Local Contractors Critical to Neighbors Helping Neighbors Success
Neighbors Helping Neighbors fixed Putnam County resident Doris Jordan's well pump which had cut off her water supply.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors Awarded Community Foundation of Central Georgia Grant
Neighbors Helping Neighbors (NHN) has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Central Georgia in support of its Beds for Kidz program.
In the past two years, NHN has partnered with volunteers from the Greensboro First United Methodist Church Mission Team and provided funding to build and deliver beds to children in Putnam and Greene counties who would otherwise have no place of their own to sleep.
2022 YEAR IN REVIEW
What do a livable home, transportation, and beds all have in common? They are the three areas of focus that the 320+ members, volunteers, donors, and other contributors of Neighbors Helping Neighbors (NHN) supported during 2022 to help those in need in Greene and Putnam Counties. NHN is proud of the work and contributions from these groups and thankful for all of the community support. Without active members and additional volunteers and donors, NHN could not have accomplished as much as it did this past year.
CHILDREN SNUG IN THEIR BEDS IS GOAL FOR NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS
It was a week before Christmas and Frank Revson was sawing two-by-fours at a shed behind a church on Carey Station Road.
At the same time nine miles away, Rita Cheeley was all smiles and giving thanks at her apartment near downtown Greensboro.
“It’s a blessing,” she said.
NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS LAUNCHES GIVE TUESDAY CAMPAIGN
A 13-year-old girl with a feeding tube and a recent tracheotomy had to sleep on a thin pad on the floor of her home. Miles away, three young boys and their mother in a difficult situation found refuge in an empty house provided by social services. No furniture, no beds. These are scenes that can be found in too many Greene and Putnam County homes, where some 7,500 people live below the poverty line.
MEN OF LAKE OCONEE CHANGES NAME TO NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS AND WELCOMES IN WOMEN
At a recent July membership meeting held at Oconee Brewing Company, the two-year-old nonprofit organization Men of Lake Oconee announced it is changing its name. President Bob Massey told the 200-plus members and guests that the catalyst for the name change was the growing sense that the rapid success of the organization is, in large part, due to the support and contributions of women in the communities served.
MLO WELCOMES NEW DIRECTORS TO ITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES: HOWARD GOLDSTEIN & ROB MITCHELL
Men of Lake Oconee (MLO), a new lake area charitable organization is pleased to announce the appointment of two new directors to its board of trustees: Howard Goldstein and Rob Mitchell.
MLO is a local service organization born in the fall of 2020 and designed to serve those in need in Greene and Putnam Counties. Specifically, NHN helps those in need of a hand up—not a handout.
MEN OF LAKE OCONEE AND FAT TUESDAY
Fat Tuesday earlier this month at Oconee Brewing was one to remember! The occasion? The first meeting of the year for Men of Lake Oconee (MLO). And the location and the day weren’t the only things special about this meeting: it was also the first MLO meeting which had spouses/partners attending as well.