The 18th Annual Healthy Learners Champions for Children Golf Tournament in Memory of George Younginer tees off October 25 at the Fort Jackson Golf Club in Columbia, South Carolina. The tournament will include a day of golf, food, entertainment, contests and prizes. The much-needed funds will help to support the mission of Healthy Learners. [More]

Adults from Greenwood, South Carolina, displayed their spelling skills at the third annual Greenwood Friends of Healthy Learners Spelling Bee September 26. The event raised more than $30,000 for the Healthy Learners Greenwood program. [More]

Healthy Learners is celebrating 25 years of being devoted to removing children’s health barriers to learning with love and compassion. Prior to 1992, too many children who were in need and without resources in South Carolina were falling through the cracks of the health care system and were going without needed medical services. [More]

The Central Carolina Community Foundation is presenting its fourth regional day of giving in the Midlands of South Carolina today, Tuesday, May 2, with its 24-hour giving challenge, Midlands Gives—and Healthy Learners, a ministry of the Sisters of Charity Health System, is participating. [More]

The annual Nashville Songwriters in the Round event benefiting Healthy Learners Georgetown is April 28. At this popular fundraising event, which is designed in the spirit of Nashville and the famous Bluebird Cafe, attendees can hear songwriters share the songs they’ve written for many of country’s music stars and the stories behind them. [More]

Cleveland and Northeast Ohio medical and community leaders recently gathered at the Global Center for Health Innovation to welcome Thomas J. Strauss as president & CEO of the Sisters of Charity Health System. More than 300 community and industry leaders gathered for the event, which featured a keynote from Tom, as well as remarks from Sister Judith Ann Karam CSA, congregational leader of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine; Robert Spangler M.D., board chair of the Sisters of Charity Health System; and Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish. [More]

Healthy Learners recently announced a new slate of officers to its board of trustees for the next two years. The new officers are: Chairman Matthew Roberts of Nexsen Pruet, LLC; Vice Chairman Deborah D. Locklair of McLeod Health; Secretary Cleo F. Richardson of the Pee Dee Education Center; and Treasurer Rich Williams of Unum US. [More]

Healthy Learners has named Dawn Staley, University of South Carolina head women’s basketball coach, as the 2016 Healthy Learners Champion for Children award recipient. [More]

Healthy Learners is devoted to removing children's health barriers to learning with love and compassion, which can be seen in the number of children it serves and the personal stories told by those children and families. Read more in the latest issue of the "Healthy Insights from Healthy Learners" newsletter. [More]

Adults from Greenwood, South Carolina, recently displayed their spelling skills at the second annual Greenwood Friends of Healthy Learners Spelling Bee. The event raised more than $25,000 for the Healthy Learners Greenwood program. [More]