Recent Happenings:

America By The Numbers!

Thanks, everybody, for coming out on Monday Sept. 17th!  We all saw the preview screening of the new documentary "America By The Numbers with Maria Hinojosa: Clarkston Georgia" at the Clarkston Community Center. The film was great, and hearing Maria and residents involved with the film talk about it afterward was so exciting!  It was a great experience!

Didn't make the event?  Don't miss the movie (below)!

Resale's Night Out was Chic!

RRISA staff, including Executive Director Paedia Mixon, strutted their stuff at Finder's Keepers Consignments on September 6th!  Thanks to everyone who attended and had fun with us!

Thanks for a Great Time!

RRISA was at the Yelp Helps! Launch Party on August 28th, and we got a great response!  Thanks to everyone who brought socks and underwear: together, you gave us 257 pairs of socks, 71 pairs of underwear, and 4 undershirts!  Stay tuned for your pictures with the King to be posted on snapfish!

World Refugee Day Events

June 19th 7-9 PM, at the Phillip Rush Center
 

RRISA and The Atlanta PRIDE Committee celebrated and brought more awareness to the issues facing refugees and the LGBT refugee community, an emerging population in the metro Atlanta area. There was a documentary screening of Welcome to Shelbyville, a testimonial from EH, food, drink, and a performance by MBondAfrika.
This program was sponsored by the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights.
 

June 20th

The Clarkston Community Center hosted a "Journey to Citizenship" lunchtime gala featuring outdoor activities, traditional ethnic foods, and performances by different refugee groups.

The Final Scores!

In the first week of May, the Annual Charity Boogaloo through the EDSBS sports blog raised over $18,000! Thank you to the fans for their generosity and team spirit! And thank you, Spencer, for hosting this wonderful event! And the winners for this year are ...

  University of Michigan: $6,316
  University of Georgia: $1,318
  Oklahoma State University: $1,158
  University of Notre Dame: $1,128
  Georgia Tech: $1,081