One Dozen Who Care, Inc
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2025 Multicultural Womens Development Conference
Claiming Our Power:
Owning Our Worth, Shaping Our Future
The 2025 Multicultural Womens Development Conference will be held at the Hinton Life Center in Hayesville NC on April 4th and 5th 2025.
For nearly 25 years One Dozen Who Care has hosted this dynamic conference that features keynote speakers and breakout sessions focusing topics including education, self-care, health, empowerment, and economic development and sustainability.
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Our Programs
Serving far Western North Carolina
One Dozen Who Care, Inc. has sponsored a variety of programs throughout its history. While some programs focused on training youth to be future leaders, others honored our most precious elders on whose shoulders we stand. We hope you are encouraged to get involved when looking at our current programs; and inspired by looking back at some of our past.
Current Programs
Multicultural Women’s Development Conference
MWDC is an annual two-day conference held in Hayesville, NC with the goals of teaching women self-reliance skills, building relationships across culture and race, increasing self-confidence and respect, and re-connecting women to their culture and heritage.
Purel Miller African American Book Collection
ODWC has established an African American book collection in the Andrews branch library named in honor of a local African American community leader, Purel Miller.
One Dozen Who Care – Prescott Scholarship for Higher Education
The One Dozen Who Care – Prescott Scholarship is awarded each year to a black woman demonstrating the drive and determination to pursue higher education, in order to assist with financial need, and in recognition of her passion toward academic excellence.
In Development
Multicultural Women's Development Programs
ODWC is committed to help empower women not only during our annual two-day Multicultural Women’s Development Conference, but also by providing expanded opportunities to grow, learn, and share throughout the year.
Stay tuned!
Rising Youth Program
Building on the remarkable success of our previous 10-10-10 program, which transformed the lives of countless young people in Western North Carolina, we are launching a new initiative to address the urgent needs of at-risk youth in Cherokee County. This program is designed to empower, uplift, and equip our youth with the skills and confidence necessary to break the cycle of poverty, overcome trauma, and contribute positively to their community.
Our Previous Programs
Elder Dinner/Celebration
ODWC holds an annual multi-racial luncheon to honor the elders of our community. Keeping in touch with and honoring the elders of the community gives ODWC the needed relationships with our older citizens and provides resource material necessary to document history as they have created it.
Small Business Entrepreneurial Program (SBEP)
directed at potential youth entrepreneurs was implemented. With the potential support of a new constituency of African American men (100 Strong) and other men in the region, we planned to provide empowerment-focused …
10-10-10 Youth Empowerment Program
This very successful project focused on youth, in an effort to encourage young people who may not be aware of the rich history of the African Americans in America to step into leadership and entrepreneurial positions.
CultureFest
A list of five possible levels of cultural diversity/antiracism work, from formal to informal have been used or will be developed: 1) host an annual cultural festival event separate from the Women’s Conference; 2) structured cultural diversity trainings …
When All God’s Children Get Together: A Celebration of African American Church Music and the Lives of a People in Far Western North Carolina
The All God’s Children festival was ODWC’s premiere event in 1998. It is a documentary of local African American history and culture as shown through the voices and faces of the elders and the Black Church.
ODWC Small Business Center (SBC)
The Small Business Center (SBC) was an entrepreneurial training site that included a Latino Outreach Project for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). It was created with a three-way purpose to benefit diverse participants from the counties in far western North Carolina: 1) to teach new technologies …
Chautauqua AVE!
(Andrews Valley Experience), founded by ODWC has sponsored a group or speaker for the community-wide festival events held biennially in Andrews. We have participated in the program in Andrews, NC to encourage a consciousness and appreciation of the life and sacrifice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to highlight …
Martin Luther King, Jr. Storytellers’ Guild
This initial project taught public speaking skills to those who chose to participate in it. Taught by Master Storyteller, Janice Inabinett, we sponsored speakers for the Chautauqua AVE! events for several years.
ODWC Newsline
In the past, ODWC has used this publication to highlight its achievements and those of its constituents, publicize its work, announce the Multicultural Women’s Development Conference and raise funds for sustainability.
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