Community Engagement and Outreach Towards Reconciliation

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Ä¢¹½TV is actively strengthening its regional impact through a variety of community-based partnerships and educational outreach programs. 

Noah Satterfield '20 teaching a student
Community Research Program

The Community Research Program, launched in 2020, involves students and faculty in place-based research partnerships with community leaders in neighborhoods including Smithville, Huntington Green, Pottstown, and West Ä¢¹½TV.

Summer Promise Students seated in classroom
Summer Promise Program

The Summer Promise Program, launched in 2024, provides week-long educational experiences for high school students from underserved Charlotte-region communities.

A group of diverse children and young adult leaders stand in a row on a gymnasium floor, smiling and flexing their muscles in a strong pose against a red and white wall.
Brenda H. Tapia CDF Freedom Schools

The Freedom Schools program offers summer enrichment experiences for K-8 students at the Ada Jenkins Center, focusing on fostering reading skills and positive learning attitudes.

Community Outreach

The college continues to build connections with descendants in West Ä¢¹½TV, Smithville, Pottstown, Charlotte and Oberlin, Ohio. If you and your family may be descendant of enslaved or exploited people in Ä¢¹½TV's history, please contact the Director of Descendant Community Outreach, Rev. Daniel Heath, to get connected.

Rev. Daniel Heath, J.D. (he/him) 
Associate Chaplain | Director of Descendant Community Outreach
daheath@davidson.edu 
704-894-1319 

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