- Giving 101 – #126: Redefining Heroism in the Age of COVID
-By Paul Lessard
These last couple months have presented a startling paradigm shift for all us throughout the nation and here in High Point.
It’s been a sobering realization that a microscopic ...
- Giving 101 – Children, Education and Ending Violence
Violence is a complex issue that will demand a total long-term commitment from our entire community to successfully address.
I was pleased to see that the High Point Enterprise highlighted ...
- Giving 101 – Draelos Scholars: STEM plus life skills
In July of this year, I and a couple of my staff members had the pleasure of watching the presentations of the 2019 Draelos Scholars Summer Research Interns.
This program ...
- Giving 101 – Peace like a River
n a very hot Saturday morning this past June, out in the parking lot of High Point University’s Community Center, I witnessed an inspiring effort to stop the senseless gun ...
- Giving 101 – The key to successful economic development in High Point
I don’t believe there has ever been a time in High Point’s history in which so many positive developments are converging at one time.
- Giving 101 – Angels on our Shoulders
There is nothing I have
encountered thus far in my life as heart wrenching as losing a cherished loved
one.
Two summers ago my family
and I were saying goodbye to my father ...
- On Dr. Otis Tillman
Moral courage is perhaps one of the most significant gifts we can give to our community. It is, in many respects, a sharing of one’s heart which has the capacity ...
- MISSION
Ema Mae Bowman, center, visits with Paul Lessard’s family after Paul and Jack rescued her from drowning in her car in raging floodwater.
The older I get the more I believe ...
- The Gift of our “Greatest Generation”
Those of us who have known and loved members of what Tom Brokaw so aptly described as our Greatest Generation have seen what I believe is the very best in ...
- How to give the gift of running
Next Tuesday a milestone will be realized when GO FAR celebrates its 15th year of impacting our local kids with the gift of running.
I can still remember the day Robin ...
