Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer Betty Davis loads a shopping cart with groceries. In its new space, the Coop has much more room to operate, making its food pantry and other operations more efficient. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
In its new space, the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry has more room to operate. The Co-op offers food services, along with interview and other services. The ministry now shares a roof with three other ministries. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
A Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer, who goes by “Ed,” loads groceries into a client’s car. The Co-op offers food services, along with interview and other services and now shares a roof with three other ministries. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
A client of the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry fills out paperwork in a one-on-one consult with a vulunteer. The Co-op offers food services, along with interview and other services and now shares a roof with three other ministries. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
At left, Christine Freidenstein, a Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer, bags groceries for a client. The co-op has a food pantry for clients, which is now more efficient due to the co-op’s new building. Below, Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer Betty Davis loads a shopping cart with groceries. Bottom, in its new space, the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry has more room to operate. The co-op offers food services, along with interview and other services.
Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer David Kelly pushes a client’s cart of groceries outside. The Co-op has car-loaders, or volunteers who load the groceries into client’s carts. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
With the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry’s new building, the food panty is much bigger. Here, volunteers stock shelves and load carts with clients’ groceries. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
Christine Freidenstein, a Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer, looks over a list of of a clients’ groceries before she pushes the cart to another volunteer, who will then take it to be loaded into the client’s car. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
Four nonprofits — Navigate Recovery, Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry, Mending the Gap and Habitat for Humanity — inhabit 52 Gwinnett Drive in Lawrenceville. The idea of having four community aid organizations under one roof is a new one to Gwinnett, with the partnerships marking the first of their kind in the county. (Staff Photos: Isabel Hughes)
Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer Betty Davis loads a shopping cart with groceries. In its new space, the Coop has much more room to operate, making its food pantry and other operations more efficient. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
In its new space, the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry has more room to operate. The Co-op offers food services, along with interview and other services. The ministry now shares a roof with three other ministries. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
A Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer, who goes by “Ed,” loads groceries into a client’s car. The Co-op offers food services, along with interview and other services and now shares a roof with three other ministries. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
A client of the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry fills out paperwork in a one-on-one consult with a vulunteer. The Co-op offers food services, along with interview and other services and now shares a roof with three other ministries. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
At left, Christine Freidenstein, a Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer, bags groceries for a client. The co-op has a food pantry for clients, which is now more efficient due to the co-op’s new building. Below, Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer Betty Davis loads a shopping cart with groceries. Bottom, in its new space, the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry has more room to operate. The co-op offers food services, along with interview and other services.
Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer David Kelly pushes a client’s cart of groceries outside. The Co-op has car-loaders, or volunteers who load the groceries into client’s carts. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
With the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry’s new building, the food panty is much bigger. Here, volunteers stock shelves and load carts with clients’ groceries. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
Christine Freidenstein, a Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry volunteer, looks over a list of of a clients’ groceries before she pushes the cart to another volunteer, who will then take it to be loaded into the client’s car. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
The Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry now calls 52 Gwinnett Drive home. It shares a roof with three other ministries. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)
Four nonprofits — Navigate Recovery, Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry, Mending the Gap and Habitat for Humanity — inhabit 52 Gwinnett Drive in Lawrenceville. The idea of having four community aid organizations under one roof is a new one to Gwinnett, with the partnerships marking the first of their kind in the county. (Staff Photos: Isabel Hughes)
Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry Executive Director Tom Balog knew, even before the city of Lawrenceville approached him in 2016 asking to buy the co-op’s Church Street building, that the organization needed to expand.
“Right off the bat (when I took over), we were in ‘let’s find a building’ mode,” Balog said. “Key factors we wanted to take into account were size of the building — where we were at, we had kind of a crawlspace basement where we could store things, but it was about 5,000 square feet and we used every inch of that — and parking was a big thing we were looking at.”
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