MISSION:

The purpose of this Club shall be to welcome newcomers and to be of service to the community.

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Community Service

To sign up for a community service event, email
signup4service@gainesvillenewcomersclub.com.

Our ongoing community service projects include Meals on Wheels, GateWay House, Good News Clinics, and Hospice Brave Heart Camp.

Donations are collected at each luncheon for Meals on Wheels. Various items are collected at each luncheon for Gateway House. See the following for additional information on our outreach projects:

2009-2010 COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROJECTS:

The Community Service Committee is planning another year of outreach. Donated warm, wearable, clothing will be taken to Good News at Noon and My Sister’s Place. These shelters are in need of coats, jackets, sweaters, and shirts for their clients. Help these agencies by checking your homes for wearable clothing which may be recycled for other women, men and children to wear.

ONGOING PROJECTS

Relay for Life-American Cancer Society
Registration will open soon. For more information, go to www.hallrelay.com.
Please call Marie Savino for information about joining GNC's Relay team.

Habitat for Humanity Women's Build-2009-2010
Newcomers' provides lunches for the Habitat Women Build Group upon request. Check this Website or the Newsletter for updates.

Warm Up America
We knit or crochet afgans for the American Red Cross for disaster victums and baby items for Newborns in Need. We use an enormus amount of yarn to make these items we create. If anyone has yarn to donate to this worthy cause please contact Amy Schick.

Gateway House
Please check the Newsletter monthly for items needed at Gateway House, a center for battered women. At our monthy luncheons a green basket will be at the check-in table to collect items for Gateway House.

OCTOBER-2009

Clothing Drive for My Sister's Place and Good News at Noon
Please bring used clothing to the October 28th luncheon. There will be a vehicle parked in front of the main entrance to the country club for drop off.

NOVEMBER-2009

Food drive for Salvation Army-see October Newsletter for details.
Sign up for sorting and distribution of food at the Salvation Army in December.

DECEMBER-2009

Salvation Army food sorting.
Wednesday, December 2 1-3PM
Friday, December 4 9:30-Noon
See November Newsletter for details.

Bring canned goods and non-perishable food items to the December 16th luncheon.

JANUARY-2010

Sign up to donate food or to help serve at the Senior Citizen Valentine's Day Luncheon. Please contact Mary Jane McDevitt with the Community Service link above.

FEBRUARY-2010

Senior Citizen Valentine's Day Luncheon is February 11.

MARCH-2010

Sign up to donate food for the Senior Citizen May Spring Picnic.

MAY-2010

Senior Citizen's Spring Picnic.



COMMUNITY OUTREACH - GNC Charitable Donations
2007-2008 Recipients

GOOD NEWS CLINICS
Cheryl Christian, Executive Director

Good News Clinics came into existence as an outgrowth of Good News at Noon. Initially, Good News at Noon recognized medical needs among those whom they served, and a small number of medical personnel brought medical services to them. In 1992, Good News Clinics established its own facility, and just two years ago purchased the building they currently occupy, increasing their space from about 2000 to 9000 square feet to provide broader services to the needy in Hall County.

Good News Clinics provides ongoing patient services – general and specialty medical, pharmaceutical, and dental – to people on the basis of need, after an application is completed and an interview conducted to determine there are no other resources available. If people qualify for Medicare/Medicaid, have other insurance, or are able to pay, they don’t qualify for services at Good News Clinics.

Good News Clinics has paid staff of ten people, 34 volunteer doctors, 43 dentists, and 111 community volunteers. Their primary source of funding derives from foundation grants, churches, United Way, and individual donors. (Of their $1,308,396 income in 2006, United Way provided $39,000 or 2.9% of their total income.) In 2006, they instituted an annual fundraising dinner. To purchase their current building, they raised $600,000, and they have a pledge that will pay the balance of the building.

Some of the possibilities for how a donation would be spent are as follows:

$30 pays for supplies and overhead of a patient visit

Digital scales at a cost of $850 to $1000

New/used copier at a cost of $400 to $500

Red Rabbit transportation vouchers

HOSPICE BRAVE HEART CAMP HELPS GRIEVING KIDS TO RECOVER

Established in 1995, Camp Brave Heart is a summer/fall day camp for bereaved children and teens. It is sponsored by Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center. This organization offers a free three-day session for elementary and middle school age children and weekend sessions for high school students. The camp offers a safe place where children and teens can express their grief. Younger children participate in structured art projects, nature walks, and other activities, all designed with a therapeutic purpose. Teens make and write in their own journals and engage in adventure-based, team building exercises. The purpose is to assist teens in acquiring life skills that will help them cope with other losses, not just death. The camp has been established to help kids cope with the death of a loved one. It is not just for families in the hospice program. Hospice takes referrals from school counselors, churches and other agencies in the surrounding 13 northeast Georgia counties.

For more information regarding this program or how you can assist this program contact Teresa Warren, director of Hospice services at 770-533-8888 or teresa,warren@nghs.com.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc., 2150 Limestone Pkwy, Suite 222, Gainesville, Ga. 30501