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  2. Center for Community Self-Help - Wikipedia

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    Self-Help is a national community development financial institution headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. Between the years of 1980-2017, Self-Help reportedly provided over $7 billion in financing to 146,000 families, individuals and businesses. It aims to drive economic development and strengthen communities by providing financial services ...

  3. Piggly Wiggly - Wikipedia

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    Piggly Wiggly is an American supermarket chain operating in the American Southern and Midwestern regions run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers. Its first outlet opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee, and is notable as the first true self-service grocery store, and the originator of various familiar supermarket features such as checkout stands, individual item price ...

  4. Self Regional Healthcare - Wikipedia

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    Self Regional Healthcare. / 34.17572; -82.15646. Self Regional Healthcare, previously Self Memorial Hospital, [1] is a 358-bed short-term acute care hospital [2] founded on November 1, 1951 in Greenwood, South Carolina. [3] The hospital was founded by the Self Family Foundation, an organization created James Cuthbert Self, founder of the local ...

  5. List of hospitals in South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Formerly Novant Health Gaffney Medical Center and later Mary Black Health System - Gaffney [1] Coastal Carolina Hospital. Hardeeville. Jasper. 41. —. Tenet. Colleton Medical Center. Walterboro.

  6. Greensboro sit-ins - Wikipedia

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    While not the first sit-in of the civil rights movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the best-known sit-ins of the civil rights movement. They are considered a catalyst to the subsequent sit-in movement, in which 70,000 people participated. [3] [4] This sit-in was a contributing factor in the formation of the ...

  7. CreateSpace - Wikipedia

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    On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon. [3] [4] The company was founded in 2000 in South Carolina as BookSurge and was acquired by Amazon in 2005. [5] CreateSpace published books containing any content at all, other than just placeholder text. [6] It neither edited nor verified.

  8. Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Teen Impact/Volunteerism and Community Service. Teen Impact is a tribal-based community service club for teenage members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. The Volunteer Program of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina assists and mentors the teens who donate service hours to a community cause of their choice. Department of Energy

  9. Coastal Carolina University - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College, and later joining the University of South Carolina System as USC Coastal Carolina, it became an independent university in 1993. The university is a national sea-grant institution and owns part of Waties Island , an Atlantic barrier island that serves as a natural laboratory for CCU's ...