Common Focus Workshop

Pictured (L to R) are Sandy Hatcher, World Compassion Network; Dr. Bill Katip, Grace College president; Gladys Deloe, Common Focus Workshop event organizer and Stephanie Overbey, Kosciusko County Community Foundation associate director. A Common Focus workshop was held Thursday and today at Westminster Hall on the campus of Grace Schools. The event is being held for Kosciusko County non-profit agencies, organizations and churches with the goal of initiating a cooperative model that will improve the service and support of the citizens they serve. The hands-on workshop is being conducted by Jon West, senior manager of strategy and innovation for the Atlanta Community Food Bank and is based on the principles of Asset Based Community Development. Sponsors of the event are a Coalition of Kosciusko County Service Agencies and it is being underwritten by Grace College, the Great Warsaw Ministerial Association and Kosciusko County Community Foundation.’