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An organization that represents private colleges and universities in North Carolina has awarded Â鶹ÊÓƵ a grant of $20,000 to fund programs for rising first-year college students in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy, the Watson Scholarship Program and the Odyssey Scholarship Program.

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) has made a major gift to support endowment for the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy, a college-access and academic enrichment program run by Â鶹ÊÓƵ that encourages Alamance County high school students with significant financial need to earn college degrees and serve their communities.

The Alamance Foundation recently presented a $2,200 gift to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy to be used to support college visits for more than 75 Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy scholars during the summer of 2011.

Capital Bank Charitable Foundation made a $3,500 gift to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy in December to support the program's financial literacy programs for more than 120 scholars and their families.

An organization that represents private colleges in North Carolina has awarded Â鶹ÊÓƵ a grant of nearly $15,000 to fund a summer program for students about to graduate from local high schools and who make up the inaugural class of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy college access program.