Category: Celebrate Clarkston
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Roberta Malavenda awarded Refugee Champion award by Refugee Family Services
CDF is proud to announce that Roberta Malavenda has been awarded the Refugee Champion award by Refugee Family Services. Roberta is a longtime advocate for improved early learning programs in Georgia. “Roberta Malavenda has been an unsurpassed champion for refugees and for early learning in the State of Georgia. There is no one we can…
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Portrait of a Business Owner: Samia Erol
As part of theVilCap-Start business accelerator, a collaboration with Social Enterprise @ Goizueta (at Emory University), Village Capital, Refugee Women’s Network, and the Clarkston Community Center, three business owners were selected by their peers to receive $10,000 loans for their business. CDF is sharing profiles of the winners. International Languages and Cultural Service Samia Erol’s son ruptured an eardrum just before…
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Sumaya Karimi awarded Outstanding Adjunct award by Rollins School of Public Health
CDF is proud to announce that Sumaya Karimi has been awarded the Outstanding Adjunct award by the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Her achievements will be recognized tonight at the annual Public Health in Action reception. Sumaya has organized and facilitated her Community Transformation Course in collaboration with Rollins School of Public Health for several years.…
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Forget Teaching to Fish. We Need Access to the Pond.
A wise man who had suffered greatly for sacrifices made during the civil rights movement once remarked “You’ve heard that ‘if you teach a person to fish you feed him for a lifetime.’ That’s a damned lie. You’ve got to give that person access to the pond if you want to feed him for a…
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VilCap Accelerator Enters Final Week
The VilCap Start Business Accelerator is entering its final week, and the business owners have developed their business plans, built new contacts, and worked to develop the structure for their businesses. Together, they are learning what it takes to establish and sustain a successful business, and to make a name for themselves here in Clarkston.…
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Reflections on the Clarkston Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program
As a CDF Board member, I am very proud of the role CDF played in launching and supporting the VilCap Start Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program in Clarkston.
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Community Transformation: 25 Takeaways
After 5 days of intense wrestling with social change, the methodologies of Paulo Freire, and group dynamics, picking one take away can be difficult. We knew that participants in the Community Transformation Course would be up for the challenge. They gathered on the last day of the course and shared two sentences describing what they would take…
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Clarkston Youth Share Their Voice through Global Dialogues
Global Dialogues seeks Clarkston area youths’ creative stories for prizes and a chance to be made into films An international storytelling contest called Global Dialogues is looking for young people in Clarkston to submit stories, poems, songs, videos, theatre pieces, comic strips and other forms of creative expression, and is offering cash prizes to the…
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Well Fed and Sustainable Community Report
As promised, we are sharing a summary report of the actions and commitments discussed at the January 24th Next Steps gathering to discuss the Playing and Connected Community in Clarkston. It is encouraging to see the desire of community members to be connected to one another. We enjoyed the playful moments and the work. We…
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MLK Jr. Day of Service brings together more than 600 in service throughout Clarkston
Service work, civil rights, collaboration and community were the words of the day at the MLK Jr. Day of Service on Monday, January 21st. Throughout Clarkston, more than 600 people from more than 20 organizations and faith groups converged to participate in service activities and improve conditions throughout the community. Of the 611 total people…