Watch this video featuring the New Opportunity School for Women, Berea, Kentucky, and Founder Jane Stephenson on Oprah. There are currenlty three New Opportunity School for Women program locations. Each of which provides three-week residential programs free to each participant and welcomes applications from Appalachian women living in all regions of Central Appalachia, particularly Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. The New Opportunity School for Women Foundation needs your support to sustain and grow the NOSW family of programs.
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NOSW, Berea, Kentucky
[email protected]; (859) 985-7200 NOSW Berea is the "mothership" of the NOSW campuses. Founded in 1987 by Jane Baucum Stephenson, the school has graduated more than 700 women from its twice-yearly, three-week sessions that focus on personal empowerment and career development. For more information on the NOSW Berea sessions, contact: Lori Sliwa, Director 204 Chestnut Street Berea, KY 40403 |
NOSW, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, North Carolina
[email protected]; (828) 898-8905 In 2015 NOSW Lees-McRae celebrated its tenth anniversary. NOSW founder Jane Stephenson is also an alumna of Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, and in 2005 she sought to initiate the NOSW program for promising Appalachian women in that area . For more information on the NOSW at Lees-McRae College session, contact: Jennie Harpold, Director P.O. Box 128 Banner Elk, NC 28604 |
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NOSW, Bluefield College, Bluefield, Virginia
[email protected]; (276) 326-4257 Bluefield College became the home to NOSW's third campus in 2013. With a location in a beautiful mountain community on the state line of Virginia and West Virginia, the Bluefield NOSW program reaches out to women in the Appalachian regions of southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia. For more information on the NOSW at Bluefield College session, contact: Director 3000 College Drive Bluefield, VA 24605 |
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