Community Supports for Young Parents
Community Supports for Young Parents (CSYP) In 2010, the Mary Black Foundation began funding supports for young parents in partnership with the Adolescent Family Life Program (AFL). AFL provides services to pregnant or parenting mothers currently enrolled in school. ...
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The South Carolina Aquarium to Visit The Children’s Museum of the Upstate
The South Carolina Aquarium to Visit the Children’s Museum of the Upstate The Mary Black Foundation is pleased to announce early childhood development funding that has made a partnership possible between the South Carolina Aquarium and The Children’s Museum...
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La Magia del Arte en el Museo de los Niños en el Upstate
La Magia del Arte en el Museo de los Niños en el Upstate Los niños aprenden muchas cosas de la apreciación del arte. El conectarse o la expresión no verbal es muy importante para los niños de edad preescolar....
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Birth and Equity: Why Community-Based Doulas?
Birth and Equity: Why Community-Based Doulas? This week’s blog is written by Molly Chappell-McPhail, Executive Director at BirthMatters, Brenda Blasingame, M.A., Executive Director at HealthConnect One, and Dila K Perera, MSW MPH, Executive Director at Open Arms Perinatal Services...
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The Magic of Art at The Children’s Museum of the Upstate
The Magic of Art at The Children’s Museum of the Upstate This week’s blog is written by Erin Munroe, Museum Coordinator, TCMU-Spartanburg Para versión en español, haga clic aquí. Children learn many things from art appreciation. Connecting or expressing non-verbally...
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A Vision Becomes Reality
This week, The Franklin School, a high quality child development center, opened its doors to over 100 children ages six weeks to five. This exciting event has been years in the making and is the result of a tremendous collaborative...
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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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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: 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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The Spartanburg Basics: Give Me Five
The Mary Black Foundation’s mission is “to invest in people and communities for improved health, wellness, and success in Spartanburg County.” The Foundation fulfills this mission through targeted, data-driven investments in programs, policies, and place-based work that supports Healthy...
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