Go Big and Go Home: The Fuller Center for Housing of Greater Atlanta’s Mission to Serve Local Families
Mark Murphy was retired. He was looking for ways to stay active and enjoy his free time. Then his hobby introduced him to a new calling. “I retired in 2016,…
“It Takes a Community to Stop the Violence in a Village”: The Mission of the Gwinnett County Family Violence Task Force
The Gwinnett County Family Violence Task Force advocates for victims to produce hope and nourish the “spirit of survivorship” in each victim. “We are advocates for hope so victims can…
Keeping Gwinnett Great, One Steward at a Time
Gwinnett is already great. And Schelly Marlatt and Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful (GCB) want to keep it that way! “I remember the old water towers that said ‘Gwinnett is great’…
Meet New CFNEG Fundholder, The Children’s Haven
Over 40 years ago, a judge in Seattle saw that everyone in the courtroom had an attorney or advocate in their corner — except some of the most vulnerable. The…
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: How Georgia Center for Opportunity is Fighting Family Instability
“For decades now in America, we’ve done a good job making poverty survivable. We’ve not done a good job of making it escapable.” When Randy Hicks first heard about a…
“A Blessing and a Respite”: How Joyce’s Place Met One Family in Their Darkest Days
It just seemed like a regular sinus infection. Until it wasn’t. Clayton Vaughan was a student at the University of Georgia, home for Christmas break. When he started experiencing migraines,…
More than music: How AMP creates opportunities for Atlanta youth
When seventh-grader Spencer Branch picked up a trombone for the first time, he unlocked his future. Six years later, the young man from South Atlanta was headed to Hampton University…
Planting Seeds of Advocacy: Peachtree Farms’ Mission to Promote Independence and Dignity Despite Disability
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a seed was planted in the Twiner family. 20 years before, the youngest Twiner child, Mary Quinn, was born. She was diagnosed with verbal apraxia, which…
From Crisis to Stability: How Home of Hope Supports Young Families
In Gwinnett County, homelessness among young mothers and their children is a crisis. But this crisis isn’t too big for our community to fight. At Home of Hope, families receive…