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Beer and Wine Tasting at Edmunds Oast to Benefit CPN

Beer and Wine Tasting at Edmunds Oast to Benefit CPN

Charleston Promise Neighborhood has a good neighbor in Edmunds Oast. The brewery, restaurant and wine & beer retailer is hosting beer and wine tastings Tuesdays and Thursdays in August and September to benefit Charleston Promise Neighborhood. The tastings are hosted...

Student News is On the Air!

Student News is On the Air!

Scholars are learning hands-on skills in summer school this year. Research tells us summer programs that make learning fun and concentrate on math and reading literacy help students reverse the summer slide of lost academic progress and actually advance academically...

Summer Enrichment for 270 Neighborhood Scholars

Summer Enrichment for 270 Neighborhood Scholars

Charleston Promise Neighborhood designs and manages summer instruction through its Expanded Learning Time program that helps students advance academically and avoid the Summer Slide, the process by which students, particularly those from low-income homes, lose ground...

How Do Behavioral Specialists Help Children and Schools?

How Do Behavioral Specialists Help Children and Schools?

In today’s educational environment, schools, administrators and teachers are pressed to improve student test scores. When individual students act out, it diverts the focus of the teacher and can derail progress for the day.   Behavioral specialists, sometimes...

Family Night at the Aquarium

Family Night at the Aquarium

  Hands-on learning at South Carolina's most popular attraction, the SC Aquarium. All students and parents from schools in the Charleston Promise Neighborhood are welcome. RSVP to your site coordinator, whose contact information is listed below.   School...

Volunteers are the Lifeblood of a Non-Profit

Volunteers are the Lifeblood of a Non-Profit

In recognition of National Volunteer Appreciation week, Charleston Promise Neighborhood would like to recognize the diverse, dedicated group of tireless volunteers that supports the mission of Charleston Promise Neighborhood in our schools and the larger surrounding...

Nyla Is on the Right Path Thanks to Enrichment Programs, Mentors

Nyla Is on the Right Path Thanks to Enrichment Programs, Mentors

To meet Nyla Bell now as a 9th grader, you would never imagine that she was a troubled 5th grader getting suspended and hanging around with the wrong crowd. What you would see today is a poised, articulate and confident young lady who craves intellectual stimulation...

Children Learning Though Art in Inspirational Pathways

Children Learning Though Art in Inspirational Pathways

Thanks to a very generous 10-year, $25,000 grant from Ms. Barbara Melvin, Charleston Promise Neighborhood has created Inspirational Pathways, an arts-based enrichment program at Sanders-Clyde Creative Arts School. Fifth graders participating in Inspirational Pathways...

Social Studies Bowl 2018: The Children are Learning!

Social Studies Bowl 2018: The Children are Learning!

A capacity crowd of nearly 300 people filled the auditorium of the Charleston Museum on March 1 to witness another Social Studies Bowl, with five Title One schools in competition. With an emcee and scorekeeper from Historic Charleston Foundation dressed in colonial...