Frontline Worker of the Year

VERONICA RANKIN

Director of Nursing, Clinical Nurse Leader Program Administrator, Magnet Program Director

Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center

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Educational Leader of the Year

MARY QUINN

Director of Financial Education

Common Wealth Charlotte

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Community Leader of the Year

JARRIS “JB” BELL

Executive Director

Christ Centered Community Counseling

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Community Engagement Award

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY STUDENT NURSES ASSOCIATION

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Community Partner of the Year

COMMUNITY CULINARY SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTE

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2021 Heart of Charlotte Award Honorees

Karen Calder, Executive Director, Classroom Central

Donna Dunlap, Chief Executive Officer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas

Raukell Robinson, Family & Community Engagement Specialist, Central 1 Learning Community, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools

Arthritis Patient Services, dba Arthritis Services

EmpowHERment, Inc.

Families Forward Charlotte

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2021 Grant Recipients

EMPOWHERMENT, INC.

Leadership Program

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INNOVATE CHARLOTTE

CO.STARTERS Program

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PROMISING PAGES

Booktoberfest Community Book Drive Sponsorship

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2021 Presenting Partner

Tryon Medical Partners is a medical practice dedicated to maintaining trusted patient-doctor relationships, providing excellent and innovative care, and giving patients the choices in healthcare that they deserve. The physicians who comprise Tryon Medical Partners practice internal and family medicine, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, rheumatology and sleep medicine. Tryon Medical Partners has nine locations to serve the greater Charlotte area. For more information on Tryon Medical Partners, and to register as a patient, visit tryonmed.com.