Are you ready to run wild with the WNC Nature Center?! Race to be the Greatest Of All Time while supporting the animals you love!

Prefer to be a G.O.A.T and volunteer at one of the most fun events of the year?! Email Lynn at [email protected]. Volunteers will receive a free shirt or pollinator plant!

Shop from over 45,000 high quality items: infant and young children’s pre-loved clothes, toys, shoes, furniture and more from over 450 local families at once at up to 90% off retail prices!

The event features a 0.4-mile-walk around Conestee Park, food, music, local vendors who serve the community, and activities for children. Strides for GAPS is the organization’s largest fundraiser providing the Upstate community the opportunity to celebrate people living with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) while raising vital funds to further the GAPS mission.

About the 2024 Upstate Heart Walk
We’re all tied to heart disease and stroke in some way, and we must change that. Join your friends, family and co-workers to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.

By registering for the Heart Walk today, you are taking the first step to save lives. Every walker who joins, every dollar donated means more research, more people trained in lifesaving CPR, more medical breakthroughs and more champions for equitable health.

As we close out our first 100 years and begin the next, our work remains as important as ever. Join us in the next chapter of our relentless work to end heart disease and stroke.

We want to thank our proud sponsors of the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk. Their generosity helps us in our mission to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.

Are you looking for an excuse to knit or crochet for a good cause? Help make baby hats and blankets and adult hats, scarves, and slippers to support at-risk newborns and homeless adults.  Your handmade knitwear will keep our neighbors warm.  Volunteers with basic skills in knitting or crocheting are welcome. Please bring your own needles or crochet hooks and a pattern.

Check out Knit-n-Give on WLOS: http://wlos.com/news/only-on-wloscom/close-knit-group-of-women-use-their-talents-to-help-asheville-charities

Old Farmer’s Ball hosts family dances and waltzes at the Harvest House Community Center.

Hello Family Proves “It Takes a Village” in Spartanburg Hello Family believes that all parents and caregivers deserve a network of support. That’s why this unique organization is providing Spartanburg families with key resources and services focusing on care ranging from prenatal to age 5. With services ranging from text based assistance to community baby showers, to preschool readiness support, Hello Family is helping “Spartanburg’s youngest residents” get the best possible start to their journey! Find out more below!

Join us at the Greenville Convention Center for HireSouthCarolina Multi-School Alumni Career Fair! Connect with top employers from diverse industries including Fortune 500, startups, and government agencies. All majors, degrees, and career levels welcome. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore job prospects and network with leading organizations seeking full-time salaried employees.

Come hear music, poetry, and the stories of women on the frontlines. Share your own stories as part of Sister Love 4 Forests!

Across the South, women are at the heart of forest protection. Women are like forests. They have many important roles in our community. Women are the backbone of leadership. Women, especially women of color, have a unique perspective and voice in the movement. Like old growth forests, women have weathered and survived the most intense storms. For more info visit: https://bit.ly/sister-love-4-forests What does it takes to protect our forests? We’re bringing creativity, heart, and soul into the conversation. We’re honored to connect with one another. We’re honored to expand the reach of women’s voices throughout the US South and beyond. Come hear music, poetry, and the stories of women on the frontlines. Share your own stories of Sister Love 4 Forests. Sister Love 4 Forests uplifts women on the frontlines of forest destruction in the US South. We bring joy, sisterhood, and love to the protection of our beautiful Southern forests. Together, we can get beyond forest extraction and destruction. Let’s celebrate and share our love for the natural world. Together, let’s shift our relationship with nature to one of harmony and respect.

We bring joy, sisterhood, and love for our work. We protect our beautiful Southern forests from the many threats that they face. We guide others to do the same. Together, we can get beyond forest extraction and destruction. By celebrating and sharing our love for the natural world, we can shift our relationship with nature. From a relationship based on extraction to one of harmony and respect.

This virtual event brings together leaders and advocates to explore creativity, heart, and soul. Join the conversation about what it takes to protect our forests. We’re honored to connect with one another and with you!

Meet the Sister Love 4 Forests presenters and special guests:

• Dr. Florence Anoruo, Professor and Botanist, South Carolina State University
• Jill Cartwright, Hive Fund
• Rev. Dallas Conyers, US Climate Action Network
• Rev. Corine Mack, Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP
• Patricia Parr, Pee Dee Indian Tribe
• Loretta Slater, Whitney M. Slater Foundation
• Danna Smith, Dogwood Alliance
• Varis Woodberry, New Alpha Community Development Corporation

Join us as we expand the reach of women’s voices throughout the US South. We’ll have discussions, networking, and learning opportunities. Sister Love 4 Forests also includes music, poetry, and the stories of women on the frontlines. Tell us your story!

Bon Secours Wellness Arena and the Greenville Police Department are teaming up with Project Host to fill police cruisers with food items for the Project Host Soup Kitchen. Stop by the Arena on Wednesday, April 24th to drop off donations outside of the GSP International Airport Box Office.

Items needed include: canned vegetables (corn, beans, etc.), canned tomatoes, chicken, vegetable, and beef broth or stock, cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup, individual condiment packages, egg noodles, canned meats (chicken, tuna, etc.), canned fruit cocktail, pasta sauce, powdered mashed potatoes, steam table pans, cooking spray, canola oil, olive oil, paper napkins, plastic spoons/sporks, simple green cleaner.

Fill the Cruisers is part of the Arena’s Serving Together: Arena’s Giving Experience (STAGE) program that supports the community through special events and community engagement initiatives.

Project Host is a non-profit organization that uses food as a tool to nourish the hungry and train the unemployed in the greater Greenville area.