Welcome to the (temporary) Foothills Kids Magazine website!

Foothills Kids Magazine is a developing not-for-profit publication that aims to enrich and promote the educational development of children and instill pride in the communities of Western North Carolina.

Previously a classroom educational supplement published by local magazine editor Carmen Eckard, Foothills Kids Magazine will become its own not-for-profit organization with the help of Lenoir-Rhyne University Masters of Business Administration students.

Stay tuned for more information as Foothills Kids Magazine evolves and develops into a western North Carolina classic for kids — about kids.

We will have a separate website for Foothills Kids Magazine — coming soon — so check back to this page for regular developments of our adventure in western NC!

We hope to distribute the magazine, regularly, to western NC schools so please put us in touch with your public or private school, or homeschooling group!

This is a community effort — so please be a part.

-Foothills Kids

For updates about operational developments, information about potential sponsorships/donations, or press inquiries, please contact Foothills Kids Executive Director Mr. Aaron Kohrs at aakohrs121@yahoo.com.
For story ideas or to contribute creatively to Foothills Kids Magazine, please contact Foothills Kids Magazine Creative Editor and Chief Ms. Carmen Eckard at carmeneckard@gmail.com.

Updates on our Journey to Explore Western North Carolina

Meet the Magazine Team

Creative Editor and Chief – Ms. Carmen Eckard

Executive (Administrative) Director – Mr. Aaron Kohrs

Meet the Board of Directors

President – Mr. Cliff Moone

Vice-President/Secretary – Ms. Katye Fredieu

Treasurer – Ms. Monica Parache

Mr. Jack Almeida

Mr. Richard Eller

Ms. Tracy Hall

5/9/2020 –

Thank you to our Lenoir-Rhyne University Masters of Business Administration students (under the direction of Dr. Ralph Griffith) for spending their spring semester brainstorming organizational by-laws, capital plans, and marketing campaigns for Foothills Kids Magazine – as a part of their experiential business learning.

Students include Alexander Langer, Kendall Fischlein, Carlos Rubio, Josh Alderson, Jaclyn Denny, Mee Vang, Ryan Crompton, and Cassidy Joyner.

5/9/2020 –

Follow Foothills Kids Magazine on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/Foothills-KIDS-Magazine-112517347092692/

Twitter – Twitter.com/FoothillsKids

Instagram – Instagram.com/Foothills.Kids

Share with friends and people in your network with school-aged children!

5/14/2020 –

• Foothills Kids Magazine’s non-profit formation and partnership with LRU MBA students featured on WBTV’s “Queen City Morning Show”! See here: https://qclife.wbtv.com/foothills-kids-magazine/

• Foothills Kids Magazine non-profit and LRU MBA partnership featured in Morganton News Herald: https://www.morganton.com/news/publication-becomes-nonprofit-with-help-of-l-r-students/article_2087cdf0-2c58-5088-b866-c626273cffd3.html

5/29/2020 –

Foothills Kids Magazine Non-Profit Board of Directors adopted the Board/ organizational by-laws written by the LRU MBA students at their regular monthly meeting on the last Friday of the month at 12:00 p.m. These will be posted on-line, publicly.

Ideas for fundraising/development discussed and plans for the start of operations (production of magazines) tentatively planned for when NC K-12 schools re-open.

6/26/2020 –

Foothills Kids Magazine Non-Profit Board of Directors met for their regular monthly (currently virtual) meeting to discuss organizational progress – all non-profit registration and fees have been submitted, development/fundraising ideas shared, and the planned topic for the first issue (as well as on-line associated applications) agreed upon. Let’s keep going together!

Executive Director Aaron Kohrs shared Foothills Kids Magazine Non-Profit progress has been published on Hickory Macaroni Kid, the regional on-line media resource platform for families and children, here: https://hickory.macaronikid.com/articles/5ecf23c3acd1fc4cf97b45ed/foothills-kids-to-become-non-profit-organization.

Volunteers and ideas always welcome! E-mail us, follow FK on social media!