A Wednesday Word from the Director | Change Takes Time

  Dear Community, We’ve come to the last full week of July. Can you believe it? Time is waiting for no one. Lately I’ve felt like I’ve been moving both in slow motion and at lightening speed. The days are flying by and as my to do list grows I feel like I am accomplishing

Community Educator Spotlight | Carly Wise-Levick

  We are pleased to feature Carly Wise-Levick in our latest Community Educator Spotlight About Carly Carly Wise-Levick is a money saving guru, blogger, & entrepreneur, who has almost two decades of experience saving money.  She has taught classes for colleges, nonprofits and community groups, teaching people how to save money.  A true couponing queen,

A Wednesday Word from the Director | Black Women Roc!

All month long we’ve been celebrating the beauty, grace, talent and success of black women in Rochester here on 540Blog as well as our social media platforms. I must say it has been one of the most wonderful blogging campaigns that I have ever created. Learning about the work, blood, sweat and tears that community

A Wednesday Word | Special Announcement from Our Director

This past year has been quite the journey. Building 540WMain and getting us to our one year anniversary has truly been a magical and life changing journey. I am so proud to finally have it fine tuned to the point where everything that I’ve envisioned makes sense in reality as much as it has made sense in my

Black Women Roc! Spotlight | Shalom Pearl Singer-Gause

  We are pleased to highlight Shalom Pearl Singer-Gause in our latest Black Women Roc! feature About Shalom Shalom Pearl Singr-Gause is a professional WNBF Figure Natural Bodybuilder,  She’s won the title Ms. Universe twice and last year finished 5th in the World Championship in LA. She teaches Aqua Zumba and owns a personal training