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Hilliside Family of Agencies - June 2010
NEW YORK — Hillside Enhances Statewide Adoption Services through Partnership with Adoption Chronicles
NORTH CAROLINA — Keen Innovations CEO, Dustin Keene, has been named one of the 2010 Triad Top 50 Entrepreneurs -
Award Honors Successful, Innovative and Philanthropic Entrepreneurs
NORTH CAROLINA — Keen Innovations partners with Kids Central, Inc. of Ocala, Florida.
NORTH CAROLINA — Adoption Chronicles - Innovative Change for recruitment efforts.
Videos give kids a voice in adoption
GREENSBORO — In two recent North Carolina adoptions, DVDs filmed by a local company clinched the deal.
A Raleigh-area woman adopted three teenage boys after viewing their “adoption chronicles,” created by Greensboro-based Keen Innovations, said Cindy Knul, director of recruitment outreach for the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina.
Triad Philanthropy: Videos let foster children convey their own stories
GREENSBORO — Since it was founded in 1902, Children’s Home Society of North Carolina has placed more than 14,000 children for adoption.
The Greensboro-based nonprofit, which serves more than 6,500 families and children a year with adoption and foster-care services, has added a new tool to help it promote adoption. The agency has teamed up with Keen Innovations in Greensboro to produce videos in which kids in foster care and families wanting to adopt them can tell their own stories.
On a recent summer morning in Keen Innovations' second-floor video production offices on South Elm Street, two young customers bound up the steps and into the waiting room.
Emma and Ellie are sisters, ages 5 and 2, and they've come to film their first Schoolkid Chronicles, a video documentary product that stars each of them talking about family, friends and interests. The girls will come back each year and add new interviews, which are collected on DVD.
Show and Tell: 160 exhibitors, 1,000 people attend chamber's annual Business Expo
Keen Innovations LLC of Greensboro went to the Greater Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce 2008 Business Expo yesterday to get the word out to local businesses about what it does best.
This was the company's first time exhibiting at the annual expo, which drew more than 1,000 people and 160 exhibitors to the Benton Convention Center in downtown Winston-Salem.
Each year, November is recognized as National Adoption Awareness Month. While all adoption-related issues are important, the particular focus of this month is the adoption of children living in foster care. In North Carolina, over 3,000 children are awaiting adoption and another 10,000 children are living in foster care. Many of them have spent most of their lives in this “temporary” situation, and have moved within the child welfare system several times.