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Health and Wellness on Tap at Community Garden Summer Social Pop-Up for Beacon Ridge Residents
Residents and families recently gathered with their neighbors for our first Beacon Ridge Community Garden Summer Social Pop-Up, an afternoon filled with fellowship and learning, all centered on wellness at the community garden on the Beacon Site campus. The event reflects our ongoing commitment to the Health & Community Wellness component of our mission, creating…
Read MoreThree Generations, One Village: A Teacher’s Lasting Legacy
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…
Read MoreCongratulations! Director of Partnerships & Beacon Site Success Graduates from Leadership Raleigh
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…
Read MoreSoutheast Raleigh Promise Awards First-Ever Promise in Action Grants, Thanks to the Rock Quarry Road Corridor Small Business Alliance
Southeast Raleigh Promise is proud to announce the recipients of its first-ever Rock Quarry Road Corridor Small Business Alliance Promise in Action Grant, an initiative created to strengthen and grow small businesses in Southeast Raleigh. Powered by a $25,000 investment from the Duke Energy Foundation, this micro-grant initiative reflects the power of public-private-community partnership focused…
Read MoreSoutheast Raleigh Promise CEO Watches Governor Stein Sign Executive Order Expanding Affordable Housing Efforts
Prosperity Starts With Place and People
ABC11 Covers Promise of Home Groundbreaking
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…
Read MoreA Milestone for Southeast Raleigh: Breaking Ground on the Promise of Home
Enloe High School has raised $1 million for local charities. It needs $60,000 more.
The News & Observer BY T. KEUNG HUI Enloe High School’s Charity Ball has raised more than $1 million over the last 15 years to help local charities, but this year’s efforts to help a Southeast Raleigh-based organization will go down to the wire. Charity ball organizers want to raise $200,000 by Dec. 7 to…
Read MoreEDUCATION PNC Foundation gifts $250,000 to 3 groups serving Raleigh children
WRAL By Ken Smith, anchor/reporter RALEIGH, N.C. — The PNC Foundation gifted $250,000 on Tuesday to three local groups that serve children and specialize in early childhood education. Stakeholders and recipients gathered at Southeast Raleigh Elementary at noon for a speech and ceremony, which included entertainment from preschool-age singers. The three organizations receiving the grant…
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