Check out the grantees that are making headlines across the state:

• Button Chair Exhibit Builds Awareness at Pitt County Memorial Hospital
• Lights, cameras, action! NBC Nightly News features Foundation grantees FoodCorps and CIS of Moore County
• Foundation grant is helping kids get active and enjoy local, state and national parks in NC (8-29-2011)
• Gaston Family Health Services ED honored with Robert J. Greczyn award (8-29-2011)
• Mobile high-tech X-rays support NCMOM dentists volunteering at Raleigh clinic (8-11-2011)
• Little "bets" add up to big healthy changes for NC communities (7-26-2011)
• Center for New North Carolinians earns Foundation support for work with immigrants and disaster agencies (7-21-2011)
• Big outcomes from little Foundation Sparks in three NC counties (7-24-2011)
• New federal grant allows Nurse-Family Partnership to expand in Buncombe County (7-16-2011)
• The more fun, the better when it comes to Onslow County kids and exercise with Shape NC (7-18-2011)
• BCBSNC Foundation is all smiles over happy patients at the Reidsville dental clinic (7-10-2011)
• Durham students eating healthy - that's a great Foundation partnership recipe! (6/30/2011)
• Blue Ridge Parkway offers family adventures, activity with Foundation support (6/22/2011)
• Foundation invests to "spark" healthy change in Scotland County (6/15/2011)
• BeActiveNC is set to get the Triad moving (6-8-2011)
• BCBSNC Foundation sponsored Family Medicine Program marks first anniversary (6-8-2011)
• Citizen Sparkplugs draw BCBSNC Foundation investment (5-31-2011)
• Nurse-Family Partnership makes a difference for Cleveland County's low-income parents and children (4-15-2011)
• Smithfield Farmers Market offers healthy, local food with help of a grant from BCBSNC Foundation (5-22-2011)
• It's seeds to saucepan with Moore County's Communities in Schools program - and this video tells the story (3-31-2011)
• Button Chair will visit Reidsville's Annie Penn Hospital starting April 12 (4-4-2011)
• Calling all Scotland "Sparkplugs" to spur healthy change (3-26-2011)
• New Bern will host BCBSNC Foundation's Healthy Communities Institute for NonProfit Excellence on April 27-28 (3-3-2011)
• Sparks fly in Lenoir County with 10 healthy eating, activity grants (2-24-2011)
• Smart Start gets boost to fight obesity in New Hanover County (2-07-2011)
• Early childhood programs welcome healthy boost (2-01-2011)
• $100,000 grants go to 10 charities (11-17-2010)
• BCBSNC to invest $1 million in local charities (11-16-2011)
• Council on Aging of Buncombe County gets grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield (11-18-2010)
• BCBSNC Foundation issues grants totaling $1 million (11-17-2010) 
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina invests $1 million in 10 North Carolina nonprofits (11-16-2010)
• Blue Cross Foundation Celebrates 10th Anniversary (11-16-2010)
• 10 Nonprofits get $100K each from BCBSNC Foundation (11-16-2010)
• NC Partnership for Children recognized for its continued commitment to improving the health of children in North Carolina (11-16-2010)
• CISMC recognized for its continued commitment to improving health (11-16-2010)
• Asheville 'graduates' of Kids in Parks program earn top prizes (11-09-10)
• Charity targets obesity in kids (10-26-10)
• Blue Cross Foundation targets childhood obesity with new program (10-26-10)
• $3 million program to address nutrition, activity in NC child-care centers (10-26-10)
• Blue Cross foundation targets childhood obesity (10-26-10)
• BCBSNC Foundation makes $1.18M grant for family medicine (6-16-10)
• Dental clinic bus hits the road (6-5-10)
• Family medicine focus of new BCBSNC Foundation grant (6-2-10)
• North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians Foundation to help address the shortage of family doctors (6-2-10)
• Mentoring program aims to encourage more medical students to choose a career in family medicine in NC (6-2-10)
• Blue Cross grant promotes more family docs (6-2-10)
• N.C. Council of Churches creates a cookbook with healthy recipes for large groups (5-27-10)
• Day care center creates an outdoor natural area to encourage creative, outdoor play (5-13-10)
• Kids in Parks program working to increase physical activity of children and their families (5-12-10)
• All at the table to make the healthy choice the easy choice (5-9-10)
• X-rays on wheels is mobile dental lab for the N.C. Dental Society's Missions of Mercy
• New dental X-ray bus to offer dental care to more than 6,000 patients each year (5-6-10)
• New bus provides uninsured and low income residents access to dental care (5-6-10)
• Dental X-Ray Bus in Hickory (5-5-10)
• Fitness garden dedicated at Mount Olive College (4-15-10)
• Cancer Services of Gaston County hosts the BCBSNC Foundation's Button Chair exhibit (4-15-10)
• BCBSNC Foundation's Button Chair at Meredith College (4-12-10)
• Farm to School project hosting open house (3-29-10)
• Hundreds line up for free dental clinic in Durham (3-12-10)