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Food Insecurity in Gwinnett County

September 9, 2021 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Food Insecurity in Gwinnett County

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Heather Loveridge, Muriam Nafees, Ryan Jones and Fay Josephs

Muriam Nafees/Project Coordinator, Volunteer Gwinnett

Volunteer Gwinnett is a county-wide volunteer program designed to involve residents in volunteer activities. Gwinnett County depends on volunteers to help provide residents with the best services and programs possible. Their volunteers directly contribute to the excellent quality of life residents enjoy in the community.

Ryan Jones/Director of Community Development, Neighborhood Co-operative Ministries

Neighborhood Cooperative Ministries (NCM) is a faith-based, non-profit, ecumenical ministry dedicated to providing emergency assistance to families in Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Doraville and Tucker, Georgia of Gwinnett County. NCM is supported by twenty three local churches and numerous businesses, civic and social organizations, foundations, and individuals.

Fay Josephs/Founder and Executive Director, Mending the Gap

Mending the Gap provides seniors with one-on-one supportive services that will meet their basic needs and alleviate isolation while creating healthy and fulfilling relationships. Their mission is keeping seniors healthy, independent, and connected.

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Housing in Gwinnett County

August 12, 2021 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Housing in Gwinnett County

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Matt Elder, Kristina Blum, Heather Loveridge

Kristina Blum/Gwinnett Chief Magistrate Judge

Gwinnett County Magistrate Court‘s jurisdiction encompasses civil claims of $15,000 or less, county ordinance violations, applications for and issuance of arrest and search warrants, preliminary hearings, dispossessory writs, and distress warrants. No jury trials are held in this court. Appeals from decisions in landlord, tenant and civil cases are made to the Superior and State courts.

Matt Elder/Executive Director, HomeFirst Gwinnett

The HomeFirst Gwinnett Initiative is a collaborative partnership formed between the United Way of Greater Atlanta, Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners and The Primerica Foundation, seeking to develop a strategic, coordinated approach to addressing homelessness in Gwinnett County by better connecting services for those who need them most.

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Education in Gwinnett County

July 27, 2021 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Education in Gwinnett County

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Scott Mawdesley, Kim Holland, Heather Loveridge and Jason DiFranco

Kim Holland/Director of Early Learning & School Readiness at Gwinnett Co. Public Schools

The Office of Early Learning and School Readiness strives to ensure that all students enter Kindergarten ready to learn at high levels. In creating partnerships with parents, public and private organizations as well as businesses, they are able to align developmental and academic standards for children from birth to 5 years old and develop and implement effective instructional practices aimed at school readiness.

Jason DiFranco/Director of Development & Community Relations at Gwinnett Public Library

The Gwinnett County Public Library is a free provider of education and information for the people of Gwinnett County. Serving Gwinnett County’s over 860,000 residents, Gwinnett County Public Library is dedicated to providing convenient, creative, customer-friendly access to materials and services.

Scott Mawdesley/Vice President at Corners Academy

Scott Mawdesley is passionate about the innovative and collaborative work he and his team are doing at Corners Outeach to help Latinx families succeed economically and educationally across the community. Corners is helping the working poor of the community become self-reliant by providing academic support and vocational pathways through which the whole family can thrive.

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Better Together: The Power of Collective Impact

May 13, 2021 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Better Together: The Power of Collective Impact

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Randy Redner, Paige Havens, Renee Byrd-Lewis and Heather Loveridge

Randy Redner/Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

At the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia, everything they do centers around one purpose – improving our world through the power of philanthropy.

On a fundamental level, they do that through managing funds held in trust, donated by individuals, organizations and businesses. Most funds are donor-advised funds, similar to savings accounts. These funds are pooled for investment purposes and their income is used to make grants for a wide variety of charitable purposes.

But their goals expand far beyond managing funds. They desire to strengthen the communities they serve in Gwinnett, Northeast Georgia and beyond by providing leadership, addressing community needs, and assisting individuals and organizations with their charitable giving.

Renee Byrd-Lewis/Gwinnett Coalition

The Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services is a public/private partnership whose mission is to facilitate collaboration that improves the well-being of the community.

They accomplish this mission by identifying needs and resources, setting priorities, planning solutions, focusing on results, and educating and motivating the community to action.

Paige Havens/Gwinnett Cares

Gwinnett Cares is an online grassroots effort that’s spun from a large group of community stakeholders (citizens, municipalities, businesses, non-profits, schools, faith community, healthcare providers, civic clubs, etc.) to streamline communication to Gwinnett’s population of a million people about how to get and give help during COVID-19.

Their goal is to synchronize Gwinnett’s existing support services and infrastructure to effectively address real-time needs across the community. Response teams, made up of community leaders and subject matter experts, have formed in 5 key focus areas: Food Insecurity & Supplies, Homelessness & Housing, Healthcare Access, Educational Support, and Workforce Development.

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