Earmarks: North Carolina

Here are the earmarks identified for North Carolina, which total $12,000,000. Check out the earmarks for your state and then call your congressman and ask if he or she sponsored any of your state's earmarks. If the answer is yes, ask why the congressman's name isn't on the earmark. If you recognize the institution designated to receive the earmarked tax dollars, call them and ask them what they intend to do with your money.

Then email us at info@examiner.com with the subject line "Earmarks" and tell us what you found out.

Amount City Description
$1,250,000 Asheville Mission Hospitals for facilities and equipment
$500,000 Hendersonville Henderson County Hospital Corporation, for facilities and equipment at Pardee Hospital
$400,000 Clyde Haywood Regional Medical Center, for facilities and equipment
$400,000 Buies Creek Campbell University for its School of Pharmacy
$350,000 Sylva West Care Health Systems for facilities and equipment
$350,000 Greensboro Bennett College for Women for technology improvements and professional development
$300,000 Mecklenburg County Mecklenburg Domestic Violence Shelter for equipment
$300,000 Greensboro North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University, for a project to reduce suspension rates or minority students in the Guilford County School System
$300,000 Yadkinville Hoots Memorial Hospital, for technology upgrades
$300,000 Dallas Gaston College, for equipment for the Health Education Institute
$300,000 Charlotte Carolinas Medical Center for facilities and equipment for the Department of Nursing Simulated Patient Care Lab
$300,000 Plymouth Washington County for facilities and equipment for the Washington County Hospital
$300,000 Wilmington University of North Carolina at Wilmington for an assistive technology center for develop equipment and techniques to improve educational and employment opportunities for students with disabilities
$250,000 Morganton Western Piedmont Community College Allied Health Program for equipment
$250,000 Fayetteville Methodist College for facilities and equipment for training physicians assistants
$250,000 Roxboro Person Memorial Hospital for facilities and equipment
$250,000 Rutherfordton Rutherford Hospital, Inc., for facilities and equipment
$250,000 Southern Pines St. Joseph of the Pines for facilities and equipment
$250,000 Brevard Transylvania Community Hospital for facilities and equipment
$250,000 Greenville East Carolina University Metabolic Institute, for facilities and equipment
$250,000 Snow Hill Greene County Health Care, for facilities and equipment for the James D. Bernstein Community Healthcare Center in Greenville
$250,000 Marion Hospice of McDowell County, Inc., for facilities and equipment
$250,000 Fayetteville Fayetteville Technical Community College, for the Congressional Scholars Program
$250,000 Charlotte Central Piedmont Community College for curriculum development at the Center for Integrated Emergency Response Training
$240,000 Durham Lincoln Community Health Center, for facilities and equipment
$240,000 Durham North Carolina Central University for a biomanufacturing training program
$240,000 Raleigh Wake County for facilities and equipment for a mental health facility
$200,000 Asheboro North Carolina Zoological Park for exhibits
$200,000 Laurinburg Scotland Memorial Hospital for facilities and equipment
$200,000 Sparta Alleghany Memorial Hospital for an electronic medical records system
$200,000 Charlotte City of Charlotte, for facilities and equipment for the Advanced Local Emergency Response Team (ALERT)
$200,000 Chapel Hill All Kinds of Minds, for teacher training
$200,000 Monroe Union County Public Schools for the North Carolina Central Academy of Technology and Arts
$200,000 Salisbury Livingstone College for teacher training, and for science and math academic services and mentoring for minority students
$200,000 Hamlet Richmond Community College for equipment and programs at Richmond Industrial Training Center
$150,000 Hickory North Carolina Center for Engineering Technologies for engineering, applied science and management education programs
$150,000 Hudson Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute for the Teacher Training Center
$150,000 Raleigh North Carolina Technology Association Education Foundation, for school technology demonstration projects
$150,000 Burlington Alamance-Burlington School District, for the Teacher Professional Development Academy for curriculum and materials
$150,000 Raleigh WakeMed Health and Hospitals for pediatric diabetes education and prevention activities
$150,000 Mecklenburg County Mecklenburg County Domestic Violence Initiative
$140,000 Raleigh WakeMed Health and Hospitals for health information technology
$140,000 Durham Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Foundation, for a demonstration program to improve assistance to family caregivers
$100,000 Hickory Hickory Metropolitan Higher Education Center for technology upgrades
$100,000 Greenville James D. Bernstein Community Health Center, for facilities and equipment
$100,000 Raeford Hoke County Schools, for instructional technology
$100,000 Raleigh Triangle Urban League for its National Achievers' Society program

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