2026 HOPE NC Founders Day with Frank Bruni
July 11, 2026 @ 6:00PM — 8:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Orange United Methodist Church: 1220 MLK Jr. Blvd Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 Get Directions
Celebrate Founders Day with HOPE NC!
Celebration of HOPE NC founders and community partners with dinner and a fireside chat with Frank Bruni.
We are excited to celebrate our 8th year of building inclusive communities and to recognize and remember the founders of HOPE NC who made it all possible: Ginny Dropkin, Dotty Foley and Orah Raia.
Our guest speaker, Frank Bruni, will join us for a fireside chat and share his insights from his life and experience of disability. Frank Bruni has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, principally at The New York Times, where his various roles have included op-ed columnist, White House correspondent, Rome bureau chief and chief restaurant critic. He has written 5 bestselling books and is also a professor of public policy at Duke University. Learn more about Frank and his work here.
Join us for dinner and great conversation and please donate what you can to honor HOPE NC's founders so we can keep supporting adults with I/DD in inclusive housing!