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The Sister Circle: Building Better Women and Stronger Communities
Listening to Leah McNair, it’s hard not to feel like anything is possible. Every word from her lips is filled with hope and echoes a resounding confidence in what the women in her circle, The Sister Circle, can achieve and become. In just four short years, what started out as a book club in the…
Read MoreGetting Women Where They Need to be: Women in Motion of High Point
Women in Motion’s Board of Directors, and Executive Director, Pam Baldwin (center). It’s no secret that High Point, North Carolina is made better by quite a few strong female leaders. From city managers to council members to CEOs, our city is full of women who know that girls run the world. And among the organizations…
Read MoreA Non-Traditional Twist to Teaching: KinderMission Academy
The staff at KinderMission Academy (From L to R: Katherine Anderson, Assistant Director; Betsy Rodriguez, Founder & Director; Gloria Wireko, Administration Lead; Kelly Anderson, Co-Director). Fifteen years ago, Betsy Rodriguez, now Director of KinderMission Academy, was working two jobs waitressing and teaching full-time to put her young daughter into childcare. With a heart for teaching…
Read MoreCommunity: The “Why” Behind the YMCA of High Point
The lobby to the Hartley Drive Family YMCA What makes it so fun to stay at the YMCA of High Point? Simple – the ceaseless dedication behind the scenes of people in our community who have given decades of their lives to serving others. Like Lynn Lomax – whose story is one of a persevering…
Read MoreBison Who Belong: Bison Pride at High Point Central
Héctor Ancizar Gómez-Argote, Assistant Principal at High Point Central High School, pauses outside of a classroom, reaching for the chain hanging from an antique bell. A low, dull clang sounds, one he jokes would hardly reach the expansive hallways of HPC any longer. A group of alumni laughs with him, chatting and discussing memories of…
Read MoreLeading through Literacy: LEAP
It’s been a decade since Dr. Claire and Mike Robinson started their educational non-profit, LEAP, and if you ask them about their plans for the future, they show no signs of slowing down. Proudly built around their motto, “Leap into knowledge so I can go to college,” LEAP serves upwards of four hundred kids, boosting…
Read MoreFirst Family: World Relief Triad
Post-Arrival Reception & Placement Program Officer at World Relief, Kara Hernandez hugs Didi Lwamba, a client World Relief resettled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While many of us have called High Point home for our entire lives, other High Pointers in our community have arrived in High Point as newcomers. Some because of…
Read MoreEliminating Racism, Empowering Women: YWCA High Point
It’s hard to catch Heidi Majors sitting down for long. As the Executive Director of the YWCA High Point, Heidi oversees the YW’s seven programmatic areas, not to mention the organization’s partnerships with seemingly every organization in High Point. In the more than 20 years Heidi has spent at the YWCA High Point, she has…
Read MoreCulinary Medicine: Kitchenology
We’ve all heard it said, you are what you eat. And for many, consuming foods that are delicious and nutritious is as simple as a trip to the grocery store or a local restaurant. But for individuals experiencing food insecurity – that choice isn’t so simple. Not only are those foods harder to find, but…
Read MoreA Special Blend is Coming to High Point!
In 2016, Deedee Ungetheim strolled into a coffee shop in Wilmington, NC that would change her life. Bitty and Beau’s, a coffee shop that first started in Wilmington to employee individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDDs), was unlike any place Deedee had ever been before. “I was thrilled to see people have meaningful employment,” Deedee…
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