Bob Montgomery, Herald-Journal Community activist Kathryn Harvey is the new chairwoman of the Spartanburg County Democratic Party. She was elected at the party's annual convention Saturday, attended by an estimated 60 Democrats at Spartanburg Community College's downtown campus theater. She succeeds Angela Geter, who is focusing her energy on her U.S. Senate campaign for the seat of [...]

SC nonprofit leaders gather in Spartanburg, tour neighborhoods to talk inequity issues Eva Wen Herald-Journal The panel speakers at Together SC Nonprofit Summit, 2022. Madeleine McGee has seen a great need in nonprofit work to address inequities since the beginning of the pandemic. As a leader to nonprofit, corporate and government partners across South Carolina, [...]

The Spartanburg County Public Library and Neue South were the recipients of a National PR Award and one of the highest communication honors from the American Library Association, the John Cotton Dana Award, for our census campaign and proven community impact. Spartanburg County was only one of five counties in SC to reach our 2010 count, a measure of success by [...]

Donations pour in from Giving Tuesday, but community leaders encourage more help through holidays   Dustin Wyatt Herald-Journal A recently published report by the College of Charleston sheds light on how many nonprofits across South Carolina are struggling financially in a year that’s been battered by COVID-19. In Spartanburg, nearly two-thirds (61 percent)  of the 47 [...]

Editor's Note: Kathryn Harvey is the founder of Neue South Collective, a Spartanburg-based marketing firm that supports nonprofits locally and across the state.  Tough times call for extraordinary measures. In my twenty years working with nonprofits, I haven’t seen anything quite like what I’ve seen in 2020. I’ve been knee deep with local organizations in the Spartanburg area [...]