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Theresa (Miss Tee) Williams - 2023 President's Volunteer Service Award

1/3/2024

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Theresa (Miss Tee) Williams

Theresa (Miss Tee) Williams is a seasoned grant writer and longtime children’s advocate who has helped to secure a variety of funding sources for initiatives in all of the communities that she has lived in since 1993.

Miss Tee is a member of American Grant Writers Association (AGWA); Blacks in Nonprofits; Urban Awareness USA; and the Professional Writer’s Alliance, Williams is a Certified Professional Secretary (CPS) and has served as an administrative and nonprofit consultant for numerous organizations including ENC Nonprofit Partners, Inc; Young Women of  Promise, Inc.;  Kinston Promise Neighborhood; Charlotte
Mecklenburg School System; Duke Power Company; Kids Voting of Cabarrus and Mecklenburg County and 100 Black Men of Greater Charlotte.
 
Since 1993, she has organized numerous youth development; education and service learning opportunities for youth in Lenoir, Pitt, Greene, Duplin, Beaufort, Mecklenburg, Rowan and Cabarrus counties in North Carolina. She has expertise in Youth Program Development. Successful and award winning programs have included ENC Voices of Youth, Young Women of Promise, CMS Math and Science Camp-ins, Class Project 2000 and 100 Black Men of Greater Charlotte Movement of
Youth Program.
 
Most recently she wrote successful grants to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction 21st CCLC Program; Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium; Youth Service America; the NC MLK Commission; and Dollar General Literacy Foundation; Walmart; Ross Stores for operational support of nonprofit initiatives programs in eastern North Carolina.
 
She has successfully written grant proposals that have benefitted a number of Lenoir County agencies including Young Women of Promise (TANF afterschool grant ($87,000);  NASA Summer of Innovation ($5,000); Ben and Jerry Foundation ($1,000); America's Promise ($3,000); Youth Service America ( over $15,000); Lenoir-Greene County Partnership for Children (NC Dropout Prevention grant ($275,000); North Carolina Human Relations Martin Luther King Commission ($7,500) ; Kinston Promise Neighborhood – 21st Century Learning Centers ($400,000); Greater Kinston Community Development Corporation – 21st Century Learning Centers ($400,000) ; and Kinston Charter Academy – NC DPI Learn and Serve America Grant – ($15,000).
 
Her experience in grant writing has resulted in additional grant awards including Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; NC Department of Health and Human Services; Learn and Serve America, America’s Promise Alliance; Points of Light Foundation, Compassion Capital Fund; Southern Partners Fund; Fund for Southern Communities; Philip Morris USA, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Dollar General; Open Society Institute; Bridge Builders Foundation, Bank of America Foundation, Boston Foundation, Tides Foundation, Peace Development Fund; North Carolina Civic Education Consortium; National Alliance of Faith and Justice, Youth Service America, Ben and Jerry Foundation; Whole Kids Foundation; POST Middle School Matters and more.
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Young Women of Promise, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded on September 4, 2001 in the state of North Carolina.
Theresa (Miss Tee) Williams, President/Founder
760 W Fire Tower Road, Suite 107 #528, Winterville, NC 28590
​Phone:  252/367-8292
Email:  [email protected]