January 2017

  • NEWS: How you can help provide summer meals to students

    News release | The S.C. Department of Education’s Office of Health and Nutrition is offering an excellent opportunity for local government agencies, school districts, faith-based and private nonprofit organizations to provide summer meals to children by becoming a sponsor or a summer meal site for our Summer Meals Program. (Learn how to become a sponsor…

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  • NEWS: Center to offer two grant-writing courses in Promise Zone

    The Center for a Better South will offer one-day grant-writing courses in February and March by recognized professionals to help organizations improve skills for seeking federal funding available through the S.C. Promise Zone.

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  • NEWS: 17 complete intensive grant training program

    JAN. 8, 2017 – Seventeen Promise Zone representatives recently completed an intensive, four-day Grant Writing Certification Program offered by SouthernCarolina Alliance to give them better tools to seek grants and take advantage of opportunities offered by the Promise Zone designation. “We have heard some frustrations from our partners, supporters and the general public on how…

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  • OP-ED: Promise Zone keeps pushing for regional progress

    By Andy Brack, Center for a Better South | There’s a palpable sense of energy flowing through the six counties of the southern tip of South Carolina in the federally-designated Promise Zone, which is now a year and a half old.

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