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Overcoming homelessness: how two Bucs defied the odds

Homeless. It is a word packed with stereotypes and visuals of tent cities, stranded shopping carts by the woods, or card...

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CSU alum Catherine Nielsen leads a drum circle for students of all abilities in a school setting.

Connecting through creative arts

Catherine Compton Nielsen, MT-BC ‘03 and her entrepreneurial husband, Chris Nielsen, started The Palm Beach Music Ther...

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Taylor Irby runs an interior design business, Courtney Taylor Styled, in addition to her nonprofit

Alumna brings beauty to her world

Taylor Irby ‘09 runs East of These, a nonprofit; Courtney Taylor Styled, an interior design business; co-founded June...

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Recent CSU grad Sydney Kinard has made it her mission to get the word out about completing the Medical ID function on smart phones

Graduate shares importance of phone med IDs

Recent grad Sydney Kinard has made it her mission to get the word out about completing the Medical ID function on smart...

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The Alice Gombwer Foundation, established by CSU men's basketball alumnus Paul Gombwer, provides for orphans and widows in Nigeria

Foundation supports Nigerian orphans

Paul Gombwer ‘15 is an assistant store manager for Home Depot and runs The Alice Gombwer Foundation. He and his wife...

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Receiving the best medicine

Cate Carroll ‘91 is the State Director of Intellectual/Developmental Disability Services for Delta Community Supports...

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Changing lives through hope

Derek Brown, PhD, LPC ‘04 is executive director of the Arkansas Baptist Children’s Homes and Family Ministries. He h...

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Stacy Brown '09 leads a group of children to the Children’s Museum. Brown is the director of operations at Metanoia CDC, a nonprofit in North Charleston. Photo provided

Brown '09 is building bridges

Stacy Brown ‘09 is director of operations at Metanoia CDC, a nonprofit in North Charleston. She holds an MBA from The...

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A Music City mission

The sound of the tornado siren was nothing surprising. Every time we get a storm, the sirens go on and off intermittentl...

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Bernie Mazyck ’81 graduated from Charleston Southern and helped found SCACED

Alum's work rooted in call to help low-income

Bernie Mazyck ’81 helped found the South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development in 1994. He is curren...

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