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Discover how attending Back to School Night strengthens parent-teacher partnerships, boosts student success, and keeps you connected all year long.

Celebrate National Park Week with SML Good Neighbors! Discover how our students in Bedford and Franklin Counties connect with nature at Booker T. Washington National Monument.

SML Good Neighbors is gathering feedback on free after-school arts enrichment for Bedford and Franklin County elementary students. Take our 3-minute survey!

Wishing all the amazing staff, teachers, students, bus drivers, and families at Franklin County Public Schools a wonderful, happy, and healthy new school year! We are so proud of the students heading back this Thursday with a boost in their reading levels thanks to our Reading Buddies Program. Have the best first week back!

An Incredible Final Week of Camp at SML Good Neighbors! Celebrating our last week of camp with stellar youth volunteers from Bethlehem UMC and the SPARK program. Thank you for reading, packing, and serving!

SML Good Neighbors Honored in The Best of SML 2025! SML Good Neighbors, Inc. is proud to be featured in The Best of SML 2025. Thank you to our community for supporting our nutrition, enrichment, and educational programs.

For a community like ours, after-school programs are essential. In rural areas, they often represent one of the only opportunities for students to safely access enrichment activities that extend beyond the traditional school day. These programs provide a vital, safe space during critical after-school hours, offering not only adult supervision but also nutritious snacks and the chance to build positive peer and mentor relationships.

Building Confidence and Literacy Through the Arts with SML Good Neighbors in Bedford and Franklin County Virginia.

As a new school year begins, we want to take a moment to celebrate the incredible work that took place in our summer program and the amazing people who make it possible.

Yesterday morning, SML Good Neighbors met with Tim Reith and Jason Hodnett, representing the SML Songwriters Festival and SML Wine Festival. Local nonprofit organizations, including Good Neighbors, benefit from various SML Songwriters Festival musical events throughout the summer season.

SML Good Neighbors, Inc. is honored to have been selected again as one of the participating charities for the SML Charity Home Tour in Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia.

SML Good Neighbors Intern to Employee. Intern follow up story.

SML Good Neighbors Internship team 2025. That's a wrap!

SML Good Neighbors Spirit Week Continues. Today is Storybook Character Day.

Happy Monday Good Neighbors Family. We are kicking Spirit Week and the last week of Summer Camp.

The SML Good Neighbors board team, community friends, staff and our awesome Reading Buddy volunteers have been hard at work this week.