Category: Celebrate Clarkston
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Table Sign Up
Residents working on various projects and issues around the community are encouraged to sign up for a table at our June 13th event.
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Community Academy
Community Academy teaches principles of community development while highlighting local projects “That’s what I love about Clarkston. If you want to be included, you can. It’s all here.” – Ruth Staples, Community Academy Participant May 13-17, CDF hosted the Community Academy, a week-long training course designed to provide community leaders with a toolbox of skills…
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Students give back to their school
There is a group of elementary school students who do not mind getting their hands dirty. They are members of the Green Team at Indian Creek Elementary School. Each Monday, this group of 25-30 students gather to rid the school grounds of litter. They divide into teams to collect recycling, change trash can liners, and…
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Place: What makes one special and another not so much?
One of my co-workers is from Missouri. Just ask him. He will tell you ALL about it.
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Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Month in Clarkston
5 easy ways to get involved with Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Month in Clarkston
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84 people make 5k walk through Clarkston to support Atlanta Area School for the Deaf
The route of the 5k walk crossed back and forth through the center of Clarkston, passing businesses and landmarks such as the Clarkston Community Center, Thriftown, Georgia Piedmont Technical College and Clarkston City Hall. As they walked the participants smiled and laughed. They were fundraising for a good cause. Community members gathered on Saturday, April…
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Portrait of a Business Owner: Naima Abdullahi
“We are all able to do these things on a small scale by ourselves. But when we get together, we become that much more powerful,”
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Portrait of a Business Owner: Deepak Gajmer
As part of the VilCap-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. Himalaya Production LLC Deepak Gajmer was born in Bhutan, but grew up…
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Three VilCap Start Loan Recipients Announced
At the final meeting of the inaugural VilCap Start Business Accelerator program on Friday, April 19, Clarkston area entrepreneurs gathered to celebrate. Together they have experienced fourteen weeks of professional development and business training classes.