Hoop dreams: Carr McLamb and Henry Neese
Carr McLamb, left, and Henry Neese coach youth basketball at Halifax Community Center by Settle Monroe photographs by Robert Willett Around these parts, basketball is serious business. As November...
View ArticleParty with a purpose
Raleigh Giving Party co-hosts, from left, Melissa Colantuoni, Christina Woelffer, Natalie Best, and Jennifer Venable; photo by Annie Cockrill by Settle Monroe Home shopping parties, where women invite...
View ArticleChris Budnick
by Settle Monroe photograph by Christer Berg Connection and community are at the heart of Chris Budnick’s work. Like many of the men and women who come to his organization for help overcoming...
View ArticleAnne Bullard
by Settle Monroe photograph by Elizabeth Galecke Anne Bullard, chairman of the board of directors at Burning Coal Theatre Company, has always been an avid supporter of the performing arts. Although...
View ArticleBeing the change: Exploris School’s award-winning refugee project
Exploris student Warren Gray delivers fresh kale to Ni Ni Myint, whose lack of access to healthy food inspired an award-winning project. Photograph by Sonja McKay by Settle Monroe A group of students...
View ArticleGivers: Triangle Family Services
Triangle Family Services CEO Alice Lutz with Mike Zayas, who says Lutz “and all the people at Triangle Family Services are unbelievable.” Triangle Family Services Helping families in crisis for 80...
View ArticleGIVERS: A Lotta Love
Lotta Sjoelin Bringing beauty and dignity to kids in crisis by Liza Roberts photographs by Missy McLamb When a child arrives at Wrenn House, the Triangle’s only homeless, runaway, and crisis...
View ArticleGivers: Send a Kid to Camp
I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE HERE Send a Kid to Camp by Hampton Williams Hofer photograph by Missy McLamb Not long ago, Mo Johnson used to drive through the heart of Southeast Raleigh in the summertime and see...
View ArticleGivers: PAVE Southeast Raleigh Charter School
“I will not waste this day” PAVE Southeast Raleigh Charter builds scholars, community by Hampton Williams Hofer photographs courtesy Spencer Menzel Every morning, each of the 230 children at PAVE,...
View ArticleGivers: Camden Street Learning Garden
Growing Out of the Concrete Camden Street Learning Garden nourishes neighbors by Katherine Poole photograph courtesy Camden Street Learning Garden Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in...
View ArticleGivers: N.C. Hunters for the Hungry
Reverend Steve Stephenson and Gary Farmer pass out donated venison at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church’s food panty in Wilson, N.C. by Hampton Williams Hofer photographs by Jaclyn Morgan At food...
View ArticleStrong Suit
Madeline Gray Project Enlightenment equips young students by Hampton Williams Hofer photographs by Madeline Gray In a quaint neighborhood on Boylan Avenue in downtown Raleigh sits a brick building...
View ArticleCalled to Cultivate
Jamie Thayer-Jones Jason Brown grows food to donate, not to sell by Iza Wojciechowska Every fall, Jason Brown welcomes thousands of volunteers to First Fruits Farm in Louisburg, North Carolina, who...
View ArticleJewel Tones: 3 Irish Jewels Farm
Local parent organizes programs for students with autism by Addie Ladner All photos courtesy 3 Irish Jewels Farm Being a parent can be tough. Erin O’Loughlin found being a parent of a school-aged...
View ArticleGivers: The Harvard 100
The Harvard 100 by Jessie Ammons Rumbley Chuck ReCorr has spent almost five decades crunching numbers to maximize outcomes: He leads a team of wealth managers at Bank of America Merrill Lynch who...
View ArticleGivers: So Good Pupusas
Feeding a need with pupusas by Jessie Ammons Rumbley photographs by Smith Hardy By the time she was a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill, Cecilia Polanco knew she wanted to start a scholarship fund for the...
View ArticleGivers: Triangle Radio Reading Service
by Laura White photographs by Eamon Queeney Tucked in the back corner of a row of townhouse-style offices just off Six Forks Road is Triangle Radio Reading Service. In contrast to the sun-baked...
View ArticleCASA provides housing for hundreds of Raleighites
Sunnybrook is one of several apartment buildings run by CASA, a nonprofit in Raleigh, that provides affordable housing. by Hampton Williams Hofer photography by Juli Leonard One Raleigh woman and her...
View ArticleMade4Me Furniture
Local nonprofit builds adaptive furniture by Addie Ladner Packing boxes, spaceships for kids, winter storage—it’s hard to conjure up more uses for cardboard than this. For Megan Vasko and her son...
View ArticleCode the Dream
by Addie Ladner photography courtesy Code the Dream It’s a Thursday night on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh. While many people are drinking and eating their way through downtown, nearly 20...
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