On Saturday, a Charlotte icon returned to the city’s skyline and marked the beginning of Charlotte’s Historic Preservation Month. The JFG Special Coffee shines brightly again, now atop the VBGB Beer Hall & Garden at the North Carolina Music Factory. The NC Music Factory was a natural fit for the 40-year-old sign because the area […]
Continue ReadingAlive After Five
April 07, 2011
Tonight marks the kick off of Charlotte’s biggest summer happy hour – Alive After Five. This weekly celebration allows corporate America to roll out from their cubicles, crawl down their concrete towers, and indulge in post-office beverages, laughs and feel good music. Not particularly kid-friendly, unless you want ‘you-have-a-baby-in-a-bar’ stares, this outdoor festivity has increased […]
Continue ReadingGiving Back
April 01, 2011
Each year Addison Whitney participates in GRACE (Giving Relief and Care to our Elderly), a charitable initiative funded entirely by donations from employees. Donations help support senior citizens in our local community. We recently visited Sardis Oaks Nursing Home to see the newly updated beauty salon our donation helped fund. The salon was given a […]
Continue ReadingBe a Light to the Village
December 30, 2010
For our December Helping Hands event, AW chose to sponsor the Christmas Village Toy Store at the request of one of our visual designers. It is a suggestion that many AW employees embraced, as the excitement of children at Christmas far outweighs our own as adults.The inspiration came in 2006 for The Christmas Village Toy […]
Continue ReadingA Fresh Start
November 24, 2010
Sarah is a Charlotte-area junior who has been a Girl Scout for ten years.She is now in the final stage of earning her Gold Award.Much like the Eagle Award is to the Boy Scouts of America, the Gold Award is the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA. Only about 5% of eligible […]
Continue ReadingPaint AW Pink
November 08, 2010
Part of Addison Whitney culture includes active support of philanthropic endeavors. Breast cancer is an illness that has affected all of us in some way, and we are part of a much larger initiative dedicated to finding a cure.In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we here at AW made donations to BCC Rally and […]
Continue Reading24 Hours of Booty
August 03, 2010
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. This weekend, more than 1,200 cyclists converged on Charlotte for 24 Hours of Booty. For 24 hours, cyclists rode a nearly three mile loop around the Myers Park neighborhood in a sign of unity against all types of cancer. This annual event raises money for cancer research and survivorship. This year, participants raised more […]
Continue ReadingThe Rebranding of the Y
July 22, 2010
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Any given day, you’re sure to find an Addison Whitney employee at the Y running on a tredmill or perfecting Zumba moves. As a member of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte, I received an email last week from the President & CEO and Metropolitan Board Chair that blew my mind – in a good […]
Continue ReadingAddison Whitney Helping Hands Event: Million Meal Mission
July 09, 2010
Addison Whitney recently attended a mobile food packing event hosted by Harrison United Methodist Church in Ballantyne for starving children in Haiti, the Philippines and more than 60 countries around the world. In partnership with Samaritans International and the “Feed My Starving Children” organization, the “Million Meal Mission” food packing event supports children in impoverished […]
Continue ReadingHospital Branding
August 28, 2009
Have you ever asked yourself how hospitals in your city seem to be everywhere these days? Here in Charlotte some have commented on how Carolinas Medical Center went from one hospital in the center of the city to a network of centers all across town. There is even a CMC branded facility in a newly […]
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