Advance Kiawah Changing the Story

Being the Change

The systemic and racial injustices witnessed in 2020 have called forth a moment of reckoning across America and prompted a monumental question for the Kiawah Partners team: What are we going to do to change this story?

And in response, Advance Kiawah was born.

The multifaceted initiative was created to expand diversity and impact meaningful, lasting change across Kiawah Island and the Lowcountry. Following professional training to identify the inherent biases and inequities existing within the community, Kiawah’s top leadership created committees to finetune goals and devise a plan to reach them. Today, the blueprints are in place for creating a comprehensive, informed, and lasting strategy—a collective effort that could catalyze real change and eventually take on a life of its own.

“The new dawn blooms as we free it.
For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it,
if only we’re brave enough to be it.”
– Amanda Gorman, America’s First Youth Poet Laureate

Our Focus

Advance Kiawah channels its efforts into four distinct pillars. Each pillar is dependent on all others and it is crucial that symbiosis exists among the quartet to maximize the initiative’s impact.