When Ginny Deerin started WINGS in Charleston, South Carolina to give kids the missing piece of their education, she probably had no idea that it would grow to transform the lives of more than 3,100 kids today. WINGS is an education program that teaches kids how to behave well, make good decisions and build healthy [...]
Archive for the ‘Community Outreach’ Category
8 May
Team Church Zumba Dance in the Fight Against Domestic Violence
Team Church Zumba Dance in the Fight Against Domestic Violence Dania Mazier Tschirhart, Certified Zumba Instructor for Team Church, located in Matthews, North Carolina led Cinco de Mayo Zumba class outdoors to support the victims of domestic violence for Turning Point. Everyone wore purple in solidarity. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Team Church Zumba Supports Turning Point [...]
30 Apr
Saluting Julianna Russell, Community Green Award Winner
Julianna Russell, a senior attending Shaw High School in Columbus, Georgia was honored as this month’s Community Green Award Winner. She is involved with the Shaw Green Club, which helps to organize recycling efforts around Columbus. With the recycling program, they have at Shaw High School, Julianna and the team visit different elementary and middle [...]
27 Apr
Greater Charlotte Boys & Girls Club Are a Part of World Book Night 2012
On Monday evening, April 23, 2012 the first World Book Night celebration was held in cities across the United States of America. Kym Gordon Moore, one of the 2012 World Book Night Givers in North Carolina and co-founder of Favorite Things for a CAUSE, shared copies of “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” by [...]
5 Feb
An Act of Kindness for Garbage Collectors
A story that ran in the “Good News” section of the Huffington Post written by Patience Salgado showed us the heart of the people we all rely on the most…our garbage collectors. Patience took an informal survey among friends and family, and came to the conclusion from the results that the most thankless job is [...]
4 Dec
Chuckie Goodnight Foundation: Shaping Earth Stewards
The Chuckie Goodnight Foundation for the Environment is a not for profit 501-C4 corporation that was founded in February 2001 by Cherie Ingraham. This organization is committed to educating children on how to be good Earth Stewards. They are dedicated to the acquisition, restoration and preservation of green spaces in order to create environmental learning centers [...]
30 Nov
Great Falls Flower Growers Raise Funds Through Holiday Tea Event
This story goes to show you that anyone can do something to make a difference in their communities. This story caught our attention about the Great Falls Flower Growers Club in Great Falls, Montana raising money for community projects and scholarships through their annual Holiday Tea event. We love the way they take something like [...]
17 Nov
Keep America Beautiful: Volunteers Reinforce Civic Pride
During the 2011 Great American Cleanup by Keep America Beautiful, more than 3.8 million volunteers and participants donated more than 5.2 million hours at 30,600 events in 16,500 communities throughout the United States. Keep America Beautiful, Inc. is the nation’s largest volunteer-based community action and education organization that was established in 1953. This national nonprofit [...]
27 Oct
Greensboro Grasshoppers Gives $100,000 to Charities
We were ecstatic to discover that members from the Greensboro Grasshoppers, a minor league baseball team from Greensboro, North Carolina made a pledge to donate $50,000 to charity at the end of their baseball season. In addition, if the squad made it to the South Atlantic League Playoffs, another $50,000 would be donated. Out of [...]
16 Oct
October 22, 2011 is Make A Difference Day
What are you doing to contribute to your community on Make A Difference Day? Do you know what Make A Difference Day is? Celebrated each year on the fourth Saturday in October, USA WEEKEND Magazine created the nation’s largest day of volunteering to rally millions of people to help change the world in a single [...]
