Rachael Smith
Reporter at The News & Advance
Reporter at @newsadvance Covers business and nonprofits and all around good feels. Enjoys a good taco, a great joke and the best people
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6 days ago |
newsadvance.com | Rachael Smith
Board members and staff from the Virginia Chamber of Commerce visited Lynchburg this week as part of their Blueprint Virginia 2035 tour. A Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance meeting on Wednesday discussed the initiative, which focuses on advanced manufacturing, business climate and corporate sustainability.
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1 week ago |
newsadvance.com | Rachael Smith
A new kind of thrift store has popped up at 829 Main St. in downtown Lynchburg and it’s not a typical secondhand shop. The Scrappy Elephant, a creative reuse center, is a new eco-friendly hub focused on keeping art supplies out of the landfill and putting them back into the hands of teachers, artists, children and crafters at low cost. “I was an art teacher, and when I had my daughter, I just kind of freaked out about climate change,” owner and founder Sarah Sweet said.
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1 week ago |
newsadvance.com | Rachael Smith
For more than three decades, the Challenged Sports Exchange has been quietly transforming lives across Central Virginia. The organization began as a single act of inclusion for one young man in a wheelchair but since has evolved into a year-round nonprofit organization serving nearly 100 individuals with disabilities. And if you ask longtime volunteer and vice chairman Gail Ballowe, it’s all about one thing: fun. “Our motto has always been and continues to be, ‘all about fun,’” Ballowe said.
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1 week ago |
newsadvance.com | Rachael Smith
A well-planned and time-consuming initiative to ease the child care crisis in Central Virginia has hit an unexpected roadblock. The United Way of Central Virginia (UWCV) has lost a $283,000 AmeriCorps operational grant that was intended to support staffing for a new child care center and expand services across multiple early learning sites. The decision threatens to delay a project that could have impacted more than 500 children and their families.
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2 weeks ago |
newsadvance.com | Rachael Smith
The Salvation Army of the Greater Lynchburg Area is facing an unprecedented financial challenge due to a 25% decrease in donations over the past quarter. As a result, the organization is at risk of having to reduce or temporarily suspend vital programs that serve Lynchburg and the surrounding counties, a news release states.
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