Dr. Joy Brown Clark

Taskforce leader

Mission-

Enhance the education for our young students.

Vision-

Raise awareness and provide support for the students of the Cashiers area.

A few of the initial accomplishments sre:

Designed and created school celebration banners, building community pride.
Assisted in creating a generic scholarship application form to be used by area donor organizations
Connect schools websites to the Cashiers Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Joy Clark and her task force created three focus areas for 2020:

Build a Junior Achievement program with Blue Ridge School
Create a student career summit convention on April 17th for 6th, 7th and 8th graders at Blue Ridge School and Summit Charter School. Last year's was a huge success!
Distribute the brochure we created to all Realtors explaining the diversity of education offerings. See brochure here.

Junior Achievement is the recognized leader in "empowering young people to own their economic success" through volunteer-led, experiential learning.

Creating a student career summit

We are creating the second student career summit convention for 6th, 7th and 8th graders and it will be held in April

and potential home owners

Through distributing a brochure explaining the diversity of education offerings