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More than 30 get grant training in Promise Zone
More than 30 people received grant training in classes last week in Bamberg and Yemassee to help give area leaders more confidence and tools to submit more applications for funding. The classses, taught by South Carolina native Patrick Patterson of Global Partners for Fathers & Families, were funded through a technical training grant to the…
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NEWS: Researchers looking for ways to broaden broadband
A recent story in The (Charleston) Post and Courier highlighted efforts in the S.C. Promise Zone to improve broadband Internet access throughout the rural region of the state. An excerpt: “So in 2015, when the federal government designated six counties along the Savannah River a high-poverty “promise zone” that gets special status in grant programs,…
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Center to offer Entrepreneurial Boot Camp on May 9
The Center for a Better South will offer a special one-day Entrepreneurial Boot Camp in Walterboro on May 9 to provide training to people interested in starting a small business. The training, targeted to people who want to start for-profit businesses, also may be helpful to people who want to start nonprofit organizations as it…
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Webinar today to feature work of arts in Promise Zone
The work of arts leaders around the S.C. Promise Zone will be a focus of a live webinar discussion set for noon EDT today with Sandi Curd of Kentucky and Susan DuPlessis of the S.C. Arts Commission.