common ground montgomery news and updates

leadership program meeting changed

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Dear parents and guardians, because we won't be done with our acceptance notification calls until later this week, we've postponed the mandatory parent/guardian meeting until Thursday, August 31st, at 6 PM. 

If you get an acceptance phone call this week, be sure to plan on being at this meeting, as failure to do so will lead to the withdrawal of your student's application in our program.

leadership (after school) program applications

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If you want to enroll your child in CGM's new after-school program, the Leadership Program, you can stop by the main office Monday, August 14th through Friday, August 18th to pick up an application. Both the priority list (returning students) and secondary list (students that live in our zone of operation) for students is on a first-come, first-served basis.

The name "Leadership Program" is not a name change only from the former After School Program, as there have been several changes. A mandatory meeting for parents of students accepted into the program will be held at CGM's main building (1516 Mobile Road) on August 25th at 6:00 PM - failure to attend will result in your child's application being withdrawn.

For a PDF version of the application, or to start an online reservation (which is a partial application that time stamps your start of the application process) visit the program page: http://cgm.life/leadership-program/

board names justin hampton as new executive director

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Common Ground Montgomery (CGM), a youth and community development ministry in Montgomery, Alabama, today announced that Justin Hampton was selected as the executive director by the board of directors, effective July 10, 2017. Hampton succeeds CGM founder Bryan Kelly as executive director. Kelly remains on staff, teaching and mentoring, as well as continuing to develop networking and donor relations for CGM's Montgomery efforts and beyond.

Of his new role, Hampton said: "I can think of no greater pursuit than leading the Washington Park focused efforts of CGM. It’s where I played my youth football. It’s where I graduated from high school (St. Jude). It’s where I attended church services as a child. It’s where my mother and her eight siblings were raised. Its love is deeply rooted in my heart and its success in this season is my calling."

"We believe God is shaping our organization towards expanded and deeper impact where we are in the Washington Park community, but also towards growth into other Montgomery areas and beyond," said Kelly. "By expanding our leadership team, we will be able to pivot our organization and grow our impact towards replication and training other leaders to do transformative works in other areas of poverty."

Hampton, a graduate of Tuskegee University, worked with CGM for five years before leaving to get his Master's Degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to returning back to Montgomery, Hampton lived in Washington, D.C., and worked as a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton.

CGM is a youth and community development ministry, whose programs include an after school program, summer camp, college internship program, and student mentoring. It was started in 2006 to serve the Washington Park and Gibbs Village community of west Montgomery.