{"id":1113,"date":"2022-05-11T12:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/?post_type=furman-update&#038;p=1113"},"modified":"2022-05-11T12:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:42:02","slug":"spartanburg-northside-initiative-receives-riley-institutes-onesouthcarolina-partners-in-progress-award","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/news\/spartanburg-northside-initiative-receives-riley-institutes-onesouthcarolina-partners-in-progress-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartanburg Northside Initiative receives Riley Institute&#8217;s OneSouthCarolina Partners in Progress Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>FOR INFORMATION:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Katie Quine<br \/>\nMarketing and Communications Manager<br \/>\nThe Riley Institute at Furman University<br \/>\n864.294.3368; <a href=\"mailto:katie.quine@furman.edu\">katie.quine@furman.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MAY 11, 2022 \u2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPARTANBURG NORTHSIDE INITIATIVE RECEIVES RILEY INSTITUTE\u2019S ONESOUTHCARLOLINA PARTNERS IN PROGRESS AWARD <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The initiative was recognized at a special forum in Columbia for advancing social and economic progress in South Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. \u2014 The Spartanburg Northside Initiative (SNI) received the inaugural OneSouthCarolina Partners in Progress Award from Furman University\u2019s Riley Institute at the first annual Building OneSouthCarolina forum on May 10 in Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The annual award recognizes signature landmark achievements that have advanced social and economic progress in South Carolina. Former United States secretary of education and former South Carolina governor Dick Riley presented the award to the Northside Voyagers, a group of resident leaders, and other SNI principals after they spoke in a series of panels about the origins, successes, failures, and future of the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>SNI, one of the nation\u2019s most ambitious neighborhood revitalization efforts, has taken an \u201cinside-out\u201d approach to community transformation in working alongside Northside residents to address poverty and increase wellbeing and opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe residents have a voice in how their community develops,\u201d Riley said. \u201cThat voice is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The forum was attended by more than 200 leaders from across the state, many of whom sought to gain insight and inspiration relevant to their communities\u2019 own complex challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all in this room because we see a fractured world where opportunity doesn\u2019t come to everybody,\u201d said Bill Barnet, board chair of Northside Development Group and former Spartanburg mayor, who was one of seven speakers at the forum. \u201cWe want to make this place better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information,\u00a0contact Katie Quine at 864.294.3368 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:katie.quine@furman.edu\">katie.quine@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Riley Institute at Furman University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furman University\u2019s Richard W. Riley Institute advances social and economic progress in South Carolina and beyond by building leadership for a diverse society, hosting expert speakers to broaden perspectives on critical issues, supporting public education, and creating knowledge through community solutions-focused research. It is committed to nonpartisanship in all it does and to a rhetoric-free, facts-based approach to change. Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\">www.furman.edu\/riley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initiative was recognized at a special forum in Columbia for advancing social and economic progress in South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1116,"template":"","update-categories":[18,26],"class_list":["post-1113","furman-update","type-furman-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","furman-update-category-news-release","furman-update-category-speaker-award-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-update"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-update-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-categories?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}