“You really get to know these kids. They respond well in that environment, even the hesitant ones.” —Stacy Shannon, founder of GoKart Kids It was one of those lightbulb moments for Stacy Shannon. A single mother at the time, she was…
by Samantha Gratton
photography by Eamon Queeney
“If we’re supported in our professions, we tend to be happier in them.” —Margaret ‘Austin’ Macfarlane, founder and CEO, My Girl Friday Margaret ‘Austin’ Macfarlane was a seasoned nanny when she founded My Girl Friday. Her business is a…
by Will Lingo
photography by Smith Hardy
by Katherine Poole
photography by Eamon Queeney
Kaitlin Ryan’s polymer clay creations make for spunky statement jewelry
Raleigh’s Imagine Circus
by Catherine Currin
photographs by Eamon Queeney
Since 1983, Barbara Brown has been “loving on the babies,” as she says, in the early childhood program at Edenton Street United Methodist Church. That is 35 years of holding fussy babies, rocking them to sleep, feeding them everything from…
“Growing up, I read all of the books about kids with cancer and everybody died. It was frustrating … because I lived. And I knew a lot of kids who lived.” Kati Gardner was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare and…
There’s more hope: the second Raleigh HOPE Inside center is now open in North Raleigh on New Hope Road. The center provides complimentary financial education to young people and low-income families. A branch of national organization Operation HOPE, visitors to…
by J. Michael Welton
photographs by Smith Hardy
“I don’t necessarily know what everyone does or even their names, but I recognize them, and that makes you feel part of a community.”
—Casey Gallas, barista, lucettegrace
by Samantha Gratton
photographs by Ben McKeown