Commissioners Community Circle Award WorldLegacy

by | Aug 3, 2015 | Children, Environment, Family, Health, Press Release

Commissioners Community Circle Award WorldLegacy

Durham Board of County Commissioners August 24, 2009 Regular Session
Presentation of the Commissioners Community Circle Award
The Commissioners Community Circle Award was designed as a way to recognize county departments and community organizations and programs for the extraordinary services provided to Durham’s citizens.

Chairman Page acknowledged The WorldLegacy as an organization created to empower people by providing personal development and discovery support services. The center would be awarded the Commissioners Community Circle Award due to the numerous service projects in the Durham community.

Chairman Page made the following remarks:
“It is my pleasure to recognize the WorldLegacy as our fourth recipient of the
Commissioners Community Circle Award.

The Commissioners Community Circle Award enables the Durham Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) to give special recognition to community organizations and county departments that have gone above and beyond to promote positive change in the Durham community.

This evening, the WorldLegacy, has been selected to receive this award, as they have exhibited excellence in the areas of productivity, creativity and commitment.

The WorldLegacy’s Leadership Program has contributed more than 27 pro bono projects in the Durham community. Among the many projects the WorldLegacy has made possible is their project to enhance the efficiency of the Family Center of Northern Durham, through a major community service project to build a children’s park.

This project included the delivery of services at no cost to the Family Center of Northern Durham. The WorldLegacy’s teams NC111 and NC110 enrolled local businesses and volunteers in the community to donate money, time and services with the projects — completing the children’s park within a weekend.
The made over children’s park includes many new additions such as a bike path and paint station.

In July, I had the opportunity to witness the WorldLegacy Leadership Program’s efforts first hand when I attended the children’s park ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Family Center of Northern Durham.

I was impressed by the sheer beauty of the children’s park. Children at the Family Center now have a colorful and exciting place to play and explore. The children’s park has also improved daycare services for the Family Center of Northern Durham’s clients.
WorldLegacy, the BOCC applauds your efforts to improve the lives of our citizens.
Representatives from the WorldLegacy join us tonight to receive the Commissioners Community Circle Award.

The WorldLegacy is at the heart of this award as you strive to improve and enhance our community. Our Board and your organization share the desire to make our community a better place to live. We say thank you and the WorldLegacy for your great work in our Community; Congratulations!”

The Commissioners celebrated the WorldLegacy for the successful project that was completed at the Family Center of Northern Durham. The WorldLegacy’s efforts helped to transform a simple backyard into a colorful children’s park that drastically improved daycare services for the Family Center of Northern Durham’s clients. The Board saluted the WorldLegacy for the efforts to provide positive change in the lives of Durham County Citizens.

Dr. Rob Katz, WorldLegacy Director, accepted the Community Circle Award from the Board. He stated that the center’s passion is to rekindle people’s passion for life. He continued to express gratitude for the award.

Chairman Page thanked Dr. Katz for his services to the community.

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WorldLegacy Project at Boys and Girls Club

by | Aug 2, 2015 | Boys and Girls Club, Boys and Girls Club Press, boysandgirlsclubpr, Family, Press Release, Youth

John Avery Boys and Girls Club

Two WorldLegacy leadership teams have created projects at John Avery Boys and Girls Club in Durham, NC. and a third team created a project in Raleigh, NC. The first project was in March of 2002 and NC44 created a playground area with a large, extensive and complicated playground structure for the children. Budget: $47,000. In February of 2006, NC80 installed a new floor, and painted and installed custom shelving. Budget: $12,000. The NC145 Leadership Team partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of Wake County to revitalize the clubhouses with new paint, furnishings and facility upgrades.

Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) September 25, 2013

A team of eight people is leading the charge in creating an extreme makeover of the clubhouses of the Boys and Girls Club of Wake County, 605 N. Raleigh Blvd., Raleigh, NC. The NC145 Leadership Team from the WorldLegacy in Chapel Hill, NC are partnering with the Boys and Girls Club of Wake County to revitalize the clubhouses with new paint, furnishings and facility upgrades They are inviting the larger community to join with them in this creative and visionary endeavor.

This project is a part of WorldLegacy’s three-month leadership development program. WorldLegacy believes that the most effective leaders lead from their hearts, with a clear vision and a firm intention. In the Leadership Program, the participants are coached to stand outside the ordinary in order to achieve a quantum leap in results, personally, professionally, and in the domain of making an impact on this planet.

What makes this project unique is that the WorldLegacy Leadership team designs the project from start to finish in less than one month, cannot use any of their own money, involves the community to do 75% of the work and has to have it completed in two days! Projects are born from the world vision of each team and usually have budgets that exceed $30,000. This project will provide the children of the Boys and Girls Club with eleven freshly painted, clean rooms with new ping pong tables, tables and chairs for homework and art projects, a new sofa, whiteboards, and other general repairs.

WorldLegacy teams focus on projects that benefit children, environment, animals, elderly, family, health, youth and world community. WorldLegacy’s NC145 leadership team selected the Boys and Girls Club of Raleigh through an application process that examined need, potential and philosophical fit.

In every community, boys and girls are left to find their own recreation and companionship in the streets. An increasing number of children are at home with no adult care or supervision. The Boys and Girls Club of Wake County provides a safe, loving place for kids to go after school for recreation and to work on homework. They positively impact over 1300 kids within the two Raleigh locations alone.

The NC145 Leadership team invites you to make this “Extreme Makeover” project possible on the weekend starting September 28, 2013 at 7:00 am Eastern Time extending through Sunday, September 29, 2013. Work will start at 7:00 am on Saturday and Sunday. Everyone is invited to come out, make a difference, and have this vision become a reality. The clubhouse makeover will send a powerful message to these children that they matter, are loved and are valued. WorldLegacy’s NC145 team will celebrate the completion of the project with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, September 30, 2013 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm.

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WorldLegacy Extreme Makeover Ronald McDonald House

by | Aug 1, 2015 | Article, Children, Health, Press Release, Ronald McDonald, ronald mcdonald press release

Ronald McDonald House

The NC87 Leadership Program chose the Ronald McDonald House in Durham for their project. They completely redesigned the playroom, including new flooring, a “castle” for children to play in, and toys and books. Budget: $18,000. The NC149 Leadership created a beautiful garden with over 100 plants and a walkway to allow families to feel at peace and full of life. They planted butterfly-attracting plants, a walkway, a water feature with soothing sounds of water, and seating that provided seating to encourage a space of relaxation and peace. A beautiful gazebo and two sheds were repaired. In addition, the team installed “DaVinci” artwork frames in ten bedrooms to encourage children to creatively and artistically express their Journey through art.

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WorldLegacy Extreme Makeover Ronald McDonald House Ronald McDonald House in Durham NC will be getting an extreme makeover by WorldLegacy’s NC149 leadership team. In only two days, the team will create a Serenity Garden and other upgrades for children and families to experience love, beauty and peace.

Children are our most valuable resource.’- Herbert Hoover Durham, NC (PRWEB) August 20, 2014 Ronald McDonald House will receive a powerful transformation of their facility on the weekend of August 22 – 24. Members of the NC149 Leadership Team from the WorldLegacy in Chapel Hill, NC are creating an extreme makeover of the Ronald McDonald House because they have a vision of uniting the world with love and empowerment. This extreme makeover project is the culmination of WorldLegacy’s three-month leadership development program. NC149 is committed to creating a safe and beautiful space for families to come together and feel loved and supported as they are going through challenging times. They want families to experience abundant love and connection to each other and the world around them. Their intention is to create a space of peace, reflection and calm in the storm of life’s challenges. The WorldLegacy Leadership Program is a three-month program designed to develop skills in leadership, enrollment and contribution. What makes this project unique is that the WorldLegacy Leadership team of four individuals must completely design the project from start to finish, cannot use any of their own money, must involve the community to do 75% of the work and also have it complete in one weekend! Every leadership team of the WorldLegacy creates a project that focuses on a domain such as family, children, health, community, animals, agriculture or the world. The NC149 team chose a project in the domain of children. They selected The Ronald McDonald House because it supports families with children who face immense emotional, physical and financial challenges. Knowing that the Ronald McDonald House of Durham will be there to support them in a safe and caring environment helps to alleviate some these challenges. Built with love, the Ronald McDonald House of Durham offers a comforting home away from home and a community of support for seriously ill children and their families. The NC149 Leadership Team will create a beautiful garden with over 100 plants and a walkway to allow families to feel at peace and full of life. They will plant butterfly-attracting plants, create a walkway, install a water feature with soothing sounds of water and provide seating to encourage a space of relaxation and peace. They will repair and beautify a gazebo and two sheds. In addition, the NC149 Leadership team will install “DaVinci” artwork frames in ten bedrooms to encourage children to creatively and artistically express their Journey through art. The NC 149 Leadership Team asks for your help to make this life-changing project possible the weekend starting at 12:00 pm Friday, August 22, 2014 and concluding with the ribbon cutting at 5:00 pm on Sunday, August 24, 2014. The team will begin the work at 12 pm on Friday and then 8 am on both Saturday and Sunday at 506 Alexander Ave, Durham, NC 27705. Everyone is invited to come out and be a part of creating something magical for these children and their families.

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WorldLegacy Constructs Garden for Ronald McDonald House
Aug. 24, 2014 @ 05:46 PM
The Herald-Sun | Christine T. Nguyen

Liz Anderson of Chapel Hill paints clouds on a shed at the Ronald McDonald House of Durham on Sunday, August 24, 2014. Members of the NC149 Leadership Team from the WorldLegacy and other volunteers spent the weekend creating a serenity garden, painting a gazebo and sheds.
DURHAM —
Jacqueline Thomas had two weeks to raise money to build a Serenity Garden at the Ronald McDonald House in Durham.
She also had to have the community complete 75 percent of the work and finish the garden in one weekend.
Thomas, a resident of Durham, is part of the WorldLegacy Leadership’s NC149 program, which completed building a Serenity Garden and other upgrades to the Ronald McDonald House throughout the weekend at an estimated cost of $25,000.
“We live our word,” said Kaye Randall, an instructor for the Chapel Hill-based WorldLegacy, which provides workshops for professional and leadership development. “If we say it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.”
Enrollees in the three-month program must completely design a program from start to finish that will leave a lasting impact in the community and cannot raise money to complete the project until two weeks before the project’s construction begins, Randall said.
She said donations have been coming from all over to complete the garden, from Maryland down to South Carolina.
Toward the end of construction Sunday, Thomas gathered around with members of the WorldLegacy and Ronald McDonald House, all of whom began crying and hugging.

“When I came in to the (Ronald McDonald House,) I felt the love, the warmth,” Thomas said. “(And) the openness and healing that this house brings to these families.” Some 30 volunteers began construction for the garden on Friday around noon and worked late into the night Friday and Saturday, said Nancy Jones, director of development at communications at the Ronald McDonald House.
The house, which has provided meals, housing and entertainment to families of seriously ill children for 34 years, expanded two years ago from 29 to 55 bedrooms, Jones said. About a year ago, volunteers at the house developed a vision for a garden at the house and Jones said the WorldLegacy has made that vision a reality.

“(This) was really just access to a parking lot,” Jones said, pointing at the space of the Serenity Garden, which now houses a variety of ferns and other plants, a two-story sculpture donated by artist Guy Solie and a structure with flowing water.
The newly constructed garden continues around the front of the house with more plants, a renovated gazebo and a walkway.
“It’s really going to enhance the experience of the children and families staying here,” Jones said.
Randall said the projects’ guidelines are intended to put pressure on the program’s enrollees and can sometimes cause skepticism in terms of the time frame to complete projects.
“The lump of coal when it’s pressure, pressure, pressure, then, a diamond,” Randall said. “That’s what this is.”

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WorldLegacy – Wake Interfaith Hospitality

by | Jan 30, 2015 | Press Release, Wake Interfaith, Youth

Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network, Raleigh, NC

The NC43 WorldLegacy Project included major renovation of a teen room, guest office, lobby, and day room. These renovations allowed homeless families to be empowered during their stay. January 2001. A second project by NC78 retrofitted an aging playground and completely refurbished a nursery and a playroom. November 2005.

Places to Play: A Celebration of New Play Areas for Local Homeless Children

Raleigh, NC — On Monday, November 21st at 9am, a ribbon cutting ceremony will be held to celebrate the successful renovation of three play areas for children at the Wake Interfaith Hospitality (WIHN) day center. Thanks to volunteer efforts, children of homeless families will have fun, safe, and supportive environments to grow in while their families make a sustainable transition to independent living.
Two weekends ago, a team of community members, WIHN families and staff, and a team from the WorldLegacy’s Leadership Program collaborated to retrofit an aging playground, refurbish a nursery and playroom, and raise funds to support project costs and purchase new furniture for the WIHN center.
“WIHN is a vital member of our community,” according to Peggy Mattingly, one of the project organizers. “To support their efforts, and make a difference for the children who use the center, is an honor and a privilege.”
The WorldLegacy project work, including removing sand, laying mulch, repairing fences, adding new
landscaping, installing new carpet, painting walls, raising money, and much more was completed in two full days of work with only two weeks of planning. The project was capped by adding painted hand prints of children at the center along the walls of the playroom. This was indeed an extreme makeover.
The ribbon cutting ceremony will mark the completion of the project, and will be held at 903 Method Rd, Raleigh, NC 27606. Volunteers and WIHN staff will be available for comments and interviews immediately following.
Where: 903 Method Rd, Raleigh, NC 27606
Driving directions: Western Blvd to Method Rd, WIHN is on the right on the corner of Method Rd and Jackson immediately past the Food Lion.
When: Media should arrive by 8:45 a.m. Monday, Nov 21, to be in place in time for a 9:00 a.m. start.
Parking: All media vehicles can park on Method Rd.
About Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network
Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network, Inc. (WIHN) is a private, nonprofit organization
designed to help alleviate the crisis of homelessness. WIHN helps homeless families achieve independent living by providing shelter, meals, case management, and educational services and promotes awareness of homelessness.
About The WorldLegacy
The WorldLegacy, a Morrisville based coaching company with a vision, whose mission is to empower people to live their dreams and-in doing so- create extraordinary communities and organizations around them. For more information about the WorldLegacy, please call 919-678-6000.

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WorldLegacy Project SeeSaw Studio

by | Jan 9, 2015 | Press Release, SeeSaw Studio, seesawPR, Youth

SeeSaw Studio, Durham, NC

NC86’s Leadership project created a state-of-the art computer laboratory for this center that enables disadvantaged teens to develop professional skills in art and design. October 2006.

SeeSaw Studio

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 3, 2006

CONTACTS:
Pat Hoffman, Executive Director, SeeSaw Studio

pat@seesawstudio.org, phoffman6@nc.rr.com

SeeSaw Studio, a training center in Durham enabling disadvantaged teens to develop professional skills in art and design, is awarded a state-of-the art computer laboratory.

DURHAM – At SeeSaw Studio disadvantaged teens, some referred by the court system, have the opportunity to turn their lives around by preparing themselves for careers in the art and design professions. SeeSaw Studio’s new computer laboratory and state-of-the art design software will be inaugurated Monday, October 16 at a ribbon cutting ceremony at 6:00 pm at SeeSaw Studio, 326 W. Geer Street, Durham, NC. Students will display their portfolios and speak to the public about how SeeSaw Studio training has turned their lives around.

SeeSaw Studio’s mission is to teach design, entrepreneurship, and life skills to inner city youth and providing a safe haven and business and educational opportunities. SeeSaw Studio holds public workshops and an apprenticeship programs for more than 300 pre-teen and teenage youth each year. These workshops address the lack of opportunities for career training in art and design for low-income youth and the chronically high number of teen dropouts from Durham schools.

SeeSaw Studio is the only design and entrepreneurship program in North Carolina that makes available opportunities and training traditionally not found in public school curricula. The program offers opportunities for young designers to create and sell their own work and empowers them to dream big and take personal responsibility for their success. Young designers receive training and experience in a variety of skills including graphic design, Web design, silk screen-printing, welding, and illustration, as well as portfolio preparation, technical writing, and marketing and sales. Students practice interview skills where they dress in business attire, fill out applications, solicit references and apply for jobs.

The new computers, printers and design software were donated by a leadership team from The WorldLegacy in Morrisville, NC that chose SeeSaw Studio for their community service project to promote teen empowerment. WorldLegacy is a coaching company that provides personal effectiveness and leadership workshops for people to live extraordinary lives.