Historic Columbia Foundation Announces New Board Members
December 16, 2009Historic Columbia Foundation Announces New Board of Trustees Members COLUMBIA, SC – December 16, 2009 – Historic Columbia Foundation recently elected several new board members to its organization for 2009…
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Rev. W. Andrew Waldo elected eighth bishop of Upper South Carolina
December 15, 2009The Rev. W. Andrew Waldo was elected eighth bishop of Upper South Carolina by the 87th Diocesan Convention meeting at Trinity Cathedral, Columbia. Fr. Waldo was elected on the third ballot.…
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Nonprofit Association Hires New Staff
December 11, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – December 11, 2009 – The SC Association of Nonprofit Organizations (SCANPO) has hired Glenice Saddler as the new Director of Membership and Resource Development. Ms. Saddler’s duties at…
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Celebrating 5th Anniversary, Charleston Miracle League Hosts Event to Honor Organization Founders, Workers and New Partner, Coastal Community Foundation
December 7, 2009CHARLESTON, SC – December 7, 2009 – The Charleston Miracle League (CML), an organization which allows children and adults with special needs to play baseball, celebrated their 5th anniversary on…
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United Way of the Midlands Convenes Faith-Based and Community Leaders to Discuss Collaborative Efforts
November 5, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – November 2, 2009 – Dr. Fred Smith of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. will be in town on Tuesday, November 17 for United Way of the Midlands…
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Columbia JCPenny Customers Round-Up for Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands
October 27, 2009100 Percent of Donations from Recent “Round-Up” Program Benefit Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands, the JCPenney Store’s Afterschool Fund Partner Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands and…
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Midlands Area Companies Recognized for Employee Wellness Programs
October 27, 2009American Heart Association publishes list in Fortune magazine COLUMBIA, SC – October 27, 2009 – The American Heart Association recognized 15 Midlands-area businesses as Start! Fit-Friendly Companies for promoting physical activity…
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Run Away on Turkey Day with Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands
October 26, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – October 22, 2009 — Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands hosts the fifth annual 8K & 3K Turkey Day Run on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26.…
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Non-Profits Surviving Economic Downturn
October 19, 2009Giving USA reports that, adjusted for inflation, total giving was down 5.7 percent, the largest drop recorded since the group has been keeping track of America’s charitable donations. Giving USA …
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New Web site Launched to Bridge Generations
October 15, 2009BGTIME.org – Bridging Generations through Technology, Information, Media and Engagement COLUMBIA, SC – October 15, 2009 – Recognizing that senior citizens in the Midlands have much to contribute to civic…
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Ken Martin Joins Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands
October 15, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – October 15, 2009 – Ken Martin has joined Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands as vice president of communications and resource development. “It’s a great time…
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United Way Campaign Picking up Steam!
October 13, 2009Midlands Companies step up in time of need Pacesetter campaigns display tremendous generosity despite economic challenges COLUMBIA, SC – October 6, 2009 – The 2009-2010 United Way Campaign has officially…
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SC Bar Foundation Awards More Than $68,000 to Midlands’ Organizations
October 6, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – October 6, 2009 – Richland County CASA, an organization that advocates for abused and neglected children in Richland County Family court, was awarded $10,000 to host a…
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Foundation Awards $37,000 in Grants
October 2, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – October 2, 2009 – The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina has awarded three discretionary grants totaling $37,000 to the Columbia Free Medical Clinic, HOPE worldwide–…
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Sisters of Charity Foundation Awards $44,500 in Caritas Grants
October 2, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – October 2, 2009 – The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina has awarded 14 Caritas, totaling $44,500, to nonprofit and faith-based organizations across South Carolina. Caritas…
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Sisters of Charity Foundation Awards $44,500 in Caritas Grants
October 2, 2009The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina has awarded 14 Caritas, totaling $44,500, to nonprofit and faith-based organizations across South Carolina. Caritas grants are for organizations providing outreach services…
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Time Warner Cable Business Class Employees Donate $10,000 to Charity
September 30, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – September 30, 2009 – They could have taken the money for themselves, but Time Warner Cable Business Class (TWCBC) employees in the Carolina Region are donating $10,000 to…
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Community Foundation Names Eau Claire Shalom Ministries the 2009 Catalyst Award Recipient
September 25, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – September 25, 2009 – Central Carolina Community Foundation announced Eau Claire Shalom Ministries (Shalom) as the recipient of the 2009 David W. Robinson Catalyst Award at its…
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Cancer Survivors Urge South Carolina General Assembly To Continue to Support Funding for Best Chance Network
September 22, 2009Program Provides Breast and Cervical Screening for Low-Income Women CHARLESTON – SC – September 22, 2009 – South Carolina cancer survivors and advocates say the continued funding of the Best Chance…
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Blackbaud Named to Software Magazine’s 27th Annual Software 500
September 22, 2009Software Magazine ranks Blackbaud as one of the world’s largest software companies CHARLESTON, SC – September 21, 2009 – Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB), the leading global provider of software and…
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ERA Wilder Realty Helps
September 21, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – September 21, 2009 – Helping to strike out against neuromuscular disease, members of ERA Wilder Realty recently raised over $1500 during a local benefit bowl-a-thon for the…
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Foundation Awards $89,900 to Catholic Sister-Affiliated Programs
September 17, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – September – The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina has awarded nine Collaboration for Ministry (CMI) grants totaling $89,900 to programs associated with women religious (Sisters)…
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Columbia's First Annual Free to Breathe® Lung Cancer Awareness Walk
September 17, 2009Celebrate Lung Cancer Awareness Month this November and Support the National Lung Cancer Partnership COLUMBIA, SC – September 16, 2009 – South Carolina’s state motto proclaims: Dum, Spiro, Spero…While I…
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Boys & Girls Clubs to Host Step Off
September 17, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – September 17, 2009 – The Sprite Step Off, a national stepping showcase combined with community service challenge, comes to Columbia on October 17th. Boys & Girls Clubs…
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Community Foundation to Hold 25th Anniversary Celebration
September 9, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – September 9, 2009 – Central Carolina Community Foundation is marking its 25th Anniversary with a celebration on Thursday, September 17, 6:30 p.m. at Leaside to recognize our…
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Columbia World Affairs Council Announces the 2009 Global Vision Award Recipient
September 2, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – September 2, 2009 – Two titans of business, law and government who have led South Carolina into new global directions will be the recipients of the 2009…
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Misunderstood Birds Get the Attention They Deserve on International Vulture Awareness Day
August 27, 2009CHARLESTON, SC – August 27, 2009 – On Saturday September 5, 2009 the Center for Birds of Prey will participate in the International Vulture Awareness Day by providing various special…
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Community Foundation Announces New Board Members
August 25, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – August 25, 2009 – Central Carolina Community Foundation is pleased to announce the following new members to its Board of Trustees: Love Collins III – Executive Vice…
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Foundation Announces Inaugural Leadership Strategies Course Class
August 18, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – August 18, 2009 – A group of 12 South Carolina nonprofit leaders were selected for the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina’s first nonprofit leadership graduate…
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Reliant Hospice Seeks Volunteers
August 17, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – August 17, 2009 – Columbia-based Reliant Hospice is currently seeking volunteers to assist its network of caregivers throughout a 32-county service area. Volunteers do not need medical…
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Yikes! King Street Invaded by Marching Ants!
August 13, 2009Local Artist, King Street Merchants Use Insect Procession To Support Darkness to Light’s “Prevent-a-Thon” in August CHARLESTON, SC – July 27, 2009 – Backed by an army of colorful, giant ants,…
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Rotary GSE Trip to Brazil
August 13, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – August 13, 2009 – The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is seeking young professionals and business people who are interested in participating in an all-expenses-paid trip to…
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Grant Proposals Sought for new HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
August 13, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – August 13, 2009 – The Central Carolina AIDS Partnership (CCAP) is seeking grant proposals for a new HIV/AIDS prevention program through Central Carolina Community Foundation. Grants will…
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Senators McConnell and Ford Praise Micronesian Scholarships Columbia, SC
August 12, 2009Charity Awards Sixteen Scholarships to Pacific Islanders CHARLESTON & COLUMBIA, SC – August 10, 2009 – Not many people in South Carolina are familiar with Micronesia, a group of isolated…
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United Way of the Midlands Young Leaders Society Members Step Up
August 4, 2009Announcing the 2009-2010 YLS Steering Committee Members COLUMBIA, SC – August 4, 2009 – Since the inception of United Way of the Midlands’ Young Leaders Society (YLS) just two short years…
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Community Leaders Step Up When it is Needed Most
August 3, 2009Announcing United Way of the Midlands 2009-2010 Board of Directors COLUMBIA, SC – August 3, 2009 – As United Way of the Midlands kicks off a new fiscal year, the members…
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Sixth Annual Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands Duck Race Raises over $100,000
July 29, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – July 29, 2009 – Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands has tallied up the proceeds from its sixth annual Rubber Duck Race, which took place Sunday, July 19,…
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SC Association of Nonprofit Organizations Elects Members to its Board of Directors
July 29, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – July 29, 2009 – The South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations (SCANPO) elected three new members and re-elected five current members to its Board of Directors after…
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Thrift Stores Thriving in Downturn Economy
July 22, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – July 22, 2009 – With the economy still sluggish at best, millions of people continue to have less and less to spend. But the news is not…
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Twenty-six Students Receive Scholarships from Home Builders Association Charitable Foundation
July 21, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – July 21, 2009 – Over the past nine years, the Charitable Foundation of the Home Builders Association of Greater Columbia (HBA) has awarded $197,000 in scholarships to…
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Columbia Attorney Named President-Elect
July 20, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – July 20, 2009 – The Bar Foundation is pleased to announce Toyya Brawley Gray as President-Elect of its Board of Directors. Gray, of The Law Offices of…
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Red Cross Meets Real Life
July 20, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – July 20, 2009 – Red Cross Meets Real Life. RED CROSS FIRE FAMILY FINALLY RETURNS HOME On July 3, Todd and Michelle Collins had reason to celebrate.…
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SCANPO Announces New Executive Committee
July 15, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – July 15, 2009 – The South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations (SCANPO) elected a new executive committee to its Board of Directors. With the addition of the…
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Healthy Learners Announces Director of Research and Evaluation
July 14, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – JULY 14, 2009 – Healthy Learners is pleased to announce that Stephanie Ann Crovelli has accepted the position of director of research and evaluation, effective July 2009. As…
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Special Needs Children Receive 75 Hour Summer Program – Many Thanks to Community!
July 13, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – July 12, 2009 – Eight children with Cerebral Palsy or similar motor disorders are receiving 3 hours of Conductive Education services per day, five days per week…
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Jeff Becraft, Executive Director of Youth Corps
July 13, 2009
MidlandsBiz: What is Youth Corps? Jeff Becraft: Youth Corps is a leadership development experience for high school students here in Richland & Lexington Counties (the Midlands). Each year, thirty-six outstanding…
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Red Cross Offers New Volunteer Training – this Saturday!
July 13, 2009Help organization prepare for hurricane season COLUMBIA, SC – July 13, 2009 – As we head into the height of the 2009 hurricane season, the American Red Cross of Central…
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Red Cross Announces Regional Heroes Campaign
July 10, 2009Grassroots fundraising efforts will help support local Red Cross mission COLUMBIA, SC – July 8, 2009 – The local Red Cross has announced that Deepal Eliatamby has been named chairman…
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New Community Partnership to Provide Grants for HIV/AIDS Prevention Education
July 7, 2009COLUMBIA, SC – July 7, 2009 – Central Carolina Community Foundation has been selected as the first National AIDS Fund Partner in South Carolina and has received a challenge grant…
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ATFS Group Certification Program Welcomes KapStone Forest Management (KFM) Landowner Assistance Program
July 5, 2009WASHINGTON, DC – July 1, 2009 – The American Tree Farm System (ATFS) announced that the KapStone Forest Management (KFM) Program’s group organization successfully completed an independent third-party assessment seeking ATFS Group…
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