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CHILDREN & YOUTH
If you think it’s tough raising one or two girls, try raising 1,600.
OK, so Girls Inc. doesn’t actually parent hundreds of girls across the Chattahoochee Valley region. But last year they provided after-school activities and mentoring for 1,600 girls — more than half of whom, according to Girls Inc. Executive Director Dorothy Hyatt, come from low-income homes with single mothers. And the list of activities is exhaustive: a comprehensive sports program, computer training, economic literacy courses “where they learn the value of a dollar,” a summer theatre group, even a Lego robotics team that competes annually at Columbus State University. In addition, Girls Inc. has a scholarship fund that helps send girls to universities and vocational schools. The overall goal: to help area girls be “strong, smart and bold.”
With that in mind, it was easy for Nora Garrard and her husband Gardiner to support Girls Inc. “I’ve known it’s a good organization for a long time, so
Growing Great Girls
it’s not something that we had to study,” Garrard says. “Both my family and my husband’s family have supported Girls Inc. for a long time in various ways. I’ve always felt that it is an organization that provides very worthy, beneficial programs to the girls that it tends, and it’s created numerous success stories.”
Administered by the Community Foundation, the Lenora J. and Gardiner W. Garrard Fund made two grants to Girls Inc. during the year — a general donation and a gift to the “Go Green” project, a family activity day on the CSU Commons in downtown Columbus.
Garrard says her family has been moving its charitable donations to the Community Foundation to ensure their longevity and make Girls Inc. something her children and grandchildren can continue to support. “Our intent is to keep a fund going and continue to make charitable donations,” she says. “With the help of the Community Foundation, hopefully our funds can grow a little, and we’ll keep on giving.”
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Among the $466,719 grants for Child & Youth Development were the Child Development Center at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Ft. Mitchell, Alabama; the Methodist Home for Children and Youth for Carpenter’s Way Ranch and Our House; the Juvenile Drug Court of Muscogee County; and the Friends of Foster Care Fund at the CFCV.
Above, Nora Garrard shares a visit to Girls Inc. with her namesake granddaughter, Nora Garrard.
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