by marketing | Jun 15, 2018 | GIFT Stories, Spotlight, Uncategorized
Sometimes people need a helping hand, and THRIVE Peninsula has been successfully extending their arms to the Hampton Roads area for over forty years! Their organization provides an array of educational and economic assistance to members of the community who are in...
by marketing | Jun 8, 2018 | GIFT Stories, Spotlight, Uncategorized
In Elementary school, we learn how to read, spell, write in cursive (which my younger friends have told me is not a thing anymore), etc. But at Yorktown Elementary, you also get the opportunity to learn how to track hurricanes! Ms. Kathy Lennartz leads the way in her...
by marketing | Jun 1, 2018 | GIFT Stories, Spotlight, Uncategorized
We all have that one teacher in high school who always pushed us to be our best, who has a special place in our hearts even many years later. For the students involved in Phoebus High School’s Student Council Association, that teacher would be Ms....
by marketing | May 25, 2018 | GIFT Stories, Spotlight
Recently, our President and Trailblazer Jennifer Brown got the opportunity to volunteer her time at the Moton Early Childhood Center in Hampton. There, she read the book “Beachy and Me” by Bob Staake to multiple classes of early elementary schoolers. This...
by marketing | May 11, 2018 | GIFT Stories, Spotlight
Every school has a Parent-Teacher Association. Many people have no idea what they do for their community or their kids other than send out the occasional newsletter home. Meet the Denbigh High School PTA/PTSA, consisting of a handful of parents who saw a need in their...