Thompson Partners with Feeding Charlotte this Giving Tuesday

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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Thompson Child & Family Focus (Thompson), in collaboration with local non-profit food rescue organization Feeding Charlotte, is expanding reach and bringing greater awareness to the issue of food insecurity, and those who struggle with taking care of basic human needs. With Thompson’s program, “A Child’s Place,” (ACP) as a new partner, […]

Fight for our TCFF culture in all your daily actions!

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As many of you may or may not know I have been a part of shaping the culture at Thompson for over 33 years and have also spent 30+ years on the sidelines coaching college, high school and youth sports. I’ve been a front-line staff member, manager, director, leader, supervisor, Vice President, Sr. Vice President, […]

Never Stop Learning: When You Stop Learning, You Stop Growing

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What is a Learning Culture?   A Learning Culture consists of an organization of individuals instilled with a growth mindset. A growth mindset is when an individual believes their talents can be developed through hard work, good strategies, and input from others. To effectively contribute to the mission of the organization, we must foster an environment where […]

Jessica finally feels a sense of hope

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Jessica dreams of going to college for Forensic Science with the goal of working for the FBI doing both investigation and science. She currently enjoys robotics and engineering at school. Jessica was just 2 months old when she was taken into foster care due to maternal drug use and a father in prison for drug […]

Fundamental: We Don’t Argue With The Data

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I’ve been with Thompson a little over 4 years now working in the PQI department and there have been many changes to our data reporting. For example, we used to use Excel spreadsheets that one person would take weeks to compile, including program quality metrics, employee data, and finance data. Manually crunching numbers, it was […]

Fundamental: “Quality Begets Quantity”

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Many of you may know, I am a proud father of McKenzie, my precious 4-year-old daughter. One of the many things I am working with her on is the importance of taking care of what you have, and in doing so, more will come. I think this is a very important concept for her to […]