County, nonprofit work to chart sustainable future for homeless shelter
Cold temperatures have arrived, but efforts to ensure the future of Jackson Neighbors in Need are heating up.
Franklin to dole out funds to community charities
Fourteen Macon County charities are vying for a piece of Franklin’s $40,000 nonprofit funding pool, but not all organizations will walk away with their full request.
Waynesville to formalize policy for pro-bono utility work
Waynesville utility crews will no longer donate labor to run power, water and sewer connections for community projects on a handshake agreement.
Nonprofit forms to teach survival skills during summer camp
The wilderness is where one can find peace and clarity while also finding inner strength and determination.
That is the basis for Radical Inclusion, a new nonprofit formed by Waynesville couple Nicole Taylor and Jess Dunlap to provide an affordable summer camp experience for youth while teaching them survival skills.
Take a stroll, read a book: Franklin nonprofit to install StoryWalks around town
Franklin will soon be joining other communities around the world who are incorporating a love for reading with a love of the outdoors.
Nonprofits line up for Franklin funding
Each year, Macon County organizations stand before the Franklin Board of Aldermen to ask for a piece of the nonprofit grant funding the town sets aside in the budget.
A story all about good people doing good things
I should get over being astounded by the way the world works. And I’m talking about the good stuff, not the negative.
The package of stories that graced the cover of The Smoky Mountain News last week, “The Golden Children,” is almost allegorical in its arc. Staff writer Holly Kays traveled to an orphanage in a remote part of Bolivia to help do some construction work and spend time with the children. Her reporting about the orphanage — named Kory Wawanaca, which means “Golden Children” — its founder, Carrie Blackburn Brown, and the connection to Western North Carolina and particularly Haywood County, is so touching that it could never be scripted because it would come off as too heartwarming, too many people doing the right thing for all the right reasons.
Nonprofit manufacturer expanding in Sylva
Webster Enterprises is settling into its newly leased building on Harold Street in Sylva following the town board’s unanimous vote to approve a conditional-use permit for the nonprofit.
“We were delighted about it,” said Gene Robinson, executive director of Webster Enterprises.
State of the Arts — Haywood
As the crowd found their seats and got settled, all eyes were on Marty Sohovich.
“I really believe 2014 was one of our best years,” he said. “And we’re turning a corner.”
Dealing with violence: Children the focus of nonprofit’s $1 million grant
Domestic violence in Haywood County — and its effect on children — could take a hit as the Thirtieth Judicial District Domestic Violence-Sexual Assault Alliance starts using the $1 million it won through a competitive federal grant. Only $10 million was dispersed nationwide, but the Alliance’s share of the three-year grant, given through the Office on Violence Against Women through the U.S. Department of Justice, jumped from $400,000 in the last grant cycle to the $1 million it now has to work with.