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Damien Godfrey with Lydia’s Place

June 7, 2018 by Mike

Beyond The Cupola

Damien Godfrey with Lydia's Place

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“Beyond the Cupola” allows invited customers, community, and team members of Oconee State Bank to have an opportunity to share their stories of success and inspiration, and/or how the Remarkable culture of Oconee State Bank has inspired them to mark lives in their own right.

Damien Godfrey/Lydia’s Place

Lydia’s Place serves young adults from ages 14 to 26 who have experienced foster care or homelessness. Built on Christian principles, they seek to demonstrate God’s love by providing basic needs during the transition to independent living.

Lydia’s Place is currently working to fund an on-campus apartment at the University of Georgia to be used for emergency housing. Students in need of housing will be given a place to stay for up to two weeks while a more permanent housing plan is being established.

Their next step is to build or renovate a larger facility in order to provide housing to needful students from UGA as well as surrounding schools such as Athens Technical College, Piedmont College and University of North Georgia.

Kris Jacober with Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation and Tamanie Sheldon with Arizonas Children Association E1

April 30, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Kris Jacober with Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation and Tamanie Sheldon with Arizonas Children Association E1

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Kris Jacober with Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation and Tamanie Sheldon with Arizonas Children Association E1

On this episode of 3C Amplified we discuss the needs of foster children, their foster families and the agencies who serve them. Did you know that each day in the State of Arizona approximately 24 children will come into foster care? Kris Jacober, Executive Director of Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation shared this statistic as well as her agency’s mission to help bring some normalcy to the lives of children and teens in care. Last year her nonprofit was able to grant more than $1Million so children and teens in foster care could participate in extracurricular activities, like sports and music, post-secondary education and for life’s surprises, like car maintenance.

Tamanie Sheldon, Program Director for Arizona’s Children Association, relayed the message that there is a great need for families willing to care for teens in foster care. Her agency is spending the month of May, also known as National Foster Care Month, recruiting new families to fill this need.

Want to get involved and help make a difference? Listen now to hear how you as a business owner or individual can help by becoming a mentor, hosting a backpack or toy drive, offer free event space, or participate in AFFCF’s Keys to Success Program.

The mission of the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation is to improve the lives of children in foster care in Arizona by funding social, athletic and educational activities and items that are not paid for in any other way. AFFCF pays for athletic registration, music lessons, theme park tickets, martial arts, gymnastics, summer camp, swim lessons and more. AFFCF also funds post-secondary scholarships for young men and women who have aged out of foster care. And, the AFFCF Keys to Success program provides one on one career development and employment services for youth in foster care and who have aged out of foster care, ages 16-21.

Kris Jacober is Executive Director of the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation and President of the Arizona Association for Foster and Adoptive Parents. Kris is most proud of her role as foster mom, and the care that she and her family have provided for 17 children in foster care over 15 years.

Prior to joining the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation in 2011, Kris filled marketing, communications and fundraising positions at Arizona’s Children Association and Aid to Adoption of Special Kids.

Kris is a graduate of the University of Michigan and moved to Arizona to ‘never be cold again.’ She is also a graduate of Valley Leadership Class XVII. Kris and her husband Joe were recognized by the Children’s Action Alliance as the 2013 Phoenix “Champions for Children.” She is also active in the ‘Recycle Your Bicycle” drive to collect and refurbish bikes for children in foster care. Kris and her husband Joe have been married for more than 33 years and have three children.

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Arizona’s Children Association (AzCA) is the best resource for helping children and families in the state. Our mission is to protect children, empower youth and strengthen families. Founded in 1912, we are now one of the oldest and largest statewide child welfare and behavioral health nonprofit agencies in Arizona. Our professionally trained, caring and dedicated staff provides a broad spectrum of services that help create and sustain a healthy family environment. We meet the needs of our local communities by providing foster care & adoption, behavioral health services, family preservation & reunification, kinship services, parenting education, and transitional youth services. Our programs serve more than 40,000 children, individuals and families in all 15 counties of the state each year. AzCA is nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA).

Tamanie Sheldon has worked in Child Welfare cumulatively for 11 years and worked specifically with Arizona’s Children Association in different capacities for nearly 6 of those years. Tamanie currently works as the Program Director of Foster Care and Adoption for Arizona’s Children Association and co-chairs for the Project Jigsaw committee. She has a Bachelor’s in Social Work from Arizona State University and continues to be an ambassador for the children and youth in foster care and the LGBTQ community within the child welfare realm; assuring persons from the LGBTQ community have the resources and information to become parents through foster care and/or adoption.

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About 3C Amplified

3C Amplified is a space to highlight businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals collaborating to amplify their impact in the community. We share real world examples for how partnerships allow for growth both within our businesses and our communities. Listen in as we share how others are connecting, creating and collaborating and how you can be part of something greater.

About Jacqueline Destremps

Jacqueline Destremps is a creative marketing strategist and founded Another Hand Advantage, LLC in 2014 to help community minded small business owners and nonprofit professionals move forward more confidently with their marketing strategy. After graduating from Arizona State University with a degree in Psychology, she has spent her professional career working in both the nonprofit and for-profit sector.

She now enjoys being self-employed and the flexibility it provides to allow more time to volunteer, serve on nonprofit boards, choose pro-bono projects, run 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun (which she co-founded in 2014) and travel the world. Jacqueline believes in creating connections between businesses and nonprofits in the community to stimulate growth and collaboration.

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Minsoo Pak with Sparks Grove, Joanne McClelland with Insperity, and Reginald Brown with Lutheran Services of Georgia

June 1, 2016 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Minsoo Pak with Sparks Grove, Joanne McClelland with Insperity, and Reginald Brown with Lutheran Services of Georgia

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Minsoo Pak, Joanne McClelland, Reginald Brown, Dominick Rainey

Minsoo Pak/Sparks Grove

Sparks Grove is an experience design firm that brings together business strategy and creative execution to help clients connect to people’s reason, emotion, and purpose. Sparks Grove uses insight, foresight, strategy, design and development to transform businesses into more human-centered, purpose-driven organizations. Sparks Grove is a part of North Highland, a global management consultancy that delivers unique value, relevant big ideas and strategic business capabilities to clients around the world.

Joanne McClelland/Insperity

More than 28 years ago, Insperity CEO Paul Sarvadi envisioned making business owners’ lives easier by taking HR and administrative burdens off their plates. So he decided to start a company with little more than 600 square feet of space and one telephone. Since then, Insperity has grown as a result of helping clients reach their goals. Their business model is simple: They’re dedicated to helping businesses succeed by taking care of the things that could be distracting you from the bigger picture. They do this by helping you control expenses, minimize risk exposure and maximize your opportunities for revenue generation.

Reginald Brown/Lutheran Services of Georgia

Lutheran Services of Georgia promotes services that enhance the stability, wellness, health, and safety of individuals and families in Georgia. Lutheran Services of Georgia (LSG) has seven offices statewide. They offer programs for adoption, disaster response, employment services, family and children services, foster care, and refugee resettlement.

Andi Swan of Bethany Christian Services and Reggie Brown of World Global Network

October 15, 2015 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Andi Swan of Bethany Christian Services and Reggie Brown of World Global Network

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Mike Sammond, Andi Swan, Reggie Brown, Steven Julian

Andi Swan/Bethany Christian Services

Bethany Christian Services is a global nonprofit organization that brings families together and keeps families together. Strengthening families for the well-being of children is their top priority. Their services include adoption, foster care, and pregnancy counseling. They also provide counseling to families, assist refugees and immigrants resettling in the U.S., and partner with several international countries to help keep families together. The work they do equips families to be the answer for children in need as Christ intended.

Bethany Christian Services is located in 36 states and works in many countries around the world. All of their U.S. offices provide pregnancy counseling and adoption services. Internationally, Bethany has been able to replicate adoption and foster care services in countries such as China and Ethiopia. They also have a sponsorship program and other programs that support children and families overseas.

Bethany envisions a world where every child has a loving family.

Reggie Brown/World Global Network

WOR(l)D stands apart as a leader in the global markets of media, mobile and wearable technologies. Employing the brightest minds and best professionals, WOR(l)D constantly invest in great ideas and highly motivated people. Every WOR(l)D product reflects its passion for research, innovation and environmental responsibility.

Founded in 2011, WOR(l)D is a recognized as a leading player in the drive towards a more economically stable, socially connected, “greener” world. Leveraging a new business paradigm, WOR(l)D seeks to transcend every social and economic boundary. Using innovative products and a proven, direct selling business model WOR(l)D is helping people around the globe to transform their lives and their livelihoods.

WOR(l)D’s phenomenal success is built in partnership with of thousands of dedicated, ambitious people worldwide who identify with WOR(l)D values and who promote WOR(l)D’s innovation. Many of those same people who started on the ground floor have risen to influential positions in WOR(l)D global markets. Through the efforts of this dynamic, close, growing group of people, WOR(l)D products are being used, read about and studied in more than 100 countries.

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Dr. Bill Lampton with Championship Communication and Sally Buchanan with Creative Community Services

May 29, 2014 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Dr. Bill Lampton with Championship Communication and Sally Buchanan with Creative Community Services

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Mike Sammond, Paula Fine, Bill Lampton, Sally Buchanan, Steven Julian

Dr. Bill Lampton/Championship Communication

Formed in 1997, Championship Communication – based in Gainesville, Georgia – has served top tier clients including Gillette, Duracell, Procter & Gamble, Ritz Carlton Cancun, British Columbia Legal Management Association, the Missouri Bar, and the University of Georgia Athletic Association. Dr. Lampton provides keynote speeches, directs seminars, and helps companies identify and find solutions to their communication problems. Additionally, he trains people on how to produce top quality videos with their i-Pad cameras. Google ranks him constantly among the top three Speech Coaches in Georgia. His presentation topics cover communication, sales, customer service, and motivation. His motto: “Helping You Finish in First Place!”

Sally Buchanan/Creative Community Services

Creative Community Services is a nonprofit organization that improves the quality of life for children, teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout the state of Georgia.