Noonday Association is a diverse network of churches across the greater Atlanta area. They recently opened an Agency Fund to help facilitate reaching their goal of collaboration to make a greater impact for good in their community.
The 163-year-old Association has been serving their community for a couple of decades now through their Storehouse Ministries, which primarily has served as a food bank hub supplying about 20 churches that directly meet the needs in their areas.
Beyond Storehouse, Noonday also equips their member churches for greater community impact through coaching, consulting, and community collaboration. A couple of years ago, before the pandemic, they gathered together leaders from churches, businesses, government, and non-profit worlds to see what could be done in collaboration to attack the issues confronting the area of greatest need in Cobb County. South Cobb United, as the group would be called, began to work together to improve the lives of the underserved in the South Cobb area.
Noonday first learned of the Cobb Community Foundation and its mission at these meetings. As they met with the late Howard Koepka and other team members from Noonday, CCF found that their goals were so closely aligned with Noonday’s that a partnership between them was a natural. As the pandemic began to severely impact the needs of the underserved in Cobb County, and especially South Cobb, CCF reached out to Koepka and Noonday to help bring Cobb’s nonprofit food providers together to create the Cobb Community Food Fleet. In collaboration with many partners, we were able to get many tons of food and help to the people who needed it most.
A natural next step for Noonday was to open an Agency Fund to take advantage of the strategic asset management available through CCF’s agency fund services. Because of the closely aligned values of Noonday and CCF, it just made sense to grow their resources together.
“We want our churches to be more involved in collaboration with the community. Having additional funds available through the CCF Agency Fund will help make this possible,” said Noonday Finance Director Autumn Sines. “Because we can rely on the CCF team to understand the needs in the community, we can confidently make decisions on where to focus our efforts. And we can count on CCF to handle contribution acknowledgments and accounting and to follow IRS guidelines.”
If you’d like to learn more about how an Agency Fund could be right for your organization, feel free to contact Cat Gankofskie at catherine@cobbfoundation.org or 770-859-2356.
