Opening Gates at the NRC

From the Neighborhood Resource Center: The NRC was founded with three basic goals in mind: to help neighbors build relationships, access resources and develop skills. Three gates, three paths to individual, family, and community improvement. Four years later: young and old, city and county, staff and volunteers, people who frequent the Neighborhood Resource Center are opening gates. Relationship […]

August 27, 2009; 7:09 AM • by vmallonee

From the Neighborhood Resource Center:

The NRC was founded with three basic goals in mind: to help neighbors build relationships, access resources and develop skills. Three gates, three paths to individual, family, and community improvement.

Four years later: young and old, city and county, staff and volunteers, people who frequent the Neighborhood Resource Center are opening gates.

Relationship Gates

Preschool parents mobilize to save funding for their preschool.
Rocketts Landing residents teach photography, build café tables, and draft PR materials for the center.
Three NRC staffers move to Fulton Hill.
After the kids go home, recording studio volunteers help each other further their own musical projects.
Central Montessori School offers scholarships to NRC Preschool graduates.

Resource Gates
Dozens of unemployed neighbors use the center’s computer lab, phone, fax, and copy machine as they search for jobs in this tough economy.

A Fulton artist builds an epic gate for the NRC’s organic learning garden.
Kids make pesto and spaghetti squash in the center’s new kitchen–they might like cooking as much as they love eating!
63 adults register to vote at the center.

Skill Gates

11 adults earn their GED.
6 job seekers find employment in the last six-months.
Dozens of children improve their grades with the help of dedicated tutors.
5 five-year-olds graduate from the NRC’s Montessori Preschool. They can all read, some can multiply and one can do division. We tried to hire her!

With your your support, the Neighborhood Resource Center has become a true center for human development in Greater Fulton Hill. Children are gaining confidence and skills, parents are taking classes and finding jobs, residents and staff are sharing knowledge, love and respect.

Open a gate for a wide-eyed three-year old, a quiet teen, or a working parent who shows up for night school…make a tax-deductible donation to the Neighborhood Resource Center today!