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RALEIGH - More than half of the nonprofit organizations required to account for how they spent millions in state dollars last year had failed to do so by March 31, according to an analysis by the state auditor's office. (snip) North Carolina awarded $580 million in grants last year to 3,000 nonprofit groups. More than 1,800 of those groups received a big enough check from the state that that they are required to file financial reports or audits, but auditors won't know how it was all spent for another year.

Project Homestead backers rail against media GREENSBORO — A group of prominent black leaders and politicians warned Monday that Project Homestead will collapse unless the News & Record ends its “negative publicity” of the nonprofit, low-income housing builder. “It is virtually impossible for Project Homestead to continue to operate in this climate,” said state Rep. Alma Adams, a Greensboro Democrat who led the press conference held by the “Friends of Project Homestead” at Homestead’s former headquarters on Martin Luther King Drive. “The newspaper is intent on destroying this organization,” declared state Rep. Earl Jones, also a Greensboro Democrat. News &...