Responding to the ever increasing need to educate, enlighten and train disadvantaged youth in North Carolina, communities, the Darensburg Family is proud to announce the formation of the The Darensburg Foundation. The Darensburg Foundation was created to advance the skills, training and education of the children of North Carolina. This will be achieved by training them in practical marketplace skills and by introducing them to educational resources that will make the marketable and prepared to face the challenges of the new global job market.
To simply say that Mrs. Gladys Mae Rogers Darensburg was the inspiration behind the Darensburg Foundation is to understate her significance: she was much more. Gladys Darensburg was the inspiration for a whole community and educational system. Her life was a testament to what courage, commitment to excellence, dedication to a greater goal, and complete reliance on a higher power can achieve.
She was educated in the Vance County Elementary Schools, a graduate of the Henderson Institute and received her Bachelor of Science Degree in education from Fayetteville State University (Fayetteville State Teachers College) pursued and received a Master Degree in Education at Fordham University, Bronx, New York and completed further studies at UCLA University in Los Angeles, California.
Gladys Mae Rogers Darensburg, put her extensive educational background to good use in the Vance Community Schools as a teacher and elementary supervisor. In addition to an already impressive commitment to educating the children of North Carolina, she served as a principal for 43 years.
Rev. Lilipiana D.
Darensburg,
BS., MRE, MDIV
President and Executive Director of The Darensburg Foundation
was born March 10, 1922, in Henderson, North Carolina, the youngest of three children of the late Thomas and Mamie Dunston Rogers. She departed on Monday, April 5. 2004.
To train disadvantaged youth in occupations related to the 21st century job market.
To Provide a professional mentoring environment for our youth.
To provide broadcast and media training in all areas of communications.
To expose disadvantaged youth of North Carolina to educational opportunities throughout the United States.
To assist disadvantaged North Carolina high school students in acquiring the educational credentials to qualify for admission to four year college educational opportunities.
As in any great undertaking, financial support is critical to success. Achieving these monumental goals of providing educational training in broadcast media is not without great cost. Therefore, we need your financial support now to continue in this great work.
Please take a moment to download this donation form below and fill out the information requested. We have included various denomination amounts. We are hopeful that you will find one suitable to you.
The foundation can not be successful without your input and support. Each one of us in our respective communities are morally charged with the responsibility of protecting the whole community. The most precious and sacred of which are our youth. Let us all come together to help these young people grow their future. Truly, their success becomes our legacy. Please contact us and lend your assistance with any and all resources as your disposal.
Please forward any suggestions for assistance with resources to:
Gladys Roger Darensburg Foundation
c/o Lilipiana Darensburg
President/Executive Director
P.O. Box 25746
Raleigh, North Carolina
In this new employment environment residents of various continents compete for the same job position and not just residents of the same town. No longer does “on the job training” allow entrance into the employment market. You must be job ready on applying, and that means, well educated and well trained in a mission targeted task.
This premier Foundation for youth training was inspired by Gladys Darensburg, the mother of Logan Darensburg, who is the Chair and CEO of Darensburg Broadcasting and the Owner of WARR Radio. Mrs Lilipiana Darensburg, is the organizations President and Executive Director. The Gladys Rogers Darensburg Foundation was formed to give youth from disadvantaged communities a competitive edge. This will be achieved by training them in advanced technologies, beginning with broadcasting because, in an age of change, increasing job loss, space age advancement in computer technology and competitive pressure from other continents, only the well trained and well educated will prosper.
