Greenbridge donates $5K to local nonprofits

FROM STAFF WRITER JESSE JAMES DECONTO:

At a pizza lunch celebrating the framing of the top story of its downtown Chapel Hill project, Greenbridge Developments announced $5,000 in donations today to two local nonprofits.

Half goes to Mama Dip’s Share the Love Fund, which helps Northside and Pine Knolls children and youth pay for extracurricular activities like camps and music lessons.

“This area is about the young people, so thank you, thank you so much,” said Mildred “Mama Dip” Council, who recently turned 80.

The other half goes to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Orange toward its efforts to open a new facility in the Pine Knolls neighborhood.

“This is just the beginning of a series of engagements between Greenbridge and the community,” said partner Tim Toben.

The developers have come under fire from some local black leaders and the student group United with the Northside Community Now for not doing more to help the surrounding neighborhoods.

Greenbridge partner Michael Cucchiara said the developers will ask every resident in the 98 condos to contribute to neighborhood nonprofits.

“We hope all of them contribute and it doubles and triples,” he said.