April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month In 2020, Mary Black Foundation granted $25,000 to SAFE Homes for the first year of an eighteen-month grant to fund a full-time therapist who will work with victims of domestic violence and sexual...
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Live Healthy Spartanburg Merges Community Health Initiatives
Live Healthy Spartanburg Merges Community Health Initiatives New organization ensures sustainability, builds upon synergy of two multi-year collaboratives The Mary Black Foundation and Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System announce the creation of Live Healthy Spartanburg, a new collaborative with the...
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Celebrating Mary Black Foundation’s History: 2000
Celebrating Mary Black Foundation’s History: 2000 Mary Black Foundation Becomes a Private Foundation 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the Mary Black Foundation’s role as a private foundation in Spartanburg. However, the Mary Black Foundation has a legacy that extends beyond...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Updates
COVID-19 Vaccine Updates Around this time one year ago, our community started being affected by the COVID-19 virus. Now, a year later, the COVID-19 vaccine is becoming more readily available to meet the needs of our community. Phase 1b...
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Celebrating Mary Black Foundation’s History: 1999
Celebrating Mary Black Foundation’s History: 1999 Mary Black Foundation becomes a Private Foundation 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the Mary Black Foundation’s role as a private foundation in Spartanburg. However, the Mary Black Foundation has a legacy that extends beyond...
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Investing in Early Childhood Development
Investing in Early Childhood Development The power of policy change in the lives of young children and their families Research shows that investing early in a child’s life produces positive outcomes for our children, our families, and the economic...
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Celebrating Mary Black Foundation’s History: 1998
Celebrating Mary Black Foundation’s History: 1998 Mary Black Foundation becomes a Private Foundation 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the Mary Black Foundation’s role as a private foundation in Spartanburg. However, the Mary Black Foundation has a legacy that extends beyond...
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21 Days of Kindness
21 Days of Kindness Spartanburg Leaders Issue Community-Wide Kindness Challenge Following the City’s annual Unity Week, community partners have come together to issue a community-wide Kindness Challenge kicking off February 8, 2021. Each year, the City of Spartanburg’s Dr....
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Celebrating Mary Black Foundation’s History: 1997
Celebrating Mary Black Foundation’s History: 1997 Mary Black Foundation becomes a Private Foundation 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the Mary Black Foundation’s role as a private foundation in Spartanburg. However, the Mary Black Foundation has a legacy that extends beyond...
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SC Roadmap to Food Security Learning Collaborative
SC Roadmap to Food Security Learning Collaborative In the fall of 2020, the Spartanburg community was one of five communities chosen in SC to participate in the SC Roadmap to Food Security Learning Collaborative. Partners for Active Living (PAL)...
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