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Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett

August 13, 2020 by Mike

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Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett

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Jamie Hamilton, Tom Sheldon and Mike Maloney

Mike Maloney & Jamie Hamilton/Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett

For more than 30 years, Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett (SNS) has been educating and empowering children and young adults in Gwinnett, DeKalb, Newton, and surrounding counties who need a dedicated and flexible school setting to maximize their potential. They nurture and challenge each student at their own level while instilling a positive self-image and love for learning that will last a lifetime. With a unique individualized education and behavior model, cross category and severity grouping, parent driven planning, and a dedicated team of educates, they have created the premier special needs educational experience in the region.

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Kidney Donor Match and Feed The Streetz Foundation

May 14, 2020 by Mike

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Kidney Donor Match and Feed The Streetz Foundation

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Jariel Jones, Tom Vooris, Amanda Hayhurst

Amanda Hayhurst/Kidney Donor Match

The goal of Kidney Donor Match is to tell the personal story of every person on the kidney wait list. They believe there is great power in stories. Connections are built and empathy is born. They are passionate about helping patients find their life-saving kidney donor and raising living kidney donor awareness so that others not only feel more comfortable with donating, but excited to donate. As fellow kidney donors, they know how extraordinary it is for both the donor and recipient when someone steps up to give this incredible gift of life.

Jariel Jones/Feed The Streetz Foundation

Feed The Streetz Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Atlanta, GA. Their mission is to fight homelessness hunger, help homeless people come out of poverty, change people’s lives for the better, and change the world for the better.

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North Georgia Bearded Villains and Positive Impact

March 12, 2020 by Mike

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North Georgia Bearded Villains and Positive Impact

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Jeremy Durkin, Tom Vooris, Tami Wilder and Billy Brown

Jeremy Durkin & Billy Brown/North Georgia Bearded Villains

North Georgia Bearded Villains (NGBV) is a brotherhood of good-hearted, charity minded gentlemen from North Georgia. They are dedicated to changing the public perception of men with beards, through charity, family, respect and loyalty to Bearded Villain brothers from all over the world. They align themselves with the Mission Statement of the Brotherhood: “To unite bearded men of all cultures, races, creed and sexuality in a brotherhood devoted to loyalty, honor and respect toward all people, dedicated to the betterment of mankind through fraternity charity and kindness.

Tami Wilder/Positive Impact

Positive Impact provides life-impacting social services including performing arts and sport programs to children and families throughout economically challenged communities across Metro Atlanta. Positive people create positive impact. Stay positive!

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Planned Pethood of Georgia and Camp Dream

February 13, 2020 by Mike

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Planned Pethood of Georgia and Camp Dream

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Yvette Pegues, Gary Marshall and Lauren Frost

Lauren Frost/Planned Pethood of Georgia

Planned Pethood is a 501(c0(3) nonprofit animal welfare organization based in Duluth, GA. They are dedicated to helping pets and the people who care for them with innovative programs and affordable services.

They fulfill that mission in several ways: Operating a low-cost spay/neuter clinic that fixes 5,000 owned dogs and cats and feral cats each year; offering low-cost vaccination clinics at least once a month serving more than 1,000 pets a year; and rescuing and rehabilitating about 750 homeless pets each year and finding them loving forever homes.

Gary Marshall & Yvette Pegues/Camp Dream

Camp Dream offers recreational Summer Camp and Camp Out programs for children and young adults with moderate to severe physical and developmental disabilities. Camp Dream programs are 100% volunteer, providing a 1-to-1 camper to counselor ratio during its Summer Camp sessions. Camp Dream offers a barrier free environment and has never turned away a camper due to the severity of their disability or their financial capability.

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Still Waters International Academy, Cat Rangers and Bexley & DeLoach

January 9, 2020 by Mike

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Still Waters International Academy, Cat Rangers and Bexley & DeLoach

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Tom Vooris, Sharon O’Connor, Sparrow Marcioni, Robert Bexley

Sharon O’Connor/Still Waters International Academy

Established in 2007, Still Waters International Academy is a private school located in Norcross, GA and servicing the greater Atlanta metro area. Their day care and preschool programs educate children from 6 months of age through 4 years old, while their elementary and middle school, after-school and music programs service children in grades pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade.

The student body and staff represent over 15 countries, making the school a true reflection of people around the world. Through their comprehensive academic programs, they offer a safe and fun learning environment where teachers focus on educating the whole child: spiritually, academically and socially.

Sparrow Marcioni/Cat Rangers

Cat Rangers is saving the lives of cats and kittens one paw at a time. They are the “special forces” of cat rescue and all of their kitty’s recover at their center in Buford, GA while they wait to find their forever homes. Visitors are welcome!

Robert Bexley/Bexley & DeLoach, LLC

Bexley & DeLoach is a boutique firm operated by Managing Partners Robert S. Bexley and Jennifer L. DeLoach. Robert and Jennifer are Gwinnett natives who specialize in providing affordable legal consultation and representation to individuals and families, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations. The firm will help you develop your company, address all of your nonprofit and small business legal issues, and provide you with ongoing legal representation as your corporate attorney.

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Hudgens Center for Art & Learning and Aidan Cares

December 13, 2019 by Mike

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Hudgens Center for Art & Learning and Aidan Cares

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Aidan Anderson, Mama T, Tom Vooris, Kate Nelson Driscoll

Kate Nelson Driscoll/Hudgens Center for Art & Learning

Founded over 35 years ago, the Hudgens Center for Art & Learning is a non-profit dedicated to spreading the love of art and learning throughout Gwinnett County. The facility helps adults and children discover the power of imagination with fine art exhibitions, arts enrichment classes, self-guided tours, and community outreach programs.

Aidan Anderson and Mama T/Aiden Cares

The mission of Aidan Cares is to inspire people of all generations and economic backgrounds to share in the joy and necessity of giving, partnering with nonprofits, communities, and individuals to magnify the good they want to see in the world. Now in it’s 11th year, Aidan Cares is an independent 501c3 created by a board of supporters that believe in this crucial mission. All donations are used for impacting youth and adults along their paths to give and serve partnering to do so with charities doing awesome stuff.

Revved Up Kids and Care4All Children Services

November 15, 2019 by Mike

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Revved Up Kids and Care4All Children Services

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Carla Simms, Veronica Guobadia, Tom Vooris, Alli Neal

Alli Neal/Revved Up Kids

It is the mission of Revved Up Kids to provide programs and safety resources that equip and empower participants to recognize and avoid dangerous situations and people, and to escape violence if necessary.

Revved Up Kids believes that the easiest target for a predator is a child who doesn’t know predators exist. It is their mission to teach kids who predators are, how they operate, and how to respond if they meet a predator. Their personal safety and self-defense training for children has been proven to change a child’s understanding about who predators are, improve self-protective behaviors and increase confidence in responding to a predator. Children have avoided and escaped attacks as a result of their training, and children have disclosed sexual abuse as a result of their training.

They work with private groups and child-serving organizations in the metro Atlanta area, training thousands of children every year. Visit their Programs Page for more information about our personal safety and self-defense training programs.

Veronica Guobadia and Carla Simms/Care4All Children Services

Care4All Children Services is licensed by the State of Georgia through the Department of Human Services – Office of Regulatory Child Care (DHS – ORCC) to provide placements and social services to children in foster care. The agency holds a contract with the Office of Provider Management (OPM) and partners with the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS).

Care4All Children Services recruits, trains and recommends families to OPM for approval in order to obtain a license to foster children in their homes. Once a home is licensed and children are placed for care, Care4All provides follow up social services to ensure that the basic needs of the children and parents are met.

As a Therapeutic Foster Care Agency, Care4All requires more training for parents initially and on-going. The agency also provides more support for children and caregivers. Treatment foster care is preferred over residential or group home-care because it maintains children in family settings, which in turn reduces incidences of trauma. To ensure the safety and security of children, Care4All’s intensive foster parent training includes crisis management and emergency response.

Because One Matters and Beyond the Ribbon

October 10, 2019 by Mike

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Because One Matters and Beyond the Ribbon

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Andrea Barclay, Tom Vooris, Bobbie Menneg

Andrea Barclay/Because One Matters

Because One Matters is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is dedicated to creating lasting memories for Georgia’s foster children. This is done through three distinct initiatives: (1) hosting quarterly birthday celebrations (2) Home for the Holiday’s program and (3) Soothing the Soul duffel bag program.

Bobbie Menneg/Beyond the Ribbon

Beyond the Ribbon‘s mission is to advocate for support and resources beyond the diagnosis of cancer, to educate, inspire hope, cultivate awareness and empower individuals throughout their journey and beyond.

Square One for Youth and Village of Hope

November 9, 2017 by Mike

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Square One for Youth and Village of Hope

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Brandon Barton, Lynn Robinette, Jan Jones

Brandon Barton/Square One for Youth

Square One for Youth is a local not-for-profit foundation created by Gene Whobrey in Suwanee that focuses on career guidance and golf instruction. The lessons they teach go beyond academics and golf. They also integrate important values such as ambition, compassion, integrity, respect, work ethic, and accountability, which can positively impact every aspect of their students’ lives. The Mission of Square One for Youth is to help Gwinnett’s in-need youth succeed personally, academically, and, ultimately, professionally. By investing in their lives through vocational guidance, mentoring, academic tutoring, and golf instruction, Square One opens doors to opportunities that allow their students to achieve success.

Jan Jones/Village of Hope

Village of Hope in Lawrenceville, GA is a non-profit organization compelled by the love, grace and teachings of Jesus Christ to restore hope to the homeless and those in need by recognizing the uniqueness of each individual, family and situation, meeting basic human needs and fostering those who desire to reach their full potential as self-sufficient, productive and responsible human beings.