UGA Campus Kitchen is a program run by the UGA Office of Service-Learning. The program harvests local produce and collections donations. Student staff and volunteers then make meals to be delivered ot food insecure residents in the Greater Athens area. With the new Campus Kitchen trailer, they’ll be able to reach more residents in different neighborhoods.
Read MoreAs a part of a new initiative launched by the Vice President of Public Service and Outreach, PSO faculty and staff were offered the opportunity to attend a PSO in Action trip. These trips were designed to show PSO employees the impact of their work and what other units do around the state as well as acting as an opportunity to meet new coworkers.
Read MoreEvery year, Public Service and Outreach faculty and staff spend the Friday before Thanksgiving volunteering on service projects in their communities throughout the state. From Athens, Ga. to the coast, every one is hands on and in action serving their communities.
Read MoreIn a continuation of Small Business Development Center COVID success stories, this story covers an Athens area family owned ice cream parlor. The ice cream shop is owned by Beau Shell who started his business when he was kid with just a cooler to sell ice cream from.
Read MoreThis article highlights the relationship between the UGA Center for Continuing Education and Hotel, a unit of Public Service and Outreach, and the UGA hospitality management degree program.
Read MoreThis article highlights the work Benny StaRomana has done as a business contultant with the UGA Small Business Development Center, especially in the Asian-American community in Georgia.
Read MoreThis article highlights the support that the UGA Small Business Development Center, a UGA Public Service and Outreach unit, has provided for a local cattle farm.
Read MoreThis article highlights the educational opportunities that the UGA Center for Continuing Education and Hotel offers through their summer camp programming.
Read MoreNormally, the Children’s Theatre Troupe, a UGA student-run organization, would be performing on the Fine Arts Theatre stage in front of hundreds of third-grade students from throughout Clarke County. This year the stage is in the Experience UGA Google classroom.
Read MoreEven as most Clarke County schools remain online only, students in East Athens are learning about agriculture and nutrition through an in-person, hands-on UGA program offered at a neighborhood community center.
Read MoreNow the State Botanical Garden of Georgia has a new entrance that improves accessibility. With a new elevator and walkway, access from the parking lot to the visitor’s center and soon-to-be open Center for Art and Nature is more accessible than ever.
Read MoreBurt’s Farm is a family owned and operated farm in north Georgia and just like many farms throughout the state, their business felt the affects of COVID-19. With the help of the SBDC, they were able to get a PPP loan and turn things around.
Read MoreUGA Students are a large volunteer base in Athens that local organizations, more often than not, want to tap into. With the help of GivePulse, the Engage GA platform has since become the place where the UGA community and greater Athens community come together to serve.
Read MoreContinuing education is a growing field and two of PSO units -the Georgia Center and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government- focus in that area and have done so for decades. With recent shifts towards and increasing demand for online learning, this article highlight how these two PSO units meet those needs.
Read MoreEven businesses considered essential by state and local governments felt the effects of COVID-19. This article is fourth SBDC success story I wrote as a part of our series focusing on the SBDC’s efforts in response to the pandemic.
Read MoreAnother story in the SBDC success story series, this article highlighted how the pandemic affected music-industry businesses like Team Clermont.
Read MorePeerless Manufacturing was a large rural business supporting the Georgia peanut industry that received a PPP loan for COVID-19 relief with the help of the Small Business Development Center. This article was the second in a series of COVID-19 business success stories focused on the efforts of the SBDC during the pandemic.
Read MoreThis article was the first in a series of COVID-19 business success stories focused on the efforts of the Small Business Development Center during the pandemic. ATC Auto Center was a recipient of the first wave of support from the CARES Act.
Read MoreThis article was my first feature piece written during my time as a Public Relations Coordinator for the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach at the UGA. The Small Business Development Center is one of the units that falls under PSO, so we profiled two businesses that won GLOBE awards as a result of their participation in the Export GA program.
Read MoreThis article was my first written during my time as a Public Relations Coordinator for the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia. The State Botanical Gardens is one of the units that falls under PSO, so one of the responsibilities of my team and I is to cover events like this topping-out ceremony.
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