People of Hope Cooperative, Inc.
Formed by families displaced when the Garden Springs Mobile
Home Park in Athens, Georgia closed in 2002, PoH is working
to build the first occupant-controlled mobile home communty
in the state. GCLF serves as the fiscal agent for federal
CDBG and HOME funds, and is helping raise money to cover
purchase and infrastructure costs at the New Garden Springs
Community.
Athens Land Trust, Inc.
ALT is a community land trust which does both land preservation
and affordable housing. GCLF has provided some assistance
for strategic planning and hopes to provide capital so that
ALT can increase the number of houses and the amount of
land that it is able to hold in trust for its community.
ALT was co-founded by GCLF Board member Skipper StipeMaas.
Ms. StipeMaas also acted as ALT legal counsel from 1994
until the summer of 2003.
Moore's Ford Memorial Committee Affordable Housing Group
MFMC was formed to recognize and honor the lynching victims
who were killed in Oconee and Walton Counties in 1946. The
Committee is committed to social justice through creating
public discussion of history, its impact on the present,
and, most recently, the issue of affordable housing in its
community. GCLF organized and led an "Affordable Housing
101" workshop and introduction to strategic planning
for MFMC so that they could formulate a plan for gaining
community input to create much needed affordable housing
in the area.
Newtown Florist Club, Inc.
Newtown is an African-American Environmental Justice organization
made up of citizens whose homes were built on a landfill
in the 1930's after they were displaced from prime real
estate by the city of Gainesville, Georgia. In the years
since, zoning laws allowed and encouraged polluting factories
to surround the Newtown community. Many community members
have died from cancer and/or suffer with illness as a result
of the pollution. Newtown is developing a new community
for themselves away from the environmental toxins. Continuing
GCLF Board member Skipper StipeMaas's work, GCLF would like
to help Newtown as it fights for environmental and social
justice by supporting their acquisition of land and houses
with their newly formed land trust.
Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society, Inc.
SICARS is a community land trust comprised of residents
of the last intact Gullah/Geechee community located on an
island off Georgia's coast, accessible only by ferry. This
group has received legal and community economic development
support from GCLF Board member Skipper StipeMaas, and GCLF
wishes to support SICARS's plans for increased land ownership,
tourism and cultural preservation, and construction of income-generating
projects for the community.
McIntosh Sustainable Economic and Environmental Development, Inc.
McIntosh SEED, a community organization in coastal Georgia that supports local sustainable agriculture, linking local growers with local consumers, including a marketing effort getting fresh produce to WIC voucher holders. Their goal is to have fresh local food
available and affordable for everyone in McIntosh County. GCLF is working with McIntosh SEED to support the construction of a marketing shed.
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