Business

Fit Culture celebrates grand opening on Daniel Island

It’s time to get pumped, Daniel Island! When it comes to fitness offerings, there’s a new game in town that promises to take healthier living to a whole new level. On April 1, Daniel Island residents Sarah and Ben Sands celebrated the grand opening of their new Fit Culture studio, located at 186...

Recognition: The Fuel of Employee Engagement

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but rather strive to be worthy of recognition. – Abraham Lincoln A story is told of the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo who happened to overhear a group of people admiring his Pieta, a statue of Christ on His mother’s knees after His death on...

Calling Entrepreneurs! Looking for mentors and funding? Want to pitch?

Calling Entrepreneurs. If you’re an entrepreneur with a viable business or business idea and would like to be one of the ten entrepreneurs chosen to pitch to a panel of angel and venture capital investors at the June 29 What’s The Big Idea? at the Daniel Island Club, arrange your screening...

Daniel Island News staff honored with prestigious writing, design and videography awards

The Daniel Island News editorial and design staff was recently recognized for outstanding writing, design and videography by the South Carolina Press Association at their annual meeting. Designer and videographer Jan Marvin took top first place honors in the All-Weekly Newspaper Division for...

Excess Baggage: How to Lighten Your Load as a Leader

Writing in The Living Faith, Lloyd C. Douglas tells the story of Thomas Hearne, who, “in his journey to the mouth of the Coppermine River, wrote that a few days after they had started on their expedition, a party of Indians stole most of their supplies. His comment on the apparent misfortune was: ‘...

Business briefs

Local nonprofit receives SunTrust grant to help promote homeownership Family Services, Inc. (FSI) was among one of the 15 nonprofit housing agencies nationwide to receive generous grants from SunTrust Mortgage, the home loan subsidiary of SunTrust Banks, Inc., (NYSE: STI). The Charleston-based...

If These Walls Could Talk

Over the years I’ve had the privilege of visiting numerous art galleries and museums around the world. Included on the list are the National Museum of Art in Washington, D.C. and venues in other places like Boston, London, and Athens. Each have a certain appeal and allure that awaken the...

DIBA (Daniel Island Business Association) Happy Hour

The March Daniel Island Business Association Block Party was held at The Studio by Ashton Woods. Pictured – Front Row: Greystar Daniel Island Village sponsors Kayla Ailor and Colleen Hoover, sponsors from Cooper Cosmetic & Family Dentistry Dr. Amber Connar and Dr. Amy Cooper, sponsors from Oak...

Why do the good ones leave?

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams How is the organizational culture where you work? How is morale? Depending on the day and when asked, the answers can run the gambit of responses and emotions. A document was...

Hope for discouraged leaders

If you are alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be. – Joel Osteen In 1858 the Illinois legislature- using an obscure statute- sent Stephen A. Douglas to the U.S. Senate instead of Abraham Lincoln, although Lincoln had won the popular vote. When a sympathetic...