Happy New Year 2024
Happy New Year! A note from Mary Black Foundation President & CEO, Molly Talbot-Metz. The Mary Black Foundation would like to wish you a happy and healthy 2024! As we begin the new year, we want to take a...
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Movement 2030
Contributor: Lynne Shackleford, Spartanburg Academic Movement Director of Communications Over the last decade, Spartanburg stakeholders have led innovative, cross-sector strategies that have translated into real results for our residents, including increased economic growth, dramatically reducing teen births, and improved...
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Molly Talbot-Metz Receives the Order of the Palmetto Award
Molly Talbot-Metz Receives Order of the Palmetto Molly Talbot-Metz, president and CEO of the Mary Black Foundation, has been honored with receiving the Order of the Palmetto Award. Talbot-Metz was honored with the award, recognized as the highest civilian...
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2023 Grantee Celebration
2023 Grantee Celebration Last Thursday, the Mary Black Foundation held their annual Grantee Celebration to recognize the organizations that received grants from the Foundation this year. In 2023, the Foundation invested over 2 million dollars in grants and special...
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Adelante Together for the Community We Create
We invite you to imagine two moments. The first is hard, because we’d like you to recall a moment when you felt out of place. And the second is pleasurable, because we ask you to imagine a time you...
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2018 Grantee Celebration
In 2018, the Mary Black Foundation invested over $3 million in grants and special initiatives through its three funding areas: Early Childhood Development, Healthy Eating and Active Living, and the Community Health Fund.
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Why Quality Matters
If you really want to make a big impact, there is no better investment than quality early childhood education. Research shows that quality early childhood education can have profound lifelong effects.
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Connecting Youth to Technology and Success
To quote Steve Jobs, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” When you walk into the doors of Whitlock Flexible Learning Center, one thing is clear, the staff love what they do. Caring...
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Targeted Investments Are Made Up Stream: Part 2
Early childhood development is one of the two key focus areas of the Mary Black Foundation. But in an organization concerned with community health, why does early childhood matter so much? In a previous blog we explained the importance of...
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Reflections of the HealthyCommunity50 Challenge
Spartanburg County’s participation in the two-year national HealthyCommunity50 challenge is concluding. As a community, we have sought to improve health through a focus on physical activity. We celebrate the ways by which local municipalities led in these efforts. When...
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