Interpreter Job Announcment
Interpreter/Translator/Popular Educator English Spanish Position At t the Highlander Research and Education Center New Market, TN Highlander Research and Education Center has worked for 77 years in the southeastern United States to promote progressive social change. As the demographics of our region dramatically shifted due to immigration, we began to work more intensively with immigrant […]
Highlander Announces New Staff!
Highlander is excited to introduce our new Development & Communications Team. Please join us in welcoming Jardana Peacock and Marquez Rhyne by making a tax-deductible contribution to Highlander today, knowing that your generosity helps sustain Highlander’s critical efforts to continuing supporting grassroots people and communities working for change in the South and Appalachia. Jardana Peacock […]
$10,000 New Donor Match
$ 10,000 New Donor Match – Each One Reach One Highlander is pleased to announce a $10,000 New Donor Match. Three friends of Highlander have stretched beyond their normal giving and pooled their resources to establish a new donor match. Dollar for dollar, they will match every gift from a new donor between now and […]
Fundraising Benefit Honors Board Members
• Two excellent reasons to show your love • Please join the Highlander board and staff for a fundraising benefit to honor two leaders whose service to Highlander’s board was above and beyond, Doug Gamble & Neil McBride 6:00 – 8:00 pm Saturday, November 14 Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church 2931 Kingston Pike Knoxville, TN 37919 Hors d’oeuvres To […]
NASCO INSTITUTE 2009: In Our Back Yards
Defending the Environmental Commons, Ann Arbor November 6-8, 2009 Join the Highlander Center and the more than 400 co-op members, cooperative educators and representatives of democratic organizations from across the U.S. Canada, and beyond as we converge in Ann Arbor for NASCO’s (North American Students of Cooperation) Cooperative Education and Training Institute. Through workshops, discussions, […]
Outside Highlander Folk School Library
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Seeds of Fire Youth Leadership Camp, 2009
Seeds of Fire participants walking to Highlander’s orchard. “There is a space for all who come to Highlander” is part of an opening stanza of a new song, “A Place at Highlander,” written by Mr. Freddie Mosley, an adult ally from 2nd Chance, during the 2009 Seeds of Fire camp. Mr. Mosely drives 2 hours […]
STAY Project Summer Institute for Appalachian Youth Meets at Highlander
From June 26-29, 2009, 22 youth and young adults from Appalachia gathered in Highlander’s rocking chairs to begin coming up with a plan for how they can help to ensure that young people and adults would be able to STAY in the Appalachian, particularly the Central Appalachian region. The STAY Project (Staying Together Appalachian Youth) […]
Highlander Staff Facilitate Youth Workshop at National Credit Union Conference
Twenty three youth from community development credit unions from across the nation gathered at the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions’ 35th Annual Conference on Serving the Underserved, held June 11-13 in Phoenix, AZ. These young people came to Phoenix from Dallas, TX; Quitman County, MS; Shreveport, LA; Baton Rouge, LA; Rochester, NY; and […]
Connecting Struggles & Movement Building – Highlander in Toronto
The Labour Education Centre (LEC) in Toronto is passionate about how unions and communities should come together to respond to the current economic crisis and how it is affecting their communities and organizations. On June 8-10, Highlander and the LEC co-sponsored a conference in Toronto entitled “Connecting Struggles, Movement Building.” The organizers and facilitators for […]