Please join us! General Membership meeting February 29, 12 noon at MUST Ministries, 1407 Cobb Parkway, Marietta, GA 30062.

Our speaker will be Dr. Ike Reighard, Senior Pastor for Piedmont Church and CEO of MUST Ministries. We are happy to have him kick-off our first General Membership Meeting for 2012. He will speak about motivation, leadership, and collaboration.

Please bring your own lunch.  Drinks will be provided.
Please call Ruth Radhuber, Resource Manager if you have any questions at 770-514-7212 or Lee Freeman, Interim Executive Director at 770-514-7213

All nonprofit organizations with 501c3 designation and serving Cobb County residents are invited to attend a meeting on February 23 from 9am-12pm or February 27 from 1pm-4pm.

for a presentation on the availability of funds from Cobb County Non-Profit Grant for Fiscal Year 2013/2014.  An overview of the funding process including criteria for receiving a grant and instructions on completing the application will be given at this time.  Attendance at this meeting is optional but highly encouraged.  Applications will be available in electronic format on the Cobb Community Collaborative website after the scheduled RFP sessions:  http://www.cobbcollaborative.org

The meetings will be held at The Mansour Center, 995 Roswell St., Marietta, Ga. 30060. Members of the Cobb Community Collaborative and Cobb County Finance Department will be present to answer questions regarding the application and review process.

If you have any questions about this notice please contact:

Lee Freeman, Interim Executive Director at 770-514-7213 or email:  lfreeman@cobbcollaborative.org  or

Ruth Radhuber, Resource Manager at 770-514-7212 or email:  rradhuber@cobbcollaboarative.or

Cobb Alcohol Taskforce
Do you know any budding young videographers in Cobb County? Lights, Camera, Action!

Cobb Alcohol Taskforce and Cobb County School District’s Prevention Intervention Center are again co-sponsoring a Video PSA Competition for local students! Please help us spread the word – we want lots of great entries again this year!

Entry deadline is March 30, 2012 – contest rules and forms can be found on this flyer, which is also posted on our website hompage at www.cobbat.org

Thanks to Cobb County Commission on Children and Youth for making funds available for cash prizes! There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and viewers choice winners. This is a great way for youth organizations to raise funds while creatively sharing their voice and vision and helping us spread youth messages for preventing underage drinking.

Winning videos will be posted online and air on local TV stations during April for National Alcohol Awareness month. Winners will be regognized at public event in April, date TBA.

Please spread the word to get lots of youth to enter this contest! And check back to view and vote for your favorite entries during the week of April 1-13, 2012 – we will post a link so you can view and vote online then for your viewer’s choice.

Alisa Bennett-Hart
PR Specialist

Inter-Agency Collaboration Workshop presented by Cobb Community Collaborative

What is one of the top requirements listed in funding opportunities in 2011?
“Inter-Agency Collaboration”
Why-Because it reduces costs, utilizes partner’s greatest skills and produces maximum results

As one of the fastest growing areas in grant administration, this workshop will be a guided discussion about sub-awards starting the National Sub-award Model Agreement Form, reviewing roles and responsibilities, how to write the proposal, effectively monitor and closeout the grant. The workshop will identify areas of potential risk and review auditing guidance from recent audit findings.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Continental Breakfast & Registration 9:00am Workshop from 9:30 am to 11:30 am
The Mansour Center, 995 Roswell Street, Marietta, GA 30060
Presented by: Agencies Building Capacity Workshop Partner: Robert G. Bingham-Roy

Nomination deadline Oct. 17th!

Click an announcement for nomination packet

18^th Annual Jack Vaughan, Jr. Human Services Awards Luncheon

Thursday, November 3, 2011  12 noon at the Mansour Center

We are proud to welcome keynote speaker, Jack Hardin, co-chair of the Regional Commission on Homelessness and will also welcome back WSB’s own Condace Pressley as our emcee.

Please consider making a nomination for a volunteer or professional who serves the homeless or those at-risk of homelessness.

Please rsvp to Danielle Hancock ath 770-428-2601, ext. 224 or daniellehancock@thecfr.org

Kids Count 2011 Report Released

Annie E. Casey’s annual Kids Count 2011 was recently updated and released, continuing to track child well-being indicators nationally and in each state. Georgia has been stuck in 42nd place for the measures of child wellbeing. The following link shows that Georgia, while staying even relative to other states, fared more poorly with itself in most indicators. Georgia’s numbers for children in poverty (22%), living in single parent households (37%), and living in households where no parent has a full time or year round job (32%) does not bode well for the future of Georgia’s competiveness or to the future strength of its families.

Disturbingly, the teen death rate (73 per 100k), teen birth rate (5.2%), and low birth babies (9.6%) are much too high. The recession has taken a toll on Georgia’s families. In a time when government is cutting back in services to children and families, they are in need of more.

To see Cobb County data, go to http://www.gafcp.org/kidscount and follow data searches by count