Today we’re wrapping up BBBS Month with some of the best news ever – NC Gov. Roy Cooper signed this document proclaiming September as Big Brothers Big Sisters Month! The proclamation notes that investing in young people changes their lives…
BBBS Haywood’s trout race is this Saturday!
Buy a wooden “trout,” at haywoodwaterways.org, to race down the Pigeon River beside the reopened Bearwaters Brewing in Canton to raise money for BBBS Haywood (and Haywood Waterways Association)! Prizes include cash, a Publix gift card, a custom bamboo fly…
Mast General Store “rounds up” $4,400 for BBBSWNC
Thank you, Mast General Store in Asheville, for your August “Round Up” campaign that raised $4,400 for BBBS of Western North Carolina. And thank you to the shoppers who threw in an additional $171 in donation jars!
Project MARS/AmeriCorps congratulates these grads, seeks new members
Congratulations to this past year’s amazing team of Project MARS/AmeriCorps members! We celebrated the end of their service year recently at Lake Logan, and we were all moved by the personal reflections and stories of impact that they shared. We…
We’ve hired some great people to serve more WNC children
Our push to provide mentors for kids in new counties means we have added more staff (again!). Debra Keener-England and Stephanie Murphy (at right, respectively, in the photo above) are new Program Coordinators in Cherokee County. They join Gloria Dockery…