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| | Friday, 05 March 2010 14:54 | Oxford, NC, 2/26/10 – Third time is the charm. That's what people are saying about the Granville County Habitat for Humanity (GCHFH) ReStore, which has now opened their doors on a third day. GCHFH has recently opened their ReStore on Thursdays, in addition to Tuesdays and Saturdays. There are new hours on Tuesdays too. | | Read more... |
| Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:24 | Broughton High School Offering Leadership and Service Course, Fall 2010
Raleigh, NC (February 26, 2010) – In a newly designed High School elective course, Community Leadership & Service, students will develop leadership skills, social awareness and a sense of individual responsibility through volunteering and engaging in hands-on service projects. Students will acquire practical experience, skills, and knowledge necessary for continued contributions to their community and world outside of the classroom.
The course was designed by ME³, an organization that promotes volunteerism in Wake County through outreach, education, and service. The idea of the course is to provide an opportunity for high school students to learn about volunteerism and community leadership, and apply those learnings to making a difference in the community.
ME³ founder Amber Smith sees great potential in this course: “This is a great opportunity for the students at Broughton High School to become more involved in the community and have a leg up when entering college, as well as gain advanced understanding of solving community issues, leading others in impactful projects, and how to earn careers in the public and charitable sectors. We’re excited to empower young adults through building social responsibility and civic leadership skills at the high school level.”
Rising sophomores and juniors at Broughton High School are encouraged to enroll in this course at their respective registration dates between March 6th and March 26th. To enroll, students can find the course, Community Leadership and Service, on the last page of their registration list. When signing up online, students must remember to include the course number, 952029.
Additional benefits of this course include: building relationships with local Non-Profit leaders and organizations, the opportunity to earn a $500 scholarship, and experience that will enhance college resumes.
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| Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:24 | Today Lonesource, a Triangle Fast 50 company that helps businesses quickly and easily obtain everyday products and services they rely on to conduct business, chose SmartGrowth Inc., a local training and talent management company, to build their employee education and learning portal to be called Lonesource University.
Lonesource University will be a comprehensive learning solution that provides Lonesource employees with access to e-learning courses, developmental resources, podcasts, assessments, and informal collaborative learning. SmartGrowth is also developing an e-learning-based new hire orientation to help onboard new employees more efficiently. The inspiration and need for this program emerged from the rapid growth Lonesource has experienced over the past several years. Despite the economic conditions, Lonesource’s 2010 growth is expected to be 10 percent organic and 30 percent through acquisition.
Bradley King, CEO of Lonesource said, “Given our continual growth, we have a need to help our new employees understand our mission, vision, and values and to develop the skills necessary to meet our customers’ needs.”
Tommy Re, CEO of SmartGrowth, commented that “high performance companies recognize the need to provide a variety of resources for their employees’ learning and growth.” Mr. Re continued on to praise Lonesource’s dedication to employee education by saying, “Lonesource University is an investment in the people of Lonesource and is helping them perform to their fullest potential.”
About Lonesource Inc.
Lonesource sells and delivers more than 200,000 consumables to corporations of all sizes at competitive prices. The company provides consumable categories well beyond office supplies and distinguishes itself in the marketplace by combining its extensive category offerings with business process optimization services and state-of-the-art technology. Lonesource is headquartered in Cary, N.C. and has been serving geographically dispersed companies since 2000. For more information, visit www.lonesource.com.
About SmartGrowth Inc.
SmartGrowth is a learning and talent management company that helps clients maximize the capabilities, engagement, and performance of their greatest resource…people! For more information, please visit our Web site at www.smartgrowthinc.com.
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| Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:24 | DeLime Imaging Product Photography has just completed another update of the company's website www.DeLimeImaging.com. The improvements include a new visual template, new rotating and still photography samples in the galleries and a presentation of DeLime's website development experience.
Jim Morrison, DeLime Imaging Product Photography's CEO and Chief Photographer, says "This updated website is another great improvement for our business and underscores DeLime's in house web development capabilities. This new site provides our customers with a more complete picture of what DeLime Imaging is all about."
DeLime Imaging specializes in 360 degree rotating object and high resolution product photography for Internet applications. The 360 degree rotating images are viewer controllable, with the ability to control both the speed and the direction of rotation. DeLime Imaging offers its clients a number of image control options and sizes with its rotating images.
DeLime Imaging provides high resolution product photographs and lower resolution website-ready product pictures. The high resolution photographs may be used in print media or on a website to provide images that offer the opportunity to view important magnified details of a product with great clarity. For pictures ready to be inserted into a website, DeLime Imaging offers photographs that are customized to the client’s size specifications in the standard Internet format.
DeLime Imaging can be found on the Internet at http://www.DeLimeImaging.com. The website includes multiple galleries of DeLime Imaging’s photographs, including interactive rotating images, product animation images, high resolution photographs and website ready pictures.
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| Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:24 | FUQUAY-VARINA, NC- Gingerbread LittleVersity, a five star, family-owned childhood education provider, held a bake sale on Friday, February 19. All donations will benefit Holy Family Institute, a U.S. orphanage who opened their residential program to 18 Haitian orphaned children who were brought in on several hours notice. Holy Family Institute is committed to empowering children and families to lead responsible lives and develop healthy relationships built on faith, hope, and love. Our teachers and children worked in their classrooms collaboratively to bake and sell the goods to parents and passersby to benefit parentless children from Haiti. Total funds raised at the bake sale were $546 and Gingerbread is matching that amount for a total of $1092.
“We are pleased once again to be able to support a cause that is bigger than our selves,” said Kelli Ketner, owner of Gingerbread LittleVersity. “It is important to teach young children that there are others who are less fortunate than they are and that we can help in different ways, including a bake sale right here in our community.”
To donate to Holy Family Institute, drop by any of Gingerbread LittleVersity’s three Fuquay-Varina locations: 211 Railroad Street, 1521 North Main Street, or 2204 North Main Street. For more information please contact Shannon Page at 919 552-9185.
About Gingerbread LittleVersity
Founded in 1980 by a former school teacher, Gingerbread LittleVersity is an early childhood education provider serving families with children aged newborn to middle school with three sites in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. Family owned and operated, they are proud to be a five star rated facility. They provide preschool, summer camp, after school and track out programs as well as swim lessons at its own pool located at 211 Railroad Street, Fuquay-Varina. Gingerbread LittleVersity focuses on learning through play for toddlers and kindergarten readiness for preschool aged children. Visit HYPERLINK "http://www.GingerbreadLittleversity.com" www.GingerbreadLittleversity.com for additional information.
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| Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:24 | Raleigh, NC - February 23, 2010 - Dorrier Underwood is pleased to announce that Gary Davis has joined its consulting team.
A well-respected keynoter and motivational speaker, Davis is known for his regional humor and practical insights into building strong business relationships.
“Organizational consulting is a natural complement to my public speaking,” Davis said. “When you’re in front of a group, your job is to turn a light on so folks see something they weren’t able to see before. Coaching is what has people put those insights into action.
“Gary’s joy for life, love of people, and incredible sense of humor give him the ability to build long-lasting business relationships. You see it in his obvious commitment to his clients’ producing results,” said company president Nancy Dorrier. “We’re delighted to have him on our team.”
Davis is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with a BA degree in Education. He and his wife live in Fuquay-Varina with their three children.
About Dorrier Underwood
Dorrier Underwood is a management consulting firm that develops people and organizations to produce unprecedented results in short periods of time. Founded in 1988, Dorrier Underwood is a leader in the fields of breakthrough performance and organizational transformation.
Dorrier Underwood has consultants in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Raleigh, NC and works primarily in on the east coast, with clients in Boston, Washington, Cincinnati, and Savannah. Dorrier Underwood’s client base includes broadcasting, banking and finance, education, software development, law, manufacturing, retail, medical sciences, energy, and food brokerage.
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| Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:24 | Bob Liddle has launched PRSurvival.com a local online press release submission and writing service with a twist. Any press release submission that supports a cancer related event is free. Any golf tournament, bowling event, run, relay, etc. that supports cancer in any way does not have a charge. PRSurvival has a one page form that is filled out and then the release is sent properly formatted to 12 local media outlets and one national outlet.
Clients fill out a one-page form on line and a few clicks of the mouse formats and distributes their message to hundreds of thousands of local area residents. Although very fast and simple for the end user, the system is quite sophisticated and has a high acceptance rate.
As a result, local businesses are enthusiastically supporting PR Survival. According to Jeff Snell, ABI, CBI, Principal Broker at Enlign Business Brokers, "It's quick, easy, and cost effective. Our last release was showing over 1200 references less than a week after submission."
Martin Brossman, coaching support.com adds, "PR Survival is a very useful tool in my arsenal. I use it for every press release we have. Not only is the process quick, but also the results are fast. I highly recommend this."
“The idea came up in a meeting with the American Cancer Society on how they could better promote their events and research.” says Bob Liddle. “PRSurvival was designed to make make an extremely fast and effective way to reach hundreds of thousands of local residents with the message with a few clicks of the mouse.” “An added bonus which we did not expect is the Search Engine Optimization value of the service. We have a large number of RSS feeds off the site so customers truly get a boost via their submission.”
Bob Liddle is a local entrepreneur who has worked closely with the American Cancer Society for the last 12 years. He is a cancer survivor who started Strike For Survival – a bowling fundraiser, and serves on the Raleigh Leadership Advisory Board for the American Cancer Society.
About PRSurvival
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| Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:24 | RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The rate of stillbirths in rural areas of six developing countries fell more than 30 percent following a basic training program in newborn care for birth attendants, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
RTI International served as the data coordinating center for the study that was published in the February 21 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
The study tracked more than 120,000 births, testing the efficacy of a three-day Essential Newborn Care training regimen developed by the World Health Organization.
The training taught health care workers in rural communities—physicians, nurses, midwives, and birth attendants—ventilation and resuscitation techniques, the importance of early breastfeeding, how to keep infants warm and dry, and signs of danger. The study, the largest of its kind, is one of the first to track the rate of infant deaths following the implementation of such a regimen.
"These findings suggest that a comparatively low-cost instructional regimen for birth attendants can be effective in reducing stillbirths in parts of the world where most births are not attended by a physician," said Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., acting director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the NIH institute that, along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, funded the study.
The study authors found that the overall rate of infant death during the first seven days of life did not change among infants who had been administered the essential newborn care regimen. However, the rate of stillbirths dropped sharply—from 23 per 1,000 deliveries to 15.9 per 1,000.
The greatest decrease in stillbirth rates was among deliveries attended by nurses, midwives, and traditional attendants, who, the researchers believe, would likely not have received such training.
The study authors surmised that the essential newborn care training was most effective in providing attendants needed skills and expertise in newborn resuscitation. Upon close examination of the cases of stillbirth, they found a decrease in the rates of fresh stillbirth, or death immediately before or at the moment of birth. In contrast, the rate of stillbirth in which the fetus had died in the womb was unchanged.
WHO estimates that, in addition to more than 3 million stillbirths worldwide each year, nearly 4 million infants die in their first month of life.
The research was conducted at study sites in Argentina, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, India, Pakistan, and Zambia as part of the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research. The network is a partnership of NICHD and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
"Our results show that training in essential newborn care can play a role in improving birth outcomes in the developing world," said Linda L. Wright, M.D., scientific director of the NICHD Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research. "However, additional research is needed to extend the gains seen in this study through to a reduction in mortality during the newborn period."
In a subsequent phase of the study, trainers led in-depth sessions focused exclusively on neonatal resuscitation techniques in 88 randomly selected communities, where attendants had already undergone the Essential Newborn Care training program. But the researchers found this additional training did not further reduce infant mortality.
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| Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:24 | Cary, N.C. — Local businesses ShareFile, RPG Solutions, Brooks Bell Interactive and S&A Cherokee partnered with Stop Hunger Now to sponsor a meal-packing event on Feb. 11, the one-month eve of Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake. Within one hour, 10,000 meals were stuffed, packed and ready to be shipped to survivors.
“The need in Haiti is tremendous and for only $2,500, businesses can purchase 10,000 meals to pack,” said Ray Buchanan, Stop Hunger Now president. “Most businesses can raise that money pretty easily if they partner up. These four companies are an example of that, and what corporate responsibility is all about.”
Stop Hunger Now, a Raleigh-based international hunger relief agency whose meals have helped feed over 50,000 survivors a day since the disaster, makes it easy for businesses to host an event. Hosts are responsible for raising funds to purchase the meals and providing the space and volunteers to pack them; Stop Hunger Now brings the supplies and does the rest.
“We thought we were only going to have 30 to 40 volunteers sign up but the response was overwhelming,” said host Jesse Lipson, owner of ShareFile. “We had to cut if off at 100 volunteers because we didn’t have the space to accommodate them.”
Additional sponsors included Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Band Together NC and ROI Revolution. After meals were packed, volunteers shifted gears to networking over food provided by Bella Monica restaurant and beverages provided by Brooks Bell Interactive.
“Of course the main reason people showed up was to help Haiti,” said Phil Gruber, president of RPG Solutions. “But I think offering networking afterwards was another way to increase interest, donations and attendance.”
In addition to raising enough funds to cover the meals packed, the event brought in an additional $1,600 for Stop Hunger Now.
“We organized and pulled it off in two weeks because Stop Hunger Now made it so easy for us to host this event,” said Brooks Bell, president of Brooks Bell Interactive. “The Triangle is full of businesses that can do the same thing and really make a difference in Haiti, so we encourage them to follow suit.”
For additional information about meal-packing events, visit www.stophungernow.org or call (919) 839-0689.
About Stop Hunger Now
Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. Its meal packaging program provides volunteers the opportunity to package dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals. In its efforts to respond to emergencies around the world, Stop Hunger Now receives and distributes significant donations of in-kind aid including large quantities of food, medicines, medical supplies and other such items as may be of use in fighting hunger and providing relief in a crisis. For additional information, visit www.stophungernow.org or call (919) 839-0689.
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| | Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:17 | RALEIGH, N.C. – Dr. Robert Littlejohn, head of school at Trinity Academy of Raleigh (www.trinityacademy.com), a pre-K through 12 college preparatory school community located in North Raleigh, has announced that the school will host a Night of the Arts (NoTA) on Thursday, March 4 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Church of the Apostles, located at 333 Saint Albans Drive. NoTA is an annual event where students from both the lower and upper schools are invited to perform. | | Read more... |
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