Family Services

(pictured above:  Chanel Davis A view of Family Services’ 1200 S. Broad St. headquarters.) Family Services has a new vision statement and is in the midst of a fundraising campaign to fully implement it. “We envision a community working together...

City Council Member Derwin Montgomery will begin serving as the executive director of the Bethesda Center, the city’s largest homeless shelter, on Sept. 22. He replaces Peggy Galloway, who had served as executive director since August 2010. She...

Thanksgiving meals delivered to hundreds Mike Glenn has a lot to be thankful for. He recently moved into an apartment after four years of homelessness. He enjoyed a pre-Thanksgiving meal in his new abode on Wednesday, Nov. 27, courtesy ...

Wharton Gladden & Company, a Greensboro-based real estate investment banking firm, will partner with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to present an annual lecture series on diabetes research and prevention. The announcement came at the...

A panel discussion – sponsored by Family Services and Winston-Salem State University – tackled domestic violence in the black community on Oct. 30 on the WSSU campus. During the discussion, District Court Judge Denise Hartsfield, Legal Aid of...

A little over a year ago, Sarah Browder Harris was killed by her husband, who then took his own life. On Saturday, Sandy Browder, her father, carried a banner bearing her nickname, “Sassy,” as he took part in Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, a...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. To raise awareness of the issue, Family Services – whose Safe Relationships Division offers a number of domestic violence-related programs – will host a series of programs, many of them free and open...

Demonstrated rates of success, passionate staff and hardworking clients have helped propel a local program onto the national stage. Family Services’ Ways to Work program has reached unprecedented levels of success in the past few years. Ways to...

Four local organizations each received a $5,000 grant from the Black Philanthropy Initiative late last year. Black Philanthropy Initiative (BPI), created the Black Philanthropy Fund, which is administered through the Winston-Salem Foundation, to...

Florence Corpening has been named as a consultant for Outfitters4, a local agency that provides advice and support to nonprofits. Corpening will provide executive coaching and leadership development to nonprofit clients, according to a press...

The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County announced last week during its Annual Meeting that it topped its $2,350,000 annual campaign goal. Tom Ingram, Arts Council chair,  noted that raising $2.35 million for the arts  in a “sluggish...