Last Tuesday, Greenville Forward partnered with the Warehouse Theatre to present a documentary and discussion as part of the Challenge Series program. The featured film was “A Community Concern,” a film addressing three separate stories of communities working to challenge the broken educational systems in their towns. The three stories emphasized Oakland, Boston, and the [...]
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31 Jan
You are never too young…
Here at Greenville Forward, we believe in young leadership. This belief is evident in our constant supply of bright-eyed college and high school interns, our involvement with Youth Leadership Greenville, and our general attitude that the young people in our community are going to be the ones to shape our community’s future in 2025. I [...]
26 Jan
Setting the Pace
Last night, I participated in the opening session for PULSE’s Pacesetters Program. I am delighted to do the program this year so I wanted to share some of my experiences along the way. First of all, if you are not familiar with PULSE, as a young professional it really is a must for networking, building [...]
24 Jan
How do you see the road ahead?
Recently, Brock Koonce (our Program Director) was filling the Greenville Forward team in on the TEDX Salon that Headstrong helped facilitate discussing the role of youth in Greenville’s future. As he was telling us about the presentations, one thing really stuck with me and became an interesting illustration for community journeys. One of the featured [...]
26 Sep
Your Voice. Your Greenville. Join the Vision.
If you have been reading The Greenville News, attended our celebration, or have been keeping a pulse on Greenville Forward’s twitter feed, you have heard our big news. On September 15 ,we launched our inaugural membership program called: “Your Voice. Your Greenville. Join the Vision.” Since the big launch, we have been busy collecting memberships, [...]
7 Sep
The time is nearing…
If you keep up with Greenville Forward’s activities, you know we have some exciting things happening and we are delighted to share with you our newest addition to our nonprofit NEXT THURSDAY night. We are in the final planning stages and all we need now is for the people to come and celebrate with us. [...]
17 Aug
What If Greenville Forward launched a new website…
Several months back, Greenville Forward had an idea. As we sat around the conference room table at Orange Coat Web Design, we shared our idea. We wanted to create a simple website that would collect ideas from community members about how Greenville County can be made even better. Since we work to implement a long [...]
5 Jul
Top 10 CNN Hero Speaking at Furman Today
Sometimes we need to pass along things that are “good.” Here is something good that you can enjoy today, courtesy of Furman University and the Bridges to a Brighter Future organization. TOP 10 CNN HERO TO SPEAK AT FURMAN ABOUT BRINGING CLEAN WATER TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Wine to Water founder Hendley to give talk [...]
16 Jun
On Purple Hearts and Remembering our Heroes
Yesterday, I attended the US Postal Service’s upstate meeting to listen to the Nonprofit 101 mailing seminar. If you work for a nonprofit and have used the mailing rate, you know how complicated the system can be if you don’t understand the process and parameters. Anyway, I had an unexpected moment of inspiration and national [...]
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