North Carolina
Website launched to prioritize what donation centers actually need in western North Carolina
Helping hands stretched across the country in the wake of Helene, holding on to western North Carolina. People stepped up in the immediate aftermath, giving whatever they could. But sometimes, if there are too many voices, you can’t hear what the people in need actually need in the moment.
The organized chaos of people helping forged the friendship of two people: Heather Oberg and Nicole Schoychid. They both had the same idea.
“I had contacts up there and Nicole said she saw me sitting there trying to do something,” Schoychid said.
Heather’s background in project management mixed with Nicole’s boots-on-the-ground communication spawned a website called Supporting WNC. It’s a dashboard that allows donation centers to list what they need and don’t need in real-time.
For more information, go to supportingwnc.com.