Cherokee Focus Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

May 13, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$379,136

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Cherokee focus collaborative:cherokee focus is an umbrella organization focused on collaboration and capacity building for the community. The strength of this collaborative partnership resides in cooperation between organizations, agencies, civic clubs, the faith based community, law enforcement, education, families and individuals. Cherokee focus encourages and models interagency, communication, partnership and resource sharing; thereby creating a more efficient system of services delivery. Cherokee focus provides the opportunity for leveraging resources, skills, expertise and funding to create, develop and sustain programs and initiatives that will support the families and children of cherokee county through a means that could not be accomplished by one agency or individual alone. Cherokee focus initiatives include: drug free cherokee, cherokee youth connection, volunteer cherokee, cherokee youth challenge, live healthy cherokee and the cherokee early childhood coalition.

Activity 3

Bridges out of povertyover 150 collaborative members, school counselors and faith community members came together for the bridges out of poverty two day event. Based on the book of the same name and facilitated by the co-author, terie drussi smith, members of the community were able to increase their awareness of the differences in economic cultures and how those differences affect opportunities for success. At the time of the event, statistics indicated for the prior year that 1.83 million georgians were living at the poverty level which was 60,000 more than the year before and 832,958 georgia households were drawing food stamps putting georgia at the third-highest poverty rate among the states.

Filer

EIN

45-0466319