Town Hall Meeting October 23rd, 6:30 p.m. The Georgia Rural Development Council, in partnership with the University of Georgia's Fanning Institute and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, is holding a town hall meeting Monday, October 23, at the Community Service Building in Warrenton. The meeting will be held from 6:30-8:30pm. The purpose of this town hall meeting is to introduce the new Communities of Opportunity Initiative to citizens and community leaders. Communities of Opportunity is a new initiative geared at enhancing the capacity of rural communities to be more successful. More successful in the sense that communities have the resources and tools necessary for families and businesses to prosper. You will hear all about how the Rural Development Council is partnering with communities and other agencies and organizations to create Communities of Opportunity in rural Georgia. We need your help in making this initiative successful. Public input is greatly needed to gain the necessary perspective from the local level. Please make every effort to attend this important town hall meeting, and to recruit your fellow citizens to attend as well. To assist with recruiting others to attend, attached is a flyer for dissemination in the community. Please feel free to photocopy this flyer and distribute where you feel best. For more information, please contact Matt Bishop with the University of Georgia.s Fanning Institute at (706) 542-6201, mlbishop@uga.edu, or Tina Hutcheson with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs at (478) 469-3751, thutches@dca.state.ga.us. We look forward to seeing you on October 23. Matthew L. Bishop
Fanning Institute
Initiative on Poverty and the Economy
The University of Georgia
Fanning Building
1240 South Lumpkin Street
Athens, GA 30602 (706) 542-6201 Office
(706) 542-7007 Fax
mlbishop@uga.edu
www.fanning.uga.edu
www.poverty.uga.edu | 
