Five nonprofits in Hall County are getting a share of the $137,000 in grants recently approved by the Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (JEMC) Foundation.
Those groups and the amount of each grant are Adventure Bags, Inc. ($15,000); the Georgia Mountain Food Bank ($15,000); Hall-Dawson CASA Program, Inc. ($15,000); the South Hall Community Food Pantry ($10,000); and Cornerstone Assembly of God (previously Spirit of Joy Food Bank) ($2,500).
Read more about each of these groups and the work they do and see a full list of all the recent grant recipients:
*$20,000 to the Cancer Foundation, Athens, for its Financial
Assistance Program that assists eligible cancer patients in
Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Franklin, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison and
Oglethorpe counties with rent and mortgage assistance.
*$15,000 to Adventure Bags, Inc., Winder, for its One Bag
at a Time Program, to create comfort bags and distribute
to displaced children through local DFCS offices, domestic
violence shelters, fire departments, group homes and children’s
shelters in Barrow, Banks, Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall and Jackson
counties.
*$15,000 to Family Promise of Athens, Inc., a community
effort to end the cycle of family homelessness, for its Homeless
Shelter and Stabilization Program to provide emergency
shelter and vital services for families with children experiencing
homelessness in Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison and
Oglethorpe counties.
*$15,000 to Family Promise of Gwinnett, Inc., which provides
shelter, meals and support services to families without homes in
Gwinnett County through a network of local congregations for
its Promise Haven Shelter Program.
*$15,000 to the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia, Athens,
for its Food Access Initiative Program, which serves residents
in Clarke, Banks, Barrow, Franklin, Jackson, Madison and
Oglethorpe counties.
*$15,000 to the Georgia Mountain Food Bank, Inc., Gainesville,
to purchase fresh produce boxes for residents in Hall and
Lumpkin counties.
*$12,000 to Neighborhood Meals on Wheels, Inc., Norcross,
for a walk-in refrigerator and freezer to store food that will be
served to senior adults in Gwinnett County.
*$10,000 to the Hall-Dawson CASA Program, Inc., Gainesville,
which provides trained and supervised volunteers to advocate
for abused and neglected children requiring court intervention
for its volunteer training and technology upgrades.
*$10,000 to the South Hall Community Food Pantry, Oakwood,
to purchase food for its food pantry program.
*$7,500 to Athens-Oconee CASA, a nonprofit volunteer
organization that provides advocacy for approximately 300
children in foster care in Clarke and Oconee counties for its
volunteer training program.
*$2,500 to Cornerstone Assembly of God (previously Spirit
of Joy Food Bank), Oakwood, for its food pantry program to
purchase a commercial refrigerator.