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Planned Pethood of Georgia and Camp Dream

February 13, 2020 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

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

Giving Back To Gwinnett

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

Giving Back To Gwinnett

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

Giving Back To Gwinnett

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.