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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]