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Southeast Raleigh Promise is excited to celebrate the opening of a new pantry at Beacon Ridge, a resource for emergency food and personal care items exclusively for residents of the apartment community that helps anchor our Beacon Site campus along Rock Quarry Road. The Beacon Ridge Pantry grew from something simple, yet important: residents coming…

Thank you to the NC Courage for recognizing our Southeast Raleigh Promise CEO Yvette Holmes with the Lenovo Community Hero Award during the August 16 match against the Houston Dash at WakeMed Soccer Park. The Lenovo Community Hero Award honors Triangle-area community leaders who go above and beyond through service, acts of kindness, and education.…

For retired educator Rosa Rand, a tutoring session recently hosted by Southeast Raleigh Promise at Beacon Ridge Apartments was more than an opportunity to help students prepare for End-of-Grade testing. It was an opportunity to reconnect with a family whose lives she has touched across three generations, offering a powerful reminder that educators shape lives…

Congratulations to our Director of Partnerships & Beacon Site Success, Charles McCall, on graduating from Class 51 of the Greater Raleigh Chamber’s Leadership Raleigh program, one of the region’s premier leadership development programs. Leadership Raleigh, a program of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, is one of the nation’s longest-running community leadership initiatives. With more…

ABC11’s Tamara Scott was on-site at the April 24 groundbreaking for Promise of Home, talking with neighbors and community leaders about what 25 new affordable rental homes will mean for Southeast Raleigh. Longtime resident James Cannon shared why community-rooted growth matters: “We want to take the neighborhood we live in to make it better. And…