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2021 Heart of Charlotte Award Winners
Sep. 20, 2022
In its inaugural year, the Heart of Charlotte Awards offers grants and awards to individuals and community organizations to support collaborations, partnerships, and leadership. Honorees are celebrated for their exceptional commitment to bettering the Charlotte metro community by strengthening neighborhood connections, investing in educational achievement, creating jobs and supporting business development, and fostering social, racial, and health equity.
Frontline Worker of the Year: Veronica Rankin
Director of Nursing, Clinical Nurse Leader Program Administrator, Magnet Program Director
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center
Educational Leader of the Year: Mary Quinn
Director of Financial Education
Common Wealth Charlotte
Community Leader of the Year: Jarris “JB” Bell
Executive Director
Christ Centered Community Counseling
Community Engagement Award: Northeastern University Student Nurses Association
Community Partner of the Year: Community Culinary School of Charlotte
2021 Heart of Charlotte Award Honorees
Karen Calder, Executive Director, Classroom Central
Donna Dunlap, Chief Executive Officer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas
Raukell Robinson, Family & Community Engagement Specialist, Central 1 Learning Community, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools
Arthritis Patient Services, dba Arthritis Services
EmpowHERment, Inc.
Families Forward Charlotte
2021 Grant Recipients
EMPOWHERMENT, INC.
Leadership Program
INNOVATE CHARLOTTE
CO.STARTERS Program
PROMISING PAGES
Booktoberfest Community Book Drive Sponsorship
2021 Presenting Partner
Tryon Medical Partners is a medical practice dedicated to maintaining trusted patient-doctor relationships, providing excellent and innovative care, and giving patients the choices in healthcare that they deserve. The physicians who comprise Tryon Medical Partners practice internal and family medicine, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, rheumatology and sleep medicine. Tryon Medical Partners has nine locations to serve the greater Charlotte area. For more information on Tryon Medical Partners, and to register as a patient, visit tryonmed.com.