Cobb not-for-profit CARES Act funding Archives

Good Mews 30th birthday — *The Good Mews Animal Foundation of East Cobb is among the CARES Act not-for-profit recipients.*

The Cobb Board of Commissioners has approved federal CARES Act funding totaling $842,500 for 68 non-for-profit organizations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The organizations were recommended by SelectCobb, the economic development arm of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, and will receive grant funding for personnel and operational expenses.

They include community service organizations, animal welfare groups, special-education schools and arts entities.

The cash grants range from $2,500 to $25,000, and will go organizations that are locally-operated. They include the following:

$25,000

MUST Ministries
Nobis Works

$20,000

MDE School of East Cobb
liveSAFE Resources Inc.

$15,000

The Georgia Ballet Inc.
The Center for Family Resources
The Extension
Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta
Good Mews Animal Foundation
Friends of the Strand
Davis Direction Foundation

$10,000

Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art
Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue & Adoption
Food Security of America
Curing Kids Cancer Inc.

$2,500

Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society
Family Promise Cobb County
Marietta Police Athletic League

The full list of recipients can be found here. In July commissioners approved $2 million for the not-for-profits; all CARES Act funding must be designated and distributed by Dec. 31.

Commissioners also voted last week to allocate an additional $57,864 in emergency food funding from the CARES Act to 25 Cobb organizations, including MUST, the Noonday Baptist Association and the YMCA of Metro Atlanta.

Each organization will receive $2,314 and the full list can be found here.