Member Directory

Our Members are investing in themselves today for a stronger future tomorrow. They've demonstrated their commitment to effective leadership, management, and collaboration by becoming Members. We invite your organization to participate in the Center, too. Use the search options below to find a Member organization.
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Open Table Ministry seeks out and guides people experiencing homelessness and poverty toward long-term health and wholeness by building ongoing trusting relationships, meeting practical and personal needs, making connections to community resources, and bridging critical gaps in the social services system.

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Durham County
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Open Way Learning (OWL) is a 501(c)3 education nonprofit with a relentless focus on helping schools and other learning communities develop, sustain, and scale cultures of learner-centered innovation that better prepare students for the realities of the 4th Industrial Revolution, especially students historically furthest from opportunity.

Our mission is to co-design innovative school cultures
Our vision is that all learners can change their world. Innovative schools empower that change to happen, now!

The premise behind Open Way Learning’s work is based on three core beliefs and values:

1. Authentic innovation comes not from the traditional, inconsistent application of “buzzword strategies,” but when a learning community first attends to the difficult, but necessary development and the fostering of a school culture that allows continuous improvement and innovation to thrive.
2. Cultures of learner-centered innovation will thrive in schools that have the following four characteristics in place: a shared, living mission and vision; an intentional willingness to embrace collective leadership; a deep sense of systemic collaboration across the entire learning community; and the free and open exchange of ideas and resources. These elements then enable an atmosphere of powerful teaching and learning where all students are able to find relevance and meaning in their school experience.
3. The talent and skills needed to grow a culture of innovation already exist in any school or district. But rather than being encumbered by the institutionalized inertia of the status quo, schools can leverage these skills and talents through the application of “the open source way” (transparency, inclusivity, adaptability, collaboration, and community), thus catalyzing crowdsourced, positive disruption to better prepare students for a rapidly changing world.

OWL lives its mission, vision, and values by advocating for more open, equitable, and innovative teaching and learning strategies that have been proven to work through case studies, research, and other applicable evidence from and for public and independent k-12 schools. Such learner-centered strategies include an emphasis on experiential learning; a culture of relationships, belonging, and agency; a mindset of growth and continuous improvement; an emphasis on durable success skills; individualized mastery of academic content; and a commitment to open design as a driver of equity and excellence.

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Clay County
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To love and empower victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Operation Pretty things is designed to be an on-call resource to shelters and victims of abuse by meeting their immediate needs, as well as offering life-impacting gifts, services and support.
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New Hanover County
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To feed the hungry in body and spirit.

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Pamlico County
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Recognizing the need to prepare children differently for success in the 21st century, Operation Xcel provides future-focused after-school, summer, and mentorship programs. We promote academic development and character growth through individual and target-based objectives, with a focus on individual development and achievement.

We are guided by a strong work ethic and a dedication to community betterment. Through our academic and enrichment programs, we demonstrate our commitment
• to providing equal access to quality educational resources,
• to supporting diversity of thought,
• to creating a strong foundation for the development of lifelong learners,
• to fostering civic engagement, and
• to encouraging career mindfulness in our youth.

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Guilford County
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To improve ways to serve your primary health care needs, quickly and in affordable way.

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Edgecombe County
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Orange Congregations in Mission is a private, non-profit ministry composed of almost 50 congregations in northern Orange County, NC that strives to meet the emergency needs of those who find themselves in a crisis situation and provide a helping hand to those in need.

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Orange County
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All services to people with disabilities are free.

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Orange County
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Orange County Living Wage is a volunteer-driven nonprofit working to promote a living wage in Orange County, North Carolina.

Through our employer certification program, we recognize local businesses and organizations who pay the 2023 living wage of $16.60 per hour, or $15.10 per hour if the employer pays at least half the cost of health insurance. The living wage rate is adjusted annually.

Inspired by the success of the nation’s leading living wage certification program, Asheville’s Just Economics, OCLW formed in 2015 to address the effects of the state’s unrealistically low wage floor: the $7.25 federal minimum wage, which has not changed since 2009.

Location:
Orange County
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To empower disenfranchised individuals in efforts to bridge the gaps between exclusiveness to inclusiveness and from welfare to well-fare.

Location:
Mecklenburg County