LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE NON-PROFITS!
ThreeSheets:Design firmly believes in supporting our community - which is why we always have a special place in our hearts (and our time management) for those who are hard working to help others 24/7. Below are a few examples of amazing organizations that we've done work for.
If your non-profit could use a little T.L.C., email us HERE.
GreenBuilt Alliance
(formerly WNC Green Building Council) Green Built Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing sustainability in the built environment through community education, measurable standards and regional action in Western North Carolina and beyond since 2001. We’re connected to each other through the places we call home, but climate change is affecting the areas we live and love. It takes all of us to build the future we want, and our nonprofit aims to model how a community can work together to create sustainable solutions. Together, we can make a healthy, hopeful, clean energy future a reality.
...visit their website HERE
Haywood Waterways Association
Haywood Waterways Association maintains and improves surface water quality in the Pigeon River Watershed of Haywood County, North Carolina. We accomplish this through two objectives directed at reducing nonpoint source pollution: educating and focusing attention on the watershed as a natural, economic and recreational resource to be conserved and enhanced for this and future generations; and working with public agencies, conservation interests, businesses, community groups, and public and private land owners to implement water quality improvement strategies. We recognize the importance of partnerships between science, economy, government and the community to protect and improve water quality. We are not a regulatory agency. Our focus is on wise use of our natural resources by serving as a non-governmental catalyst for beneficial change. ...visit their website HERE
Ministry of Hope
ACTIVE BOARD CHAIR, 2020 & 2021
The Ministry of Hope is a community-funded chaplaincy program which raises funds to employ on-site chaplains at Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women (SCCW) in Swannanoa, NC. Our chaplains conduct religious services in the center's chapel and provide pastoral care and spiritual guidance to the inmates. Their guidance and leadership are crucial to helping these women, many of whom struggle with addiction, abuse, and grief issues. The women at SCCW are within five years of release or parole. Our chaplains offer them a sense of hope and real-world self-care tools to manage parenting, relationships, and employment with discernment and spiritual maturity. ...visit their website HERE
Historic Preservation Commission,
Town of Black Mountain NC
ACTIVE COMMISSION MEMBER
The Planning Board is an advisory board established by the Black Mountain Town Council to provide insight on matters related to land use and community development. Members review and make recommendations to the Town Council to improve land use related ordinances. The Planning Board also provides additional planning recommendations to the Town Council and the Board of Adjustment as appropriate, and pursue other studies or planning initiatives as directed by the Town Council. ...visit their website HERE
Historic Preservation Commission,
Town of Black Mountain NC
PAST COMMISSION MEMBER
The Historic Preservation Commission was established in 2001 to preserve and raise awareness of structures that have local, state, or federal historical significance. Their work includes recommending areas to be designated as “historic districts,” or individual structures, buildings, sites, areas or objects to be designated as “landmarks.” The HPC also reviews proposals for alterations, demolition or new construction within the regulatory Downtown Historic District and educates our community on historic resources within Black Mountain. ...visit their website HERE
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MountainTrue
For 30 years, MountainTrue has been a trusted community partner, marshaling grassroots support to keep our forests healthy, our air and water clean, and our communities vibrant. Utilizing a combination of policy advocacy, scientific research and community collaboration, MountainTrue and its chapters throughout Western North Carolina unleash the power of citizens' voices to protect the natural heritage of our region so that people and the environment can thrive. ...visit their website HERE
Swannanoa Valley Transitional Housing
Helping Women Start A New Life. SVTHC is an organization that assists inmates of the Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women (SCCW) develop transitional goals and further assist in meeting those goals after the inmate is released. We work with any inmate planning to be released to WNC who sincerely wants to make a change in herself and the life style which resulted in her incarceration. ...visit their website HERE
American Red Cross - Disaster Services
Lauronda currently works as a DAT member for the Asheville Chapter of the Red Cross's emergency response team. Here are some facts that most don't know about the Red Cross - the Red Cross Depends on Volunteers!
• Volunteers constitute about 95 percent of the American Red Cross workforce. Volunteers make it possible to provide services such as...
• Responding to nearly 70,000 disasters every year, most of them home and apartment fires.
• Teaching millions of people first aid, CPR, swimming and other lifesaving skills.
• Helping the American Red Cross collect approximately 6.3 million units of blood from roughly 3.7 million volunteer donors.
• Delivering urgent family messages to members of the military around the clock and around the globe.
• As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Network, reconnecting hundreds of families separated by war and disaster around the world.
...visit their website HERE
New Beginnings German Shorthair Rescue
New Beginnings German Shorthaired Pointer Rescue, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is an all volunteer group whose purpose is to find permanent loving families for dogs that, through no fault of their own, find themselves without homes. Many of us have had countless years of loving and caring for our own Shorthairs. ...visit their website HERE
Woodland Baptist Church
Everyone is invited to worship with us at Woodland Baptist Church. We hope you find a friendly and warm atmosphere! Worship Services each Sunday, 10:30am and 6:30pm. Our music is a blend of traditional with contemporary specials and praise music which brings glory to God. Woodland Baptist also believes in mission work at home and at large. ...visit their website HERE