 She had been either a trustee or a board member for Salem College and Academy, the Moravian Music Foundation and the N.C. Museum of Arts located in the state capital Raleigh.Hanes was a significant figure in the establishment of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and along with several volunteers, helped to raise over $850,000 to allow the school to be based in Winston-Salem by making telephone calls to almost every number in the area.She donated an 1861 Civil War flag to the Historic Crab Orchard Museum in Tazewell, Virginia, and gave funds to construct a pleixglass cover that allowed the banner to be displayed.