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in 2020, Green Cloud Technologies, a Greenville-based cloud technology solutions provider was one of 63 South Carolina-based companies included in the Inc. 5000… Here is the remarkable thing. Green Cloud has been on this list every year since 2016.

Fifteen years ago, Columbia Opportunity Resource (COR) was founded in Columbia, SC with the following goal: attract, retain and motivate talented people in the region. This week, COR is celebrating its 15 year anniversary by unveiling a brand refresh including refocused mission and vision statements.

Greenville Women Giving was founded in 2006 with a vision that women can collectively make a real difference in their local communities. Today, GWG has become the largest. women’s, collective giving organization in the country. Mary and Susan are two of the four Co-Chairs of Greenville Women Giving in 2020-2021.

There is a new restaurant in downtown Charleston. Bumpa’s is in a great location at 5 Cumberland Street in the heart of the French Quarter. Brothers Dan and Conor Sullivan started working on a business plan for their first ever restaurant. As fate would have it, all of those years of intense planning led to an opening date in the spring of 2020 during a global pandemic. The opening was put on hold...

There have been a lot of milestones in the progress of Columbia, South Carolina's Main Street over the past twenty years, and many who have contributed to this transformation. One of them is Matt Kennell, the President and CEO of the City Center Partnership. In this interview with Matt Kennell, we look at the past, the present reality of 2020 and future of Columbia, SC’s Main Street district. Desp...

Since its founding in 1996, Home Works has grown to $1 million a year organization with locations in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Aiken and Lake City. They provide home repair services to low income homeowners while mentoring youth in the process. In 2019, Home Works repaired 174 homes across South Carolina. - https://homeworksofamerica.org/

John Pursley is a senior lecturer in English at Clemson University. He was recently awarded a fellowship by the South Carolina Arts Commission in support of his latest project, a book-length poem that reflects on tumultuous change in America. Pursley, who is also director of the Clemson Literary Festival, was one of only two writers to receive the $5,000 fellowship for the 2021 fiscal year.

MIRCI is a full-service behavioral healthcare organization celebrating 60 years serving the Midlands. Its mission is to create pathways to recovery for individuals who are experiencing or at risk of mental illness and/or homelessness. Their programs and services are effective at transforming lives and they also make good business sense. In 2019, MIRCI programs resulted in $6.8M savings in reduced...

Author Sarah Blackman is the director of creative writing at the Fine Arts Center, an arts-centered public high school in Greenville, South Carolina. Her poetry and prose have been published in a number of journals, magazines, and anthologies. Her short story collection, Mother Box, was the winner of the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction prize and was published by FC2 in 2013. Her novel, Hex, cam...

Tanya Wideman-Davis is the co-artistic director of Wideman/Davis Dance and is also on faculty at The University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor Tanya has had an extensive career as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and collaborator. Her most recent work is entitled 'Migratuse Ataraxia', a show that combines elements of dance, antebellum architecture, the visual arts, history, and where...

Local Midlands non profit, FoodShare South Carolina, has been awarded a five-year grant to improve South Carolinians’ access to fresh, healthy food as a step toward decreasing the impact of diabetes in the state. The BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation awarded a total of $11.6 million to four organizations as part of Diabetes Free SC, an initiative to address disparities in diabetes...

The life sciences touch on a lot of industries that are at the forefront of the battle against the corona virus. Several great South Carolina companies and how they are adapting to the challenges, and opportunities presented by the pandemic. www.scbio.org

We first interviewed Casey Welch when he was starting a company based in Charleston, South Carolina called STEM Premier. That was in 2013. Since then, the company has changed its name to Tallo and in 2020, the company reached an important milestone. Today, over one million students and professionals showcase their skills in their online profile. The Tallo app assists students in designing a career...

James Busby, Visual Artist by Alan Cooper

Patrick Rice is currently studying music at Furman University. He grew up in a musical family that played bluegrass music and his first musical instrument was the banjo. The finger picking style of the banjo led him to a fascination with professional finger style guitar players who could incorporate melody, bass and rhythm into their playing. He shifted his focus to the classical guitar. In late J...

The 2019-2020 season marks Morihiko Nakahara’s 12th season as Music Director of the South Carolina Philharmonic and 17th season as Resident Conductor of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, Nakahara serves as Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In addition to his wide-ranging activities with these orchestras, Nakahara will also guest conduct the Port...

This week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new products to help small businesses. It is no secret that small businesses have suffered damaging effects during the the COVID-19 recession. Nearly one third of small businesses have gone out of business in these difficult times. Diana Doukas, Policy Manager at Facebook, talks about Facebook Shops, Live Shopping, and Loyalty Programs that are desi...

Heather MacQueen Jones is an oil painter living in the Charleston, South Carolina area. She paints both en plein air as well as in her studio. She paints for fun and she also does commissioned work. She loves to work one-on-one with people to find powerful memories and to replicate that memory into artwork. Two of her areas of focus for subject matter are waves and clouds.

Senior Resources is a non-profit organization that coordinates services and provides resources for seniors in the Columbia, SC region. As senior citizens continue to be at-risk of COVID-19 spread, we chatted with Andrew Boozer, the Executive Director of Senior Resources, to talk about the mission and programs at Senior Resources and how, with the help of its partners, they are adjusting to meet th...

Sweetgrass baskets are a 1,000 year old art form that originated on the West Coast of Africa. If you have ever been to the Charleston area, you might have seen sweetgrass baskets weavers along Highway 17 north of the city, or perhaps in the downtown Charleston Market. It was in the Charleston Market that I interviewed Corey Alston, a fifth generation sweetgrass basket weaver from Mount Pleasant, S...

Southern Way Catering was founded in 1982 by Jimmy Stevenson. It began as a small company with deep Southern Roots, and in 2020, it a company that has grown to 200 employees, 70 of whom are full-time. Their core business is providing catering to events. At the end of March, all events in South Carolina were canceled because of the Coronavirus.  Last week, Southern Way announced a partnership with...

Amos Hoffman is originally from Israel. He lived in New York for ten years playing jazz with many of the city’s great jazz musicians. In 2014, Amos and his wife moved to Columbia, SC where he has been a big part of the growing local jazz scene. In this episode you will hear Amos playing both jazz guitar as well as the middle Eastern instrument, the oud.

Misty Farmer, Make-A-Wish South Carolina by Alan Cooper

Kirkland Smith is a classical painter who began creating assemblages of post-consumer waste almost by accident. She was looking for a way to highlight the problem of consumerism in an environmental landscape contest. To paint and its effects in a disposable society, she decided to use the waste as her paint.

Tom McNally, Dean of Libraries and Miranda Bennett, Associate Dean for Collections at the University of South Carolina talk about the remarkable renovation to Level 4 of the Thomas Cooper Library. At lot of books went into storage and a lot of cool furniture came in. The renovation was designed in partnership with student government and provided by local company, McWaters.