My Brother’s Keeper
Expanding the community’s capacity and broadening the teen pregnancy prevention approach to include promotion of positive youth development and co-occurrences of health disparities, Connect collaborated with My Brother’s Keeper to launch a new after school program for African American...
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Healthy Families Initiative Six-Month Update
Dec. 31, 2017 marked the end of the first six-months of Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) broad expansion across Spartanburg County through the Healthy Families Initiative (HFI). HFI is a multi-level, multi-stakeholder, multiple-year focused effort, aimed at normalizing parenting...
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Spartanburg’s Focus on Economic Mobility
Today’s blog is written by Troy Hanna, Executive Director of The Spartanburg County Foundation. Investing in youth has and continues to be a high priority for Spartanburg County. The Spartanburg County Foundation is excited to embark on a two-year...
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FocusFirst Program Helps Young Children to Focus First
Today’s blog is written by Sarah J. Umsted, SC State Director, Impact America Imagine trying to learn your letters without your most valuable sense: sight. For some children, that sense is already failing them—and no one has noticed. FocusFirst...
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Erin’s Law
Today’s blog is co-authored by Emily Miller, LMSW – Victim and Family Advocate for the Children’s Advocacy Center of Spartanburg, Cherokee, & Union and Polly Edwards-Padgett, Project Director for Connect Spartanburg. In 2014, Erin’s Law was passed in South...
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Celebrating Grantee Partners
Last week, the Foundation held its annual grantee celebration to spotlight the amazing work being done by the nonprofit sector in Spartanburg County each and every day. The Foundation granted approximately $2.5 million in new grants and special initiatives...
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PASOS: Supporting Latino Families
Today’s blog is written by Nora Curiel-Munoz, PASOS Program Coordinator, Upstate Family Resource Center Being involved with nonprofit organizations has been a wonderful and rewarding experience for me. I have worked at the Upstate Family Resource Center in Spartanburg...
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Contec, Inc. Earns Working Well Recognition
Today, we highlight the recent recognition of Contec, Inc. by Working Well, an evidence-based wellness strategy for employers in SC. Contec, Inc. achieved Platinum status in the following five categories by meeting best practice standards in promoting well-being in...
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A Day with Allison Black Cornelius
On October 24th, Spartanburg’s Joint Funders welcomed Allison Black Cornelius for a one-day workshop, “Standards for Excellence: An Ethics and Accountability Code for the Nonprofit Sector.” Kathy Dunleavy, President and CEO of the Mary Black Foundation, shared, “On behalf...
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Making Literacy a Top Priority in South Carolina
Literacy 2030 is an initiative promoted through the SC State Library. Literacy 2030 unites stakeholders from across the state from a variety of sectors, toward the common goal of breaking the inter-generational cycle of low literacy in South Carolina....
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