Maggie Marshall

Reconsidered Goods is nestled on the corner of the Food Lion on Spring Garden Street, across the street from Pho Hien Vuong. Unlike its surrounding businesses, Reconsidered Goods is a 501c nonprofit organization that takes donated materials and helps divert them from landfills, putting them into the hands of artists, makers, teachers, children, and other reuse advocates to create something new.

It’s been said before, that “it takes a village to raise a child” and D-UP, a nonprofit program whose core mission is to develop essential life skills, instill nutrition knowledge, and empower individuals to excel in life, takes that saying to heart. What began as a Basketball Fundamentals and Skills Program in High Point in 2007 to help kids with character development and provide them with healthy life skills, quickly developed into something greater than life.

The Jackson Library on the University of North Carolina - Greensboro’s campus is getting a new look. Starting in mid-December the renowned Jackson Library has started the beginning of phase 1 of its reconstruction process — courtesy of funding from the N.C. Legislature and signed by the governor. A lot will change within the library, but the beautiful marble entrance will remain the same.