Each year, the Volunteer Center of Greensboro hosts a wonderful event called The Human Race- and fortunate not for profits, like the IRC, get to participate!
The Human Race is a fundraising event that brings local non-profits together in a day of celebration. Its a fun way to spend a Saturday morning, with free food, entertainment, music and friends!
Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine’s medical office located at the Interactive Resource Center in Greensboro opened on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. The two room suite is staffed by Linda Bernhardt, Nurse Practitioner and Tamira Pride, Certified Medical Assistant. The offices will be open Tuesdays and Fridays from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The medical services provided at TAPM—IRC are for homeless individuals who are uninsured (potential patients must meet eligibility criteria before services can be rendered).
Grant funding for this project was awarded to Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine, Inc. from the Cone Health Foundation.
This meaningful project was made possible through the hard work and collaboration with the staff of the Interactive Resource Center and the Cone Health Congregational Nurse Program. This partnership will enhance health care access for those in Greensboro who are experiencing homelessness.
Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine, Inc. includes practice locations in Greensboro and High Point, North Carolina, providing care to 37,000 children and 15,000 adults with more than 90,000 visits annually at the organization’s medical offices. The majority of the children and adults served by Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine Inc. have annual incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level.
The IRC warmly welcomes TAPM’s new offices and we are ready to get to work!
Elliot Hopkins is 8 years old (8 and a half) and is the philanthropist behind Elliot’s Ninja Art. If wisdom could be defined as the combination of intelligence and compassion, then Elliot is uniquely wise beyond his years. Struck by the epidemic of homelessness, and moved by the people he saw, Elliot now creates and selling drawings of ninja’s to benefit Greensboro’s homeless.
Elliot dropped by the IRC on Monday to drop off another donation- this time of $250.00. He wanted to be sure that his gift would be matched by the generous Strasser Family Matching Gift Drive, happening until the end of the month. It most certainly will!
The IRC and our guests are fortunate to have such creative and dedicated support, from the Strasser Family to young Elliot Hopkins… to you, reading this page.
On January 9, 2009 the Interactive Resource Center opened its doors in a set of converted Sunday school rooms at Bessemer United Methodist Church. Together we rigged up a shower stall, put in washer/dryer connections, we scrubbed and we painted.
In 2008 Councilwoman Dianne Bellamy-Small had created a task force to plan a day center for people experiencing homelessness. As the economy deteriorated and the weather grew cold, we needed to do something immediately, even if only on a temporary basis, to help people through that hard winter. That something was the IRC.
The plan was for the IRC to only be open during those hard winter months, but in March of 2009 something amazing happened: the Richard Strasser family, longtime Greensboro philanthropists, gave the IRC a 22,000 square foot building (the former headquarters of their business Southern Plate & Window Glass) on the eastern edge of downtown. Given through the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, the building had housed the company’s offices and warehouse. “This is the perfect fit,” said Aaron Strasser.
Now, four years after that visionary gift, the Strasser family has made another offer: a community challenge to contribute to the IRC’s operating fund. All gifts made to the IRC during the months of February and March will be matched by the Strassers dollar for dollar up to $15,000.
The IRC is humbled by the giving of the Strassers and the Greensboro community. Our mission is supported through the many volunteers, partnerships, and the generosity of our neighbors.
Since we opened in 2009 we have helped over 6,000 people get back on their feet. Please join the Strassers and the IRC in continuing to offer help and hope to those who need it.
Here is a video from when we were preparing to move into our new building… how far we have come!
What better way for the Interactive Resource Center to spend its forth birthday than celebrating it with our extensive community of friends, surrounded by the arts and crafts of our Artifacts artists.
Artifacts is a cooperative of artists experiencing homelessness. Artifacts creates opportunities for the talented guest artists of the IRC to show and sell their art. Artifacts includes talented fine art and craft artists, showcasing pen and ink, woodworking, pencil, paint, fiber, metal, and other mediums.
The IRC is celebrating four years of community, of partnerships, of support, of giving,and of what can best be summed up as an experience of love this friday with our heART and Soul event. We see it as no coincidence that our anniversary is so close to Valentine’s Day. Come celebrate with us!
Valentine cards and other art by IRC guest artists will be on sale at heART and soul from 6-8!
Come help the IRC celebrate its fourth anniversary and its favorite holiday (Valentine’s Day, naturally!) with an evening of heartfelt arts and crafts from IRC artists Shannon Stewart, Don Ames, Rhonda Hyler, Rickey Edwards, Juanita Moravian-James, Fred Gant and more. Come enjoy an evening with with us and find a card or gift for all the people you love.
HeART and Soul, Friday, February 8, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
407 E. Washington Street
Greensboro, NC
The Greensboro Interactive Resource Center assists people who are homeless, recently homeless or facing homelessness reconnect with their lives and the community at large.
