Greenville County opened the door to $70 million in stimulus funding for Greenville businesses on July 6.

Minority small businesses and public health providers also can apply for grants from respective $5 million and $4 million funding pools.

Eligible companies for the first wave of small business funding include small businesses with up to 50 employees that did not receive Paycheck Protection Program loans, Economic Injury Disaster Loans or Small Business Administration Debt Relief assistance under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, according to a news release.

Grants from the $70 million small business fund will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to eligible applicants, and can be used to offset the expense of reopening a small busines while installing public health measures that halt spread of COVID-19, according to the fund website. Expenses can include new equipment, supplies, building or equipment modification and new operation procedures or processes.

Applicants for minority business grants must be at least 51% owned by socially or economically disadvantaged individuals and employ a maximum of 50 people.

Public health grants can be used to help cover expenses for expanded meal delivery, patient care and testing, convalescent care, homeless assistance, food pantries, mental health and drug or alcohol treatment at medical facilities, public health organizations and nonprofits ministering to older adults and vulnerable populations, according to the site.

Scott and Phil talk about going back to work in the office. How do we handle that?  Why are we feeling differently about that? How do do our best to assess the risks? Also, a brief conversation on the transformation of businesses from heroics to systems thinking.

Bonus… We hint at the upcoming availability of a time machine for one of our events you might have missed.

Then we get to a decision framework for getting the important stuff done.  How do we do that? How do we avoid the loops that keep us from getting the most important things done?

We’ve got some ideas on how you can nudge yourself into new behaviors and change your outcomes.

Opening Night 2016: An American in Paris

Posted July 2, 2020; originally aired in the 2016 season

https://www.brevardmusic.org/online/digital-bmc/?utm_source=Brevard+Music+Center&utm_campaign=a4740e663a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_31_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b154873bc5-a4740e663a-131688489

Selected past performances by BMC orchestras, faculty, and guest artists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Open Air Brevard.

https://masks.com/pages/the-great-american-mask-drive-by-masks-com?fbclid=IwAR0AR-vhz0_JXmFMEKFZS-3sNE1PldWPahS7LK-uPP4QtvyIXAvJzuEvOB8

Explore a series of posts to learn how the roots of American music run deep in North Carolina.

Keith discusses Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote and the experience of preparing and performing it with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra and internationally renowned cellist Johannes Moser. The featured recording is from that performance in 2015.

https://www.brevardmusic.org/online/keiths-corner/?utm_source=Brevard+Music+Center&utm_campaign=a4740e663a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_31_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b154873bc5-a4740e663a-131688489

Exhibition Description

mod·ern | \ˈmä-dərn,

quilt·ing | \ˈkwil-tiŋ

The process of cutting fabric into small pieces, sewing it back together, layering with batting and using thread to hold it all together in in a way that it is considered modern.

This is an invitational Modern Quilt Exhibit organized by a group of seven modern quilters from the greater Greenville area. Each quilter invited another award winning quilter from outside the upstate to participate in the show. The participating Modern Design Lab members and artists include Paige Alexander (Easley, SC), Cheryl Brickey (Greer, SC), Yvonne Fuchs (Tehachapi, CA), Faye Jones (Simpsonville, SC), Valorie Kasten (Williamston, SC), Cindy Lammon (Greenville, SC), and Travis Seward (Greenville, SC). Each of these Modern Design Lab quilters invited another award winning quilter from outside the upstate to participate in the show. The featured guest artists include Jack Edson (Hamburg, NY), Connie Kincius Griner (Burlington, NC), Sylvia Schaefer (Athens, GA), and Michelle Wilkie (Cary, NC).

UNITED WE FIGHT. UNITED WE WIN.

Many things have changed this year, but one thing that hasn’t is United Way of the Piedmont’s commitment to providing school supplies to children who need them most.

16,214 children in PK-5 Spartanburg County live in poverty. Even during a “normal” year,  purchasing a full list of school supplies can be out of reach for their families.

Students need our support now more than ever.

JOIN US

We are committed to providing students with backpacks filled with the school supplies they need to be ready for success.

Your donation will make an impact on a child’s life right here in our community. Packed backpacks are given directly to school social workers who provide students with the greatest need with the supplies you provided. Supplies go to social workers in all seven Spartanburg County School Districts.

Maximize your impact by providing a “Ready-to-Learn” backpack to a child, full of all of the supplies they need to start school on the right foot.

BMC@Home

From our home to yours: students and faculty share new concerts, living room recitals, and masterclasses.

Enjoy our inaugural Virtual Living Room Concert. BMC violin faculty member Benjamin Sung discusses and performs Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2, I. Obsession, Prelude. This movement includes quotes from Bach’s E Major Partita infused with the recognizable melody of the “Dies Irae”.

BMC trombone faculty member David Jackson joins Michael Dease, the Director of the Jazz Institute @ Brevard, who wrote this special arrangement of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Originally for a vocal chorus, this arrangement features eight trombone parts supported by string bass, organ, and drums.

BMC alums and 2020 students RJ McDowell and Wesley Hamilton share this special at-home performance. Written by Italian composer Alessandro Rolla, this viola duet lets both parts shine. This is the first movement, Allegro Maestoso, from the Duo in G Major. RJ holds degrees from Furman University and Belmont University, and Wesley recently graduated with her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT The hillbilly stereotype is one that is alive and well in American popular culture as a quick survey of the cable dial reveals with such shows as Moonshiners, Appalachian Outlaws, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, and countless others. Surprisingly, it is one often displayed among educated sorts here in Western North Carolina who would never dream of disparaging any minority or “out group,” but do not hesitate to characterize native Western North Carolinians, as a group, as ignorant, in-bred, hopelessly retrograde, violent, snake-handling, moonshining/meth-making rednecks. The Hillbillyland Exhibition explores the power, prevalence, and persistence of the hillbilly stereotype from the days of its beginnings in the late 19th century to the present day. The exhibit takes a unique approach by focusing on photography featuring the people of the region, some of them stereotypical images, combined with poetry and short prose pieces that challenge and complicate these stereotypes. Visit the Virtual Exhibit

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT In the midst of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, we take an in-depth look at the 1918 influenza epidemic in Western North Carolina through newspaper clippings, advertisements, ephemera, photographs, and oral history and place the events of 1918 into context with our present-day response to the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.wnchistory.org/virtual-exhibits/influenza/?utm_source=Western%20North%20Carolina%20Historical%20Association&utm_campaign=78fa0bbdf8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_23_05_25_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7424f63c4d-78fa0bbdf8-329482143