Tanya Seymour

Community outreach professional Tanya Seymour brings both organizational skill and personal dedication to her extensive work with youth. Serving as Vice President of the Richard Seymour Blessing God's Children (BCG) Foundation, she organizes community events aimed at supporting the positive growth of young people. Through this work, Tanya Seymour empowers children to grow and succeed.

Tanya Seymour takes a multifaceted approach to leadership of the BCG Foundation. Responsible for organizational finances, she manages the foundation's budgets to ensure departmental needs are met while maintaining long-term viability. She also manages all personnel operations for the foundation, maintaining a careful balance between task load and staffing levels. She personally assigns staff to coordinate foundation events, and she coaches them to ensure their effectiveness. On the larger scale, Tanya Seymour develops and maintains policies and procedures that ensure continuing foundation operations.

In addition to leading operational efforts, Tanya Seymour conducts numerous public outreach and awareness campaigns. Effectively placing the organization in a position of high visibility, she ensures that potential supporters know of foundation events and activities. These events include the foundation's popular annual Back to School Celebration, its influential Summer Camp Program, and its Christmas Gifting initiative. These efforts encourage and empower young people in South Carolina, Georgia, and California.

Tanya Seymour supports the community in many other ways as well. She donates to the Antioch African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church and the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, both in South Carolina, as well as the Eastover Division of the Richland County Recreation Commission in South Carolina. In addition, she and her husband, Richard, donated funds to build a training and weight room at their alma mater, Lower Richland High School.