hill

Friends of the Pittsboro Memorial Library

The General Store Cafe

The George Moses Horton Society for Study of African American Poetry

Goodnight Gracie’s

The North Carolina Episcopal Diocese

The North Carolina Humanities Council

The Paul Green Foundation

Heartwood Realty

The Pittsboro Memorial Library

Efrain Ramirez

Scott Family Fund

Triangle Community Foundation

The University of North Carolina Press

Weaver Street Realty, Pittsboro Office

West Chatham NAACP

The Wren Foundation


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