It Takes A Village

 

In 1950, African American women living in the Newtown community established the Newtown Florist Club as a social club for women to gather to share family ties and to build a stronger village. NFC women also worked to provide support and limited financial assistance to neighborhood families during times of bereavement. Because housing conditions in our community in the 1960's were deplorable, the Club's work evolved into multi-issue organizing advocating for the entire community.

 

 

Our mission is to promote youth development and to organize for social, environmental and economic justice in Gainesville and Hall County.

Our focus on youth development helps to promote ongoing leadership growth and skills development for future generations.

Throughout the course of our more than seventy years we have found that unjust policies greatly affect how people of color and the poor eat, work, breath, live and die. We address inequality, oppression and discrimination by serving as the central location for people to access resources, information, organize support and network with other organizations working on various social justice issues.