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2020 HALL COUNTY NON-PROFIT GUIDE

To view a listing of Nonprofit Agencies serving Hall County please visit us at www.gainesvilletimes.com/friends-times

Mountain Education CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

The first choice for a second chance to build a better future through education AdvancED Accredited • Self-Paced Curriculum Flexible Attendance • Free Tutoring Available 16 sites across North East Georgia...

Visit us at https://www.halldawsoncasa.org/

Hall-Dawson CASA Program 603 Washington St SW, Gainesville, GA 30501

(770) 531-1964

Bartow ~ Bowman ~ Dawson ~ Fannin ~ Forsyth ~ Gilmer Habersham ~ Hall ~ Hill Center ~ Lumpkin ~ Murray Pickens ~ Rabun ~ Stephens ~ Union ~ White

• Tuition Free for Full Time Students • Operates Monday –Thursday • Evening High School (4:30pm – 9:00pm) • Mentoring Services Available Hall County Site located at 2723 Tumbling Creek Rd. • Gainesville, GA 30504 Hall Site Administrators: Kim Davis & Eddie Suggs

770-531-2330 • mymec.org

HOPE STARTS HERE

The Gainesville-Hall County Alliance for Literacy BUILDING AN EDUCATED WORKFORCE EQUALS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The Gainesville/Hall County Alliance for Literacy was formed in 1989 and serves as the umbrella agency for all literacy concerns in our community.

The Alliance partners with Lanier Technical College’s Adult Education Center to garner community support. The Alliance provides funds for instruction, materials/curriculum, and GED and continuing education scholarships.

The Center provides free educational programs for adults 16 years and up an Educated Workforce in Hall County who have not graduated from high school orBuilding whose native language is not 2017 Impact Report: The Gainesville/Hall County Alliance for Literacy English.

Almost 55,000 people and 5,523 GED’s have been attained.

The Gainesville/Hall County Alliance for Literacy was formed in 1989 and The Alliance’s annual Spelling Bee and collaborative Dancing for a cause serves as the umbrella agency for all literacy concerns in our community.

Quick Look: raise funds and awareness of literacy concerns in our community.

The Alliance partners with Lanier Technical College’s Adult Education CenHall County

ter to garner community support. The Alliance provides funds for instruction, materials/curriculum, and GED and continuing education scholarships.

The Center provides free educational programs for adults 16 years and up who have not graduated from high school or whose native language is not English.

Child Centered. Family Focused. Community Based.

Quick Look: Hall County Population: Adults 18+ 137,426 Adult Education Students Served

750 Adult Education students enrolled in 2019 and 81 GED credentials were attained.

Jobs in Georgia By 2024, 90% of the fastest growing jobs in Georgia will require at least a high school diploma or equivalent (such as the GED credential).

137,426 Educational Attainment: Adults 18+ Bachelors degree and up

20% 29%

Some college

22%

Less than a high school diploma

29%

High school diploma

Since the Alliance joined the CLCP* Since the Alliance’s establishment in 1994, program in 1994, the percentage of the percentage withoutdiploma a high adults withoutof a adults high school school diploma has decreased from has decreased from

35% to 22% Adult Education Students Served

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2011–2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Georgia Department of Labor; The Gainesville/Hall County Alliance for Literacy Annual Report, 2017.

458 Adult Education students enrolled in 2017

The Gainesville/Hall County Alliance for Literacy (770) 531-3358 | all4lit@bellsouth.net | www.allianceforliteracy.org 458 + 734 2535 Lanier Tech Drive, Riley Hall Room 3105 Gainesville, GA 30507 * A member of the Certified Literate Community Program

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Eagle Ranch is one of the Southeast’s largest residential children’s programs. Children are provided a Christ-centered home, education 2017 Funding: in an 18-24 month program that involves the entire and counseling Local Money at Work family, with the goal of the child returning home. Eagle Ranch serves up to 42 boys and 24 girls, giving the structure, stability and time Fundraising: $44,413 needed to work through a crisis situation.

Funding Raised Grants: $14,700

Funding Sources

Population: Adults 18+

Contributions: $2,701

for FY 2017:

Located in Flowery Branch, Georgia, Other: 5,923 $74,387Eagle Ranch helps children In-Kindin Value: $6,650 and families more than 40 counties in North Georgia and Metro Atlanta. Additionally, Eagle Ranch has a variety of outreach efforts and designedTotal tofunding educate and support families, therapeutic professionals, 5-year in-kind value raised $371,270 organizations across the United children’2013–2017: s programs and non-profit Impact States and worldwide.

2017 Scholarships:

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After School

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Summer Camp

Summer Camp

Sports Leagues

Sports Leagues

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770-225-0804 www.namihall.org

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FEEDING

HOPE together

We cannot leave children waiting and worrying about where they will get their next meal.

More than 70 feeding partners in north Georgia count on Georgia Mountain Food Bank to stock the shelves of their food pantries. Thousands are served through this network every month. Find out how you can help at gamountainfoodbank.org or call 770-534-4111.

Serving Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Lumpkin & Union counties since 2008