Pathway to Progress
Pathway to Progress This week’s blog is written by Jessica McKinney, Executive Assistant, Upstate Family Resource Center In 2020, Upstate Family Resource Center (UFRC) received $15,000 in general operating support to provide safety net services that help families overcome crisis...
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Mary Black Foundation Grantee Spotlight: United Way of the Piedmont
Mary Black Foundation Grantee Spotlight: United Way of the Piedmont This week’s blog is written by Hannah Jarrett, Director of Financial Stability Strategy, United Way of the Piedmont In June 2020, United Way of the Piedmont received a $55,500...
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Mary Black Foundation Celebrates 2019 Grantees
Mary Black Foundation Celebrates 2019 Grantees In 2019, 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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Reflections: Road to Better Health Annual Meeting
Today’s blog was written by Lori Boyd, Coordinator, Joe R. Utley Heart Resource Center, Spartanburg Regional Health System If you know about Spartanburg’s Road to Better Health, you know that one of the taskforce focus areas is Health Equity. This...
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A Fond Farewell
In March of 2013, I had the great honor of being named CEO of the Mary Black Foundation. Later that year, the trustees and staff created a 3-year strategic plan and we were challenged to be a more pro-active...
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Listening for Good
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done.” These are the words Bryan Stevenson, well known author, attorney, and Founder/Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, shared with an audience of over 400 attendees...
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Nonprofits Train to be Change-Makers
Spartanburg County nonprofits are investing in growing their cultural competency of the Latino community in order to more effectively fulfill their missions and create a stronger community. Cultural competency is the ability to understand, appreciate and interact with people...
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2017 Mary Black Foundation Annual Report
In 2017, the Foundation invested over $2.9 million in grants and initiatives to improve health and wellness in Spartanburg County. We also completed year one of our 3-year strategic plan to: Impact: Demonstrate & communicate the positive impact of...
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Child Abuse Prevention and Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April is Child Abuse Prevention and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Spartanburg’s Partners in Prevention have collaborated to provide a variety of opportunities for increased community awareness and information sharing. Below is more information on the opportunities to engage on...
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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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