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Greening Greensboro: The Beloved Community Approach
Houses like this one in the Scott Park/Jonesboro neighborhood of Greensboro, NC need weatherization, and the young people in that neighborhood need jobs. After nearly a year of planning, fund-raising,...
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Beloved Community Center Gets Ready for Gardening Season
Last Friday we headed out to East White Oak Community Garden site. We wanted to take a look at our planned layout and get more accurate measurements before purchasing our materials for the summer. We...
View ArticleGreen Jobs Training Week 1 of 6: “A Letter from Greensboro”
The words ‘Pathways to a Green Career Training Program’ sound empty, and even rendered meaningless by overuse. But the Beloved Community Center (BCC) has infused a new spirit into these words. The...
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Green Jobs Training Week 2 of 6: “A Reason to Be Smart”
Pathways to a Green Career participants Antwon, Ramon, Mike, Randor, and Tim (not pictured: Nick) Demetria Ledbetter of Beloved Community Center (BCC) in Greensboro, North Carolina is writing a series...
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Green Jobs Training Week 3 of 6: “If You Sow a Seed, Something Will Come Up.”
Participants in the Pathways to a Green Career Program enjoy a game of basketball outside Beloved Community Center after a long day of work. While the name of our job training program is Pathways to a...
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Green Jobs Training Week 4 of 6: Music for a Paradigm Shift
Participants in Pathways to a Green Career job training program prepare to perform the song they wrote. My sister Bethany, a music major at Winston-Salem State University, has taught me how powerful...
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One Organization’s Journey Towards a Media Strategy
Above, Beloved Community Center participated in CoLab’s February 2010 media workshop, along with Misssissippi NAACP, Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts, and The Urban Labs. In this post, Demetria...
View ArticleTo secure the dream in 2011, Dr. King has something to say to us!
This post is by Reverend Nelson N. Johnson, Executive Director of the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. The text is an excerpt from a speech Nelson gave on January 17, 2011 at the...
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