June 6, 2011
On Labor Day 2003, the Rev. Timothy Patterson of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church envisioned faith communities working together to encourage and assist families that struggle to make ends meet.
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April 29, 2011
The Arc, a 50-year-old nonprofit in the community, has started a new business venture. With a Kathleen and Joseph M. Bryan Community Enrichment and Venture Grant, bARC, as this new venture is called, employs young adults with developmental disabilities to...
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February 18, 2011
William Hueholt describes his experience at the Eastern Music Festival as transformative. “The quality of the faculty is phenomenal,” he said, “but what I really liked was how the instructors helped us develop our own ideas so that we co...
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December 1, 2010
The Guilford Nonprofit Consortium celebrated November as Nonprofit Awareness Month by inviting Dafna Michaelson, national community activist, to speak to us about solving community problems.
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September 27, 2010
Hilary and Marius Andersen, founders of Creative Snacks Co., deeply appreciate the help the nonprofit organization Church World Service gave them with their business.
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August 15, 2010
Since 1992, The Servant Leadership School of Greensboro has been offering classes, weekend workshops, training and retreats on various aspects of servant leadership in our community. For the past 20 years, the school has nurtured a generation of servant l...
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July 20, 2010
Janice Buxton, director of community outreach Initiatives for the Guilford County Resource and Referral Center, outlines the two main dimensions of work for their year-old nonprofit organization. The center offers enrichment and empowerment programs for a...
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June 20, 2010
Buck Cochran, executive director of Peacehaven Community Farm, said he is interested not only in growing tomatoes but also in growing relationships. In fact, Cochran suggests that both of the goals of Peacehaven — the farming and the relating &mdash...
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May 28, 2010
Recently we have read and heard stories of teenagers who suffered from bullying at school — and sometimes the tragic result of such abuse. Jamea Warren, a Northwest High School senior, participated in several programs with The National Conference fo...
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April 25, 2010
Sarah Hodge, a young professional who recently moved to Greensboro, was interested in purchasing her first house and wanted something unique. After a friend told her about a house on Bellevue Street in Southside, she fell in love with it.
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March 28, 2010
The Warrens are a big family with a Mom and Dad and seven children, ages 4 to 17. The entire family continues to benefit from their experiences with Win-Win Resolutions, a nonprofit in Guilford County.
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February 14, 2010
Consuela Sullivan says Reading Connections changed everything in her life — “even my knitting.” Before going to her Monday night MotherRead class at Hunter Elementary, where adults read and discuss books, Sullivan figured out knitting pa...
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January 17, 2010
Vivian Clarke, a housing counselor with the Greensboro Housing Coalition, specializes in helping highly-motivated people overcome enormous challenges in order to access decent affordable rentals.
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December 27, 2009
Brooke P. Juneau sat in a “puddle of tears” as she proudly watched her son’s first piano recital during the first week of December.Riley, now 10, was born with Joubert syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that impairs his motor functio...
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