Nonprofit fair seeks to inform community of local area opportunities

Several nonprofit organizations in Graham provide services and opportunities for those in the community and making the community aware of those services and how to utilize them is the goal of the Graham Non-Profit Community Fair Saturday.

The event will be hosted by Affirming Texas Families Services and the Graham Crisis Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 15, in the Graham Food Pantry parking lot at 601 Indiana St. in Graham. Courtney Shifflett with ATFS said the event was a way to make the community more aware of the opportunities available to them here locally.

“We wanted to have an event where all of the resources from your nonprofits, to your civic clubs, to your things like WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), anything that can help people out, we wanted kind of a big event for people to kind of know what’s here because so many people don’t even realize what’s available in Graham,” Shifflett said. “And that (event) also gives the opportunity if they want to get involved. If they want to volunteer in any of these groups, join some of these civic clubs, then they can kind of be made aware of how to do that too.”

For the rest of the story, see the May 12 edition of The Graham Leader.