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Autism Unbound is a charitable organization dedicated to addressing the needs of the autism community in the areas of advocacy, education, and support. Our mission is to enable persons affected by autism spectrum disorder to live more independent, full lives by...
Mar 26, 2024 | Adult Education, Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, Local Resources, Non Profits, Winston-Salem
By TMoM Team Member Suzy Fielders Life after incarceration for women doesn’t have to be or feel bleak. Peggie Wells, Founder of The Wells Center, wanted to be sure local women who were facing hard times know this. That is why she founded the non-profit. She’s...
Mar 2, 2024 | Books, Supplies & Gear, Education, Elementary Age, From the Heart, Just for Dads, Just for Moms, Local Events, Local Resources, Moms & Dads, Non Profits, Teens & Tweens, Toddlers & Preschool, Winston-Salem
By Amy Lawson Reading Revolution, Inc was born when two friends having coffee decided that they had a dream for children in the Winston-Salem community living in book deserts to have access to a selection of free books. Nikki Francis, a veteran WSFCS teacher, found...
Oct 26, 2023 | Adults, For the Home, Just for Moms, Non Profits
By Guest Blogger Marisa McCann In 2021, Jen Hamilton, a nurse and mom from the North Carolina Piedmont Triad, found herself deeply moved by the story of a local overwhelmed mom who was struggling to keep up with the demands of housework. Determined to make a...
Aug 16, 2023 | Elementary, Food & Nutrition, From the Heart, Greensboro, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Non Profits, Nutrition
By Guest Blogger Karen Brudnak When Guilford County School’s students walk into school this month, many will see something new: a refrigerator. Why? These refrigerators are the county’s newest tool in fighting childhood hunger. According to GCS data, nearly 63%...
Aug 10, 2023 | Books, Supplies & Gear, Education, Elementary, Elementary Age
By Guest Blogger Tracy Huneycutt “Readers Make Leaders!” A Local School’s Journey to Install a Book Vending Machine Angelina Etter, the Media Specialist at Cornatzer Elementary School in Davie County, takes pride in establishing a vibrant and enjoyable learning...
Jul 11, 2023 | Camps, Children with Special Needs, Local Resources, Non Profits
By Guest Blogger Ma’Kayla Hunter The Greensboro Cerebral Palsy Association created a new summer program to provide therapies and developmental activities with peers for children birth to three with special needs. Located at the Canterbury School in Greensboro, GCPA...
Mar 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Jay Callahan From 2015-2019, I drove around a white Volkswagen minivan and tried to give back to the community of Greater Winston-Salem in a little way through The Man Van. Then in 2019, we sold the minivan and more importantly, our third child,...
Mar 14, 2023 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, Education for Special Needs, Non Profits, Winston-Salem
Guest Blogger Cameron Egan, Solutions for Independence’s Outreach Coordinator Did you know that one out of every four adults in North Carolina has a disability? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 2,198,903 adults are living with...
Dec 10, 2022 | Burlington, By Location, From the Heart, Greensboro, High Point, Holidays, Kernersville, Non Profits, Winston-Salem
By Guest Blogger Ashley Neubauer, Founder & Owner of The AG Connection For over 35 years, many girls have dreamed of owning their own American Girl Doll. The dolls’ adorable faces and heartfelt stories are something special. My daughter received her first...
Nov 15, 2022 | By Location, Greensboro, Holidays, Non Profits
By Guest Blogger Adriane Singleton, Triad Hub Manager of Wheels4Hope As the holiday season is quickly approaching, are you wondering how you can give back to those in need? Salvation Army Kettle Ringers will soon be greeting customers at shopping centers. Plus, there...
Sep 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Madison Skakle On March 15, 2020, when the world started locking down for COVID, I started Workout Friends, a fitness community on Facebook for moms of all athletic abilities. My intention was to keep the group live for just a few weeks until the YMCA...
Sep 17, 2022 | By Stage, Education, Elementary, Elementary Age, Local Resources, Non Profits
By Guest Blogger Erica Brown, Muddy Sneakers Communications Manager Muddy Sneakers is a North Carolina-based nonprofit that has been transforming 5th grade science education in public schools for 15 years. The organization provides year-long partnerships that utilize...
Jul 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Ashley Mitchell, founder and Executive Director of Perfectly Imperfect Girls Perfectly Imperfect Girls is a North Carolina based nonprofit youth mentoring program started in August of 2020. We currently serve middle school and high school girls ages...
Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Stephanie Gress, Community Advisor, Borderless Friends Forever As we begin to come out of the pandemic and a year of the world shutting down, we are able to reflect on how the past year has impacted everyone and can finally begin to enjoy the things...
Jun 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Canisha Turner “1 in 6 children aged 2-8 years has a mental, behavioral or developmental disorder.” Because of this, Maddy created her platform, “Your BIG Day,” to help children who struggle with childhood anxieties. At 7 years old, Maddy has always...
Jun 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Holly Bass When Waterfall Keepers of North Carolina, a non-profit that seeks to preserve and protect the state’s waterfalls and educate the public about these natural wonders and how to properly take care of them, launched in November of 2020, the...
Feb 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Blair Somers, Board Member of Anchor Hope Did you know there are currently over 17,000 children in the North Carolina Foster Care system alone? Once a child is pulled from their biological family there is an interim period where the Department of...
Dec 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Amber T. Harris Are you looking for opportunities to serve that are safe and fulfilling for your kids, your kids and their friends, and maybe even your families? SPARK wants to work with you to design a project that shares peace and rekindles kindness...
Dec 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Guest Bloggers Catherine Turnage, AmeriCorps Volunteer; and Parker White, Founder/Executive Director of BackPack Beginnings Let’s be honest – no one could have predicted that the year 2020 would put a global pandemic on our hands. If someone had shouted of...
Dec 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Annette George “I can’t change who I am, but I can change the world as I am.” ~ John Paul George For our family, twenty six years ago, there wasn’t supposed to be hope. My son, John Paul, was born in Winston-Salem with a rare condition called...
Nov 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Seth Houk, Guardian ad Litem District Administrator Planning to go to the county courthouse is not usually an event that excites most people. Thoughts of waiting anxiously for a case to be called, giving testimony in front of several people, fielding...
Jul 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Ally Ponte While it has been an undeniably hard year for our country and the world, many organizations and community leaders have been working tirelessly to combat problems caused by Covid-19 and a long history of systemic racism and social problems...
Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Elizabeth Miller, Executive Director at The Parenting PATH Raising children can be very tough! All moms know this. And it can be especially tough when parents face additional challenges with employment, housing, transportation, healthcare or...
Aug 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Kamm Galloway Do you like working with youth or young adults as a volunteer? Do you have skills such as mentoring, event planning, fundraising, nonprofit admin skills, etc. that you would like to use as a youth organization volunteer? If you do, we...
Mar 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger MaryKent Wolff, co-director In the United States, over 5 million children have been affected by a parent’s cancer. One nonprofit, Camp Kesem, is working nationwide to serve this population by providing them with a completely free and fun week of...
Feb 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Rachel Dievendorf, Transitions Specialist and Volunteer Coordinator Did you know that over 70,000 adults in Guilford County struggle with basic literacy skills? That means that 1 in 5 adults in Guilford County function at the lowest level of literacy,...
Dec 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Guest Bloggers Danielle Rose and Bethany Fischer What is Dressember? Dressember started in 2009 when Blythe Hill decided to challenge herself by wearing a dress every day for the month of December. Her personal challenge turned into a movement in 2013 when she...
Dec 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Tina Williams Furry Hugs, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, spreads furry hugs and love across the entire state of North Carolina! Furry Hugs is just as it is named. We purchase, package and deliver small stuffed animals to local hospitals for doctors...
Nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Rene Crawford, Development Director I want to talk about something that is very difficult to hear. No one wants to believe that children are abused, it is unthinkable. Yet, one in ten children have been, are being, or will be exposed to child abuse...
