Due to the unprecedented flooding from Hurricane Helene in September 2024, four school buildings in western North Carolina flooded so severely that students were unable to immediately return to school. Some schools closed temporarily and are back in their buildings,...
Hurricane Helene widened digital inequities for western North Carolina community college students and unveiled challenges in the usage of online student support services, according to a new brief from the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at the...
Nearly a year after Hurricane Helene left more than 4 feet of water inside the halls of Quaker Meadows Generations in Morganton, the child care program’s staff welcomed students and families back to its building on Monday for a new...
When I was 16 years old I got a cut on my foot that was extremely painful. Twenty years later that cut doesn’t carry the sharp and searing pain that it once did. It now carries a scar — a...
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina | September 1, 2025
The leadership of Elizabeth Brazas and her team will be a difference maker in how WNC recovers. Here we unpack how we worked together early on and whether it should be the job of philanthropy to serve as first responder....
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