💙 Stanly Avengers, Inc.
Building Stronger Communities. Empowering Futures.

Our Mission
To educate, equip, and uplift communities for generational sustainability.

Our Vision
To empower rural communities through social justice, education, economic opportunity, and initiatives that create lasting change.

Why We Do This
We exist for three things:

Conservation.
Preservation.
Celebration.

Everything we do flows through our G.E.M.S. Framework:

💎 Generational Wealth
🎓 Education & Trades
🧠 Mental Health
🔁 Second Chances

G.E.M.S. turns vision into structure — and structure into legacy.

🌱 What’s Happening Now
What began as a grassroots effort has grown into a trusted movement supported by schools, colleges, city leaders, businesses, public housing communities, grant partners, volunteers, and families across the county.

We’re building real relationships that create real opportunity — and we’re just getting started.

💎 What Your Membership Supports
Your involvement helps us:

✔ Host quarterly community cleanups
✔ Preserve the Kingville legacy and uplift Black history across Stanly County
✔ Expand youth STEM, Trades & Arts programming
✔ Strengthen economic mobility pathways
✔ Support leadership development & mental wellness
✔ Build second-chance and workforce opportunities

This isn’t just about events.

It’s about building systems that last.

🚀 Join Us
Whether you’re new or renewing, there is space for you here — to serve, lead, mentor, sponsor, or support.

We’re building access.
We’re building ownership.
We’re building future leaders.

History matters.
Community matters.
You matter.

Let’s build together.

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🌿 LANDSCAPE FOR LEGACY
Adopt-A-Street • Community Cleanups • Historic Preservation

Looking for a meaningful way to give back?

Join Stanly Avengers, Inc. as we restore and protect historic spaces across Stanly County — including the Old Kingville Schoolhouse Campus, a powerful symbol of Black education, resilience, and community pride.

We’re building a movement rooted in service, stewardship, and legacy.

🌟 Ways to Get Involved
As a Partner, Sponsor, or Volunteer, you can:

✔ Join community cleanup days
✔ Help beautify Adopt-A-Street or historic sites
✔ Support preservation efforts
✔ Serve youth, families, and shared history
✔ Show pride through hands-on impact

Every role matters — whether you give time, resources, or expertise.

🧹 What to Expect on Cleanup Days
🕘 9:00 AM – Check-In
Supplies, water, welcome, and overview.

🕤 9:15 – 11:00 AM – Cleanup & Landscaping
Work individually or in teams on assigned streets or historic areas.

🛠 Wrap-Up
Return supplies, reflect, and celebrate the impact made.

All tools and guidance are provided. Just bring comfortable clothes and a heart to serve.

Together, we’re not just cleaning up.

We’re preserving living history.

This form helps us connect you to volunteer opportunities, partnerships, sponsorships, and Adopt-A-Street initiatives with Stanly Avengers, Inc.

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🌆 ADOPT-A-STREET
Honoring Our Streets. Honoring Our Elders. Honoring Our Legacy.
Separate from the Old Schoolhouse Campus Cleanup — but equally powerful — our Adopt-A-Street Program is dedicated to honoring the families, elders, and community leaders who helped shape Kingville.

Each street below has been adopted in memory or recognition of someone whose legacy matters. Volunteers help maintain these streets during quarterly cleanup days throughout the year.

Service becomes tribute.
Maintenance becomes memory.
Cleanup becomes community pride.

📍 Adopted Streets & Honorees
Wall St. – Kingville Legacy Site
Summit Ave. – Bonnie Brooks Knight, Otis & Mae Jewel Brooks
Davis St. – White Front
Arey Ave. – Annette Allen
Lincoln St. – Dink Harris
T.E. White Sr. Dr. – Sugar Hill Neighborhood
Armfield Ave. – Marcelean & Sadie Lee
Richardson St. – Mama Gracie Sellers
Ruby St. – Young World The Label & Mike Forte Jr.
Gibson St. – Alice Davis & The Crump Family
Thomas St. – Thelma & Slay Craig Jr.
Center St. – Agnes Freeman
Sides St. – Lula Mae & Benjamin Liles
Bailey St. – Andrew & Mary Wilson
Pou St. – YaTona Ingram
Lennox Ave. – Lillian Ellis
Waddell Dr. – Robert “Bruh Rob” Craig
Lundix St. – Charles E. Davis, Aunt Mattie & Daddy Tom
MLK Jr. Dr. – Albemarle Middle School
Spaulding St. – TEAM NC
Washington Ln. – TEAM NC
Leonard Ave. – Albemarle Leadership Team
Alfred St. – Daisy Ponds
4th St. – Bernice Moses & Mae Lilly
Beale St. – Betty Daniels, Tristan, Bobby & The Crump Family
S. Elizabeth Ave. – Doris McRae
Glendale Ave. – Dr. & Ernistine Parker
N. Elizabeth Ave. – LaDonna Chambers & Alice Martin
Coggins Ave. – The Swaringen/Harris Family
Pearl St. – The McLendon Family

🌟 Whether you’re joining the Schoolhouse Cleanup or serving on an adopted street, your impact honors those who came before us.

🧹 Select the campaign you’re volunteering for in the form and help us keep Kingville and the greater community beautiful.

📚 PRESERVATION: Historical Markers & Research Initiative
The Kingville Project is expanding its preservation work through our Historical Markers & Planning Initiative — a structured effort to document, protect, and prepare historic sites for long-term recognition and preservation.

With recent preservation funding secured and additional planning grants in progress, we are building a team to help strengthen documentation, research, and professional assessments aligned with national preservation standards.

This is not just storytelling.

This is preservation planning.

🏛 How You Can Get Involved
We are seeking volunteers and professionals in the following areas:

Community & Research Volunteers
• Conduct and record oral history interviews
• Assist with archival and document research
• Help gather and digitize historic photographs
• Draft narratives for historical markers
• Support community outreach and family engagement

Technical & Professional Support (Especially Needed)
• Preservation architects
• Landscape architects
• Surveyors
• Contractors with historic structure experience
• Engineers
• Preservation planners
• Real estate feasibility consultants
• Grant writers & fundraising advisors

Your expertise can help us move from documentation to structured planning aligned with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.

🌟 Why This Matters
Through small but strategic preservation grants — including our recent funding support — we are:

• Strengthening technical documentation
• Building feasibility assessments
• Preparing for long-term site planning
• Expanding public education & awareness
• Laying groundwork for larger planning investments

Preservation requires both community voice and professional guidance.

We need both.

📌 What This Supports
This initiative helps:

• Develop historic structure documentation
• Prepare for future landmark recognition
• Strengthen planning applications
• Increase grant competitiveness
• Build long-term sustainability for the Kingville campus

A small grant at the right time can be catalytic.

And we are in that catalytic phase.

🤝 Who Should Join?
• History lovers
• Students seeking preservation experience
• Community storytellers
• Skilled trades professionals
• Architects & planners
• Grant-minded collaborators
• Anyone committed to protecting legacy through action

Together, we are not just researching the past.

We are preparing it for the future.

🌟 STANLY AVENGERS YOUTH STEM, TRADES & ARTS INITIATIVE 
Create the Future.
This is more than a workshop.

It’s a launchpad for imagination, skill-building, and leadership.

Through hands-on exposure to STEM, skilled trades, and creative arts, we help middle and high school students explore real-world pathways that connect education with opportunity.

🚀 What Students Experience
Youth gain hands-on exposure to:

• STEM exploration (technology, digital media, innovation)
• Skilled trades (HVAC, heavy equipment, machining, carpentry & more)
• Entrepreneurship & branding
• Creative arts (spoken word, theater, media production)
• Team challenges & showcases
• Confidence and leadership development

We connect career pathways with cultural pride and community legacy.

🎯 One Mission. Two Pathways.
For Students:
Interactive workshops, competitions, and exposure to career and trade opportunities.

For Community & Sponsors:
Fuel student access, mentor youth, volunteer at events, and invest in the next generation of leaders.

This initiative is community-powered.

🛠 Why This Matters
Part of The Kingville Project, this initiative helps:

• Bridge education with legacy
• Expand exposure to non-traditional and high-demand careers
• Strengthen rural workforce pipelines
• Build confidence, creativity, and ownership
• Honor history through innovation and action

This is G.E.M.S. in motion:
Generational Wealth.
Education & Trades.
Mental Health.
Second Chances.

💡 Get Involved
✔ Register a student
✔ Volunteer at a session
✔ Sponsor a workshop
✔ Mentor a youth team
✔ Support supplies or scholarships

Whether you're a student ready to build your future —
or a community member ready to build opportunity —
this movement is for you.

More sessions launch throughout the year.

Stay connected.
Stay involved.
Help us create the future.

📚 COMMUNITY IMPACT: Historic Preservation & Economic Mobility Through FGEMS
Presented by Stanly Avengers, Inc.

We're not just remembering history—we’re building futures.
Join us for dynamic events, youth-led showcases, and community-driven workshops rooted in our FGEMS pillars:

💰 Financial Literacy
Empowering families and youth with tools for saving, budgeting, investing, and smart spending habits.

🏛️ Generational Wealth
Real conversations and strategies for building and protecting Black wealth—from land ownership to legacy planning.

🎨 Education in STEM, Trades & Arts
Explore hands-on learning in Science, Technology, Trades, Entrepreneurship, Media, and the Arts—including our Summer 2025 Youth STEM, Trade & Arts Series, competition showcases, and creative project-building sessions.

💚 Mental & Health Awareness
Centering community wellness through mental health education, healing spaces, and access to supportive resources.

🔁 Second Chance Employment
Breaking barriers through job readiness, vocational training, and workforce re-entry support—especially for returning citizens and system-impacted individuals.

✨ Whether you’re attending a workshop, supporting a student, or preserving history—you are part of the movement.
Let’s build a stronger, healthier, and more empowered Kingville—together.

🚀 Invest Beyond Attendance: Become a Stanly Avenger
This section is for those who want to support the mission beyond showing up.

Stanly Avengers, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to:

• Youth empowerment
• Generational wealth development
• Cultural & historic preservation
• Workforce and trade pathways
• Mental health and leadership growth

When you give, you’re not just supporting an event —
you’re investing in students, families, and the long-term future of our community.

💙 Choose Your Impact Level
🌟 Angel Supporter — $25+
For those who believe in the mission and want to stay connected.

Supports:
• Youth materials & workshop supplies
• Community programming
• Preservation efforts

→ You support. Students gain access.

💪 Advocate Member — $50
For active members who want deeper involvement and a voice in the movement.

Includes:
• Planning meeting access
• Input on initiatives and events
• Volunteer priority opportunities
• Core member updates

This tier represents leadership-level engagement — not just participation.

→ You serve. You help shape direction.

💼 Alliance Community Partner — $125
For businesses and organizations seeking partnership and visibility.

Includes:
• Vendor access when applicable
• Event program recognition
• Logo placement on select promotional materials
• Community membership recognition

→ Visibility with purpose.

🎓 Alliance Student Sponsor — $125
Sponsor one student for upcoming STEM, Trades, Arts, or Leadership programming.

→ Direct impact. Real opportunity.

🤝 Alliance Community + Student Sponsor — $250
Includes full sponsor recognition plus sponsorship of one student.

→ Invest in both infrastructure and individual growth.

✨ Flexible Support
Choose a custom amount aligned with your capacity and commitment.

Every contribution matters.

🗓 Contributions received directly support current programming and preservation efforts.
Support received after event deadlines sustains future initiatives.

Participation is never required — but always appreciated.

💎 Why It Matters
Your support fuels:

• Youth STEM, Trades & Arts programming
• Economic mobility workshops
• Preservation planning & historic documentation
• Community cleanups & neighborhood pride
• Leadership development pathways

This is G.E.M.S. in motion:

Generational Wealth.
Education & Trades.
Mental Health.
Second Chances.

Board Member Responsibilities:

Time Commitment: Approximately 2-4 hours per month, including board meetings and organizational activities.

Attendance: Regular participation in monthly board meetings and planning sessions.

Support: Assist in organizing events, fundraising efforts, and community outreach programs.

NO PAYMENT REQUIRED however any & all CONTRIBUTIONS to Stanly Avengers, Incorporated are tax-deductible & will help further our cause to Support Uplift Promote Educate & Repeat positive change in your communities.

Stanly Avenger Incorporated is a non-profit public benefit 501(c)(3) corporation and is operated exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code. Stanly Avenger Incorporated is not organized and shall not be operated for any person's private gain. The Corporation's property is irrevocably dedicated to its educational and charitable purposes, and no part of the receipts or net earnings of the Corporation shall be used for any activities other than its mission. Stanly Avenger Incorporated will always retain control over the contributed funds and will provide the relative information regarding its activities on its website: www.stanlyavengers.org   EIN# 88-3360352

LIABILITY CLAUSE:

I hereby expressly assume the risk of injury or harm to me from these activities and Release Nonprofit from all liability for injury, illness, death, or property damage resulting from the services I provide as a volunteer or occurring while I am participating in events.

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