With New Grants, United Way Shifts Focus To Neighborhoods By David Boraks • Jun 7, 2018 United Way of Central Carolinas announced $24.5 million in new grants Thursday, and the list has a different look from years past. The agency is shifting some funding to initiatives to improve economic opportunity and mobility. <img src=”http://wfae.org/sites/wfae/files/styles/default/public/201806/060618RenaissanceWest.jpg” alt=”Renaissance […]
CONTINUE READINGHow hope, dreams are improving Charlotte neighborhood Mary Elizabeth DeAngelis: May 02, 2018 New initiative takes cradle-to-career approach to improving lives in Renaissance West In a cozy room filled with windows, books and cheerful posters, two kindergartners practice letter sounds by playing a picture game on a carpet mat. A few doors down, third-graders […]
CONTINUE READINGCharlotte Organizations Use Early Childhood Education To Help Break Poverty Cycle By Jessa O’Connor • 5/1/2018 A Charlotte study that came out last year identified access to quality pre-kindergarten education as a key factor in making sure that children who are born into poverty have a chance of rising out of it in their lifetimes. […]
CONTINUE READINGA Sense of Place. A Point of Pride. March 29, 2018 | By ASC Charlotte Categories: Blog, Home Featured Monique Luck’s “Welcoming Dreams,” a mosaic she created in 2016 with artistic input from residents, signals a new day for the Renaissance West community. The mixed-income community is what became of the Boulevard Homes, the formerly […]
CONTINUE READINGAn Educational Pipeline Comes to Life in Charlotte In their navy blue and gold uniforms, 400 students entered the new K-5 Renaissance West STEAM Academy on the west side of Charlotte, North Carolina on a fall morning in 2017. This day was the first of many designed to get the students on a new trajectory […]
CONTINUE READINGBringing New Hope to Neighborhoods For decades, Spartanburg’s Northside community and Charlotte’s Boulevard Homes neighborhood grappled with the same problems. They endured high poverty and crime rates, poor educational outcomes and substandard housing. They gained reputations as magnets for inner-city blight. Thankfully, they now share a more hopeful distinction. They’re part of the Purpose-Built Communities […]
CONTINUE READINGCHANGING THE ODDS THE INSPIRING WAYS OUR COMMUNITY IS CREATING A PATH TO ECONOMIC STABILITY BY ANN CAULKINS NOVEMBER 12, 2017 We can all learn from the inspiring story of Charlotte’s Rohan Brown. Just five years ago, at 24 years old, Rohan was selling his blood plasma and taking on any yard work he could […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline Emily Badger @emilymbadger NOV. 9, 2017 Most theories for the great crime decline that swept across nearly every major American city over the last 25 years have focused on the would-be criminals. Their lives changed in many ways starting in the 1990s: Strict […]
CONTINUE READINGCollaboration is Critical Working Together to Optimize Health in Our Communities BY ALISAHAH J. COLE, MD AUGUST 2017 Abstract Clinical care accounts for only 20% of health outcomes, with social determinants of health including environment, health behaviors, and economics accounting for the remaining 80%. Providers ought to address social determinants of health and, more and […]
CONTINUE READINGRenaissance West Community Initiative Receives National BUILD Health Challenge Grant Non-profit partnering with Carolinas HealthCare System, Novant Health, UNC Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Public Health chosen for $250,000 Award NEWS PROVIDED BY Carolinas HealthCare System Oct 05, 2017, 14:00 ET CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Building Uplifted Families, a community collaboration between Renaissance West Community Initiative, […]
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