News + Updates

Panther Pride!

Panther Pride!

One of Charleston Promise Neighborhood's most exciting initiatives is creating a College Bound Culture within our schools. Nakisha Scott, Charleston Promise Neighborhood's Program Assistant, invited Monica Wade, Recruiter and Admissions Counselor for Claflin...

Stories From Our KidsWell Clinics

Charleston Promise Neighborhood’s KidsWell Health and Wellness Initiative is a strategy to improve students’ access to healthcare so they are healthy and ready to learn. KidsWell Health and Wellness includes pediatric health clinics in our four elementary schools,...

Health Literacy: A Prescription For Healthy Kids

We hope everyone is starting 2013 on the right foot in terms of living a healthy lifestyle. This year promises many wonderful things as Charleston Promise Neighborhood (CPN) Health Literacy Sessions are in full swing. AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer and CPN Health Literacy...

Doing Whatever It Takes!

When CPN Program Assistant, Nakisha Scott, traveled to Athens, GA to meet with Athens Promise Neighborhood's Whatever It Takes (WIT) Neighborhood Leaders, her mission was to observe their highly successful neighborhood engagement team in hopes of better assisting...

A History Filled Field Trip

The Literacy Outreach Initiative at the College of Charleston hosted a field trip for 3rd and 4th graders from Charleston Promise Neighborhood schools: Chicora School of Communications, Mary Ford Elementary, James Simons and Sanders-Clyde Creative Arts School. ...

A Promising Night

This month we launched our Teach For America (TFA) Mentoring Program, by hosting a celebration welcoming our TFA teachers and introducing them to their mentors. The TFA Mentoring Program is designed to provide the framework for relationship-building between CPN donors...

MWV Provides a $75,000 Grant to Charleston Promise Neighborhood

MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV) is pleased to announce a grant of $75,000 to be given to Charleston Promise Neighborhood (CPN) over a three-year period; in addition to a professional marketing intern who will assist CPN with internal and external communications...

Engaging Our Youth

Charleston Promise Neighborhood’s Community Engagement Council has launched the school year engaging 10 Sanders-Clyde seventh and eighth graders in our YouthPromise leadership development program. This unique program offers effective communications and positive public...