minuteman press of duluth Archives

Square One for Youth and Village of Hope

November 9, 2017 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

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.

Full Supply and Special Kneads and Treats

October 12, 2017 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Full Supply and Special Kneads and Treats

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Connie Menser, Lynn Robinette, Tempa Kohler

Connie Menser/Full Supply

Full Supply is a non-profit organization that was founded by Connie Menser in 2004 to enrich women’s relationships with Jesus Christ, teach application principles, and equip women for life and leadership. Through one-on-one mentoring and group mentoring, women gain confidence to share their faith, obtain practical tools for life, and discover their God-given passion and purpose. As a result, these women become leaders who mentor others for Christ, as well as leaders within their churches and communities. Some women start their own businesses, while others thrive where God already has them. In addition to helping women to grow in Christ and become Christian leaders, the ministry further impacts multitudes of women along their faith journey by leading workshops or teaching at events and conferences in the U.S. and abroad. It is by God’s grace, the ministry of Full Supply has expanded from the U.S. into Russia, Venezuela and Kenya.

Tempa Kohler/Special Kneads and Treats

Special Kneads and Treats is a 501c3 non-profit bakery with a core mission to try and ensure that any child in their community that has a birthday receives a birthday cake for free if the family cannot afford a cake. Their business focus is the hiring of special needs adults once they age out of county programs. They work with DFCS, Foster Care, and local food cooperative ministries, as well as many other local support groups to get these cakes into the hands of those in need. Special Kneads and Treats believe every child should have a birthday cake on their special day.

Models to the Rescue and Center Point

September 9, 2016 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Models to the Rescue and Center Point

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Lynn Robinette, Shena Tarie, Marie Davis

Shena Tarie/Models to the Rescue

Models to the Rescue brings awareness to abandoned, neglected and abused pets who are having a hard time getting adopted in shelters or foster homes. Through ongoing fundraising efforts, they are able to provide shelters photo shoots with professional models and photographers. The photos of the animals are then shared across all social media outlets to give them the exposure they need to find forever homes. Models to the Rescue provides all services to rescue organizations at no charge.

Marie Davis/Center Point

Next year will be the 50^th anniversary for Center Point. This 501c3 entity was started by four Hall County Churches to provide time out religious education. Over time, Center Point was asked to provide counseling, drug and pregnancy prevention and mentoring in the city and county schools. Center Point also offers family and individual counseling at both locations.

Family Promise of Gwinnett County, Furkids, and Gwinnett Ballet Theatre

July 8, 2016 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Family Promise of Gwinnett County, Furkids, and Gwinnett Ballet Theatre

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Lynn Robinette, Chuck Ferraro, Samantha Shelton, Holley Calmes

Chuck Ferraro/Family Promise of Gwinnett County

Family Promise of Gwinnett is a faith based organization that serves children and their families experiencing homelessness in Gwinnett County. Their mission is to mobilize communities of congregations that partner with social service agencies to end homelessness, one family at a time.

Samantha Shelton/Furkids

Furkids is a 501c3 nonprofit charitable organization that operates the largest cage-free, no-kill shelter in the Southeast for rescued cats and a no-kill division for dogs. At these locations, animals experience the best care in a loving, safe environment until they are adopted into forever homes. The Furkids mission is to help end pet overpopulation in Georgia through sterilization, high-quality adoption and by providing valuable spay/neuter services and pet care education to people in the community. Furkids cares for more animals on a daily basis than any other local organization and has rescued and altered more than 20,000 animals since its founding in 2002. Approximately 1,100 animals are in the Furkids program today, located in the Furkids shelters, 13 PetSmart and Petco adoption centers, and 400 foster homes.

Holley Calmes/Gwinnett Ballet Theatre

Gwinnett Ballet Theatre was Gwinnett’s first performing arts non-profit, founded in 1977. It is one of only three totally non-profit dance organizations in the Atlanta metro area, with both the school and the company holding a 501C3 status. Their annual production of “The Nutcracker” will celebrate its 35th Anniversary this holiday season when it presents this family favorite classic December 2-18 at the Infinite Energy Theatre in Duluth. Over 12,000 individuals annually enjoy this well-loved ballet.

The Detour Program and Suwanee Business Alliance

May 13, 2016 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

The Detour Program and Suwanee Business Alliance

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David White/The Detour Program

The DETOUR Program is designed to assist adolescents as they attempt to navigate through middle school, high school, and all of the challenges that come with that process. It is a transition program with two distinct tracts: the “Alternate Route” is a diversion program, and “My Life” is a prevention program.

The Alternate Route program is a diversion program targeting juvenile offenders and those with behavioral health diagnosis between the ages of 13-17. This program is ten weeks in length and offers mental health treatment, creative, innovative group interventions, and family support systems. After the initial ten week “Alternate Route”, they also provide their 500-hour Reentry Prep which is specifically designed to prepare offenders to be productively involved in their communities and society. The goal of the program is to prevent incarceration and repeat offenses, improve academic performance, and address previously unidentified family stresses that contribute to the youth’s behavior. The “My life” series is another innovative tool used by the DETOUR program to address adolescents involved in risky behaviors such as drug and alcohol use, bullying, teen pregnancy, STDS, and delinquent behaviors – which are all “barriers to their success”. The “My Life” series is broken into three phases and each phase is four weeks in length using a small group format.

Pete Patel/Suwanee Business Alliance

Suwanee Business Alliance fosters the success of local business owners with a serious mind to grow while creating relationships for the future. Founded in 1999, the Suwanee Business Alliance was formed when a group of Suwanee-area businesses banded together to foster communications and commerce among its members, and to help the Suwanee community grow and prosper.

Angels Among Us Pet Rescue and Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

April 8, 2016 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Angels Among Us Pet Rescue and Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

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Lynn Robinette, Nikki, Bruno Taillefer, Megan Bowman, Randy Redner

Presented by Minuteman Press of Duluth, this new program is dedicated to promoting local charities and non-profit organizations. CLICK HERE to watch the video of this show.

Megan Bowman/Angels Among Us Pet Rescue

Angels Among Us Pet Rescue is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity dedicated to saving dogs and cats from high-kill shelters in north Georgia. They operate through a network of volunteers and foster homes in the metro Atlanta area. Their efforts are funded by tax-deductible contributions from compassionate people and organizations who care and want to help make a difference, one pet at a time.

Their mission is two-fold. First, to educate the public on the plight of animals that have found themselves in high kill shelters throughout Georgia and on the responsibilities involved with pet ownership, such as spay/neuter and heart-worm prevention. Second, to save as many animals as they can from high-kill shelters and to see each animal through from the actual rescue to the loving foster home and ultimately to the “forever” home they were meant to have.

Randy Redner/Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

For more than three decades, the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia has worked in partnership with donors to donate close to $60 million to the charitable causes that matter most to the community.

Rather than giving haphazardly to every donation request, they help people learn where the real needs are and which non-profits are directly addressing those needs. Instead of giving in a rush at year-end for tax purposes, they offer tools that allow you to invest your resources now and give more purposefully when you’re ready. And if you want to leave a legacy that reaches far beyond your lifetime, they can help with that, too.

They make giving easy, with a powerful return on investment for the community. In short, they connect people who care with causes that matter.

Bruno Taillefer/Minuteman Press of Duluth

When it comes to business communications services, Minuteman Press of Duluth can do it all. With a complete range of products and services at your disposal, they can help you get your message out to customers, employees and vendors alike. Using the latest printing and document management technology, they handle your projects from start to finish. Their energetic and experienced staff is dedicated to delivering what you need, when you need it.

Minuteman Press of Duluth. They design, print and promote – You! They’re the one-stop shop for your business.

Lynn Robinette/Wishes 4 Me Foundation (and Show Host)

The Wishes 4 Me Foundation is a Georgia non-profit organization which provides a group style home for disabled adults. They currently have five homes in Lawrenceville, GA. Each home provides accessibility based on the needs of the residents which exceeds ADA code. The homes also include a positive family environment.

Lynn Robinette, a single mother and the founder of the organization, was inspired by her two disabled children when she was not successful in finding solutions for independent living for her precious loved ones. Lynn has accomplished a successful model of group style living of disabled adults who wish to be active in the community.

Nikki/Minuteman Press of Duluth

Nikki is the Official Mascot of Minuteman Press of Duluth. Nikki is a rescue pit bull mix.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Stephanie Christopolous with Organized Chick, Bruno Taillefer with Minuteman Press of Duluth and Nick Masino with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

January 22, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Stephanie Christopolous with Organized Chick, Bruno Taillefer with Minuteman Press of Duluth and Nick Masino with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

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Bruno Taillefer, Stephanie Christopolous, Nick Masino, Johnny Phelps

Stephanie Christopolous/Organized Chick

Professional organizer Stephanie Christopoulos of Snellville, GA is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) as well as the GA-NAPO Chapter. She is the owner of Organized Chick, a professional organizing business that specializes in helping small business owners achieve balance in their lives and helping them save time and money.

Organized Chick believes in doing more than organizing a room and sorting things into a bin. They believe in helping you reclaim your life when you’re feeling overwhelmed by the current state of your life, your space, or a certain project or task. Organized Chick will help you reclaim that space, energy and enthusiasm. Whether your needs are big or small, Organized Chick can help you get organized and stay organized. Their services include Small Business Organizing, Residential Organizing, Home Office Organizing, and Relocation services.

Bruno Taillefer/Minuteman Press of Duluth

Minuteman Press of Duluth. They design, print and promote… You. They’re the one-stop shop for your business.

Nick Masino/Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Gwinnett Chamber is to strengthen existing businesses, facilitate the growth of quality job opportunities, and enrich the community’s quality of life. The Gwinnett Chamber serves over 2,000 members throughout metro Atlanta by delivering pertinent and useful programs that strengthen and connect businesses locally, regionally, and globally. The Gwinnett Chamber uses its strategic marketing and communications capabilities to support its members, promote its programs, and enhance economic development efforts.