Guiding the Path to Womanhood: Alamance County, Queen’s Guidance Mentorship Program
Guiding the Path to Womanhood: Alamance County, Queen’s Guidance Mentorship Program By Grayson Kelley & For Alamance Narrative Team Photo Credit: Armani Graves Like many young teenage girls, Armani Graves was searching for a friend and a mentor. Despite her adventurous spirit, Armani often felt lost amid the chaos and emotion of being a teenager. […]
Building Together: For Alamance
The For Alamance initiative, formerly known as the Alamance Harwood Initiative, invites you to attend Building Together: For Alamance on Thursday, April 11th at the Paramount Theater at 6:30 p.m. In 2022, the Alamance Choosing Hope report was created in partnership with The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation. Since the report has been published, 5 […]
Leading the Way: The Journey of Graham High School’s PTO
Leading the Way: The Journey of Graham High School’s PTO By the Harwood Narrative Team Photo credit: April McCorvey Like all parents, April McCorvey wants the best school experience for her child. McCorvey had joined parent teacher organizations (PTOs) before and knew the benefits that come from families and schools working together. So, when her […]
Rev. Covington Profile
Elon University studentsPower & Place CollaborativeAlamance County Harwood Initiative’s Narrative Team Reverend Larry Covington serves as the pastor of Ebenezer United Church of Christ in Burlington, North Carolina. He was born in Danville, Virginia, but has traveled throughout the world in the name of service to spread the word of God. Rev. Covington has dedicated […]
Using Community Conversations to Renew Civic Faith and Spark a Chain Reaction
When 32 public innovators recently gathered in Alamance County, North Carolina, for their firstworkspace since going through the Getting Started Lab, they brought their stories with them. For threemonths, the action teams had been gathering public knowledge in the community. The area is home tostrong leaders who have made positive inroads to build upon. But […]
Unity Found in the Arts
Turning Outward The Arts Team is bringing people from different arts organizations together to think, work, and lead differently to fulfill a shared aspiration: build a better Alamance. The team’s leaders, Cheryl Wilder and Tami Kress, say they have internalized the Harwood Approach, especially the Turn Outward and North Star Key Mantras, which has led […]
Making Dreams Come True
Photo Credit: CityGate Dream Center When local volunteer and former college athlete Armando Camacho asked Lisa Edwards if he could create a youth soccer league at the CityGate Dream Center last summer, they didn’t know they were planting the seed for an amazing journey that would take the team to compete in London in June. The center, located […]
Impact Alamance Plugs $30,000 into New Community Forward Projects
July 19, 2022 (Burlington, NC) – As part of its ongoing commitment to strengthen the county’s grid of resources, Impact Alamance awarded a total of $30,000 to three local organizations through the newly formed Community Forward Grants. The Community Forward Grants aim to empower communities while supporting new ideas, activities, projects, and events. The goal […]
Impact Alamance Announces New VP of Education Programs and Alamance Achieves Executive Director
Impact Alamance Announces New VP of Education Programs and Alamance Achieves Executive Director July 13, 2022 (Burlington, N.C.) – Impact Alamance announces the promotion of Tyronna Hooker to Vice President of Education Programs and Lexy Roberts to Executive Director of Alamance Achieves. Hooker joins the Impact Alamance team as the former Executive Director of Alamance […]
Impact Alamance Invests $150,000 in Community Projects
BURLINGTON, N.C., JUNE 14, 2022 – As part of its ongoing commitment to strengthen the county’s grid of resources, Impact Alamance awarded $150,000 into local nonprofit organizations through the Progress and Enhancement Fund, formerly known as the Community Health Fund. A total of seven community agencies were funded. “Impact Alamance is committed to serving our […]
