Sept. 24, 2024 Bethlehem Center bought billboard space in March 2020 to announce its new name: The Alliance Center for Education. That was the month that COVID-19 grounded commuter traffic, and Alliance Center has yet to become the household word that Bethelehem Center was for decades for thousands ... Continue Reading →
Ventures under way to address westside food deserts
Aug. 6, 2024 A real estate investor seven years into an effort to build a grocery to serve Statesville Avenue neighborhoods. A Beatties Ford Road advocate pulling together a community owned food co-op. A leader of a farm-to-family food provider serving multiple counties. A 20-year veteran ... Continue Reading →
Navigating services for aging adults and mental health issues
May 21, 2024 At a Forum focused on older adult and mental health issues and the organizations offering assistance, presenters offered wisdom, advice and references to groups that could help. But they also laid on the table the reasons that they were attracted to the difficult social service and ... Continue Reading →
Goodwill pubilshes its 2023 annual report
May 13, 2024 Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont today published its 2023 annual report. The entire report is available as a PDF download here. The 16 pages of the report are below. Links to videos referenced in the report are ... Continue Reading →
Summer programs aim to stimulate teen interest in STEM
May 7, 2024 From Victor Mack, director of the UNCC Center for STEM Education's Pre-College Program. For details on costs, dates, etc., follow links below. The UNC Charlotte Center for STEM Education Pre-College Program is currently enrolling students for its Summer Scholars programs. The goal ... Continue Reading →
2 execs explain issues that businesses are addressing at CMS
April 30, 2024 Two Charlotte business executives were invited to update the community and the Forum about the work of the ongoing Charlotte Executive Leadership Council. The group, represented a wide swath of Charlotte's corporate citizens, is pouring staff time, talent and treasure into ... Continue Reading →
Black maternal health in crisis; discrimination seen as cause
April 9, 2024 The crisis in Black maternal health, doula Robin Price told the Forum this morning, is not in the lack of access to medical facilities. Or in lack of money. Of the 2018-19 deaths among N.C. women during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period, she said, a state report judged 85% ... Continue Reading →
People can help you through the annual health insurance thicket
Nov. 14, 2022 Three people who work with the labyrinth of health insurance coverage rules offered lots of information this morning. The session was timely: Medicare’s open enrollment period closes in a few weeks, and a similar Affordable Care Act deadline looms in January. But if you come away ... Continue Reading →
The Males Place
Oct. 31, 2023 The nonprofits that are continuing to do good after 30 years are relatively rare. The Males Place is in its 30th year, and is continuing its chosen mission of focusing resources, knowledge and huge quantities of adult love and guidance on preparing teenaged boys to develop into ... Continue Reading →
School bond advocates encounter pushback
Oct. 10, 2023 Just over 30 days from when Mecklenburg voters weigh in on a $2.5 billion bond proposal for CMS school construction and renovation, Forum participants today peppered representatives from the Vote Yes for Bonds group and from CMS with questions: Why is new construction sold as a ... Continue Reading →
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