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Innovative Fitness Announces 2022 Chris Conti Memorial Grant Recipient
On July 30th, we announced the recipient of the 3rd Annual Chris Conti Memorial Grant as Floyd County Police Department headquartered in Rome, Georgia! The existing fitness space houses dilapidated equipment dating as far back as the 1980’s. They will be receiving a long overdue upgrade of their fitness center flooring and equipment. Initially,…
Recipients of the Fostering Education Scholarship Fund for the Fall 2022 Semester Announced
Cobb Community Foundation (CCF) has announced that three scholarship recipients have been named by the Fostering Education Scholarship Fund for the fall 2022 semester. This new scholarship was created in 2021, and for the first time, $7,500 in scholarships has now been awarded to these students to offset the financial burden of earning a degree.…
Love Bags donated to Village Connection
Village Connection is a local non-profit whose mission is to serve children in foster care as well as the homeless in our community. They provide “Love Bags” to children who are awaiting placement into foster homes. Most of these children are removed from their living situations with only a trash bag full of personal items.…
The HOPE Center Woodstock receives goods collected from Innovative Fitness
For the month of May, #IFS collected gently used items and clothing for the Seeds store in Woodstock. They sell quality donated items to benefit the ministry of The HOPE Center Woodstock. We also took time to write encouraging cards for moms to be!
Out visiting our CCMG 2022 top three finalists!
This grant provides a fitness center for an existing space to an organization in need; including consultation, design, fitness equipment, delivery, and installation. For more information visit www.TheCCMG.org
Innovative Fitness Donates to The Center for Children & Young Adults
Thanks to a recommendation from the Cobb Community Foundation, Innovative Fitness was able to fill a need at the Center for Children & Young Adults (CCYA)! Since 1981, The Center for Children & Young Adults, located in Marietta, GA has provided a safe home for youth who have been abused, neglected, and/or abandoned by their…
Melissa Wins CFO of the Year: Community Champion
Our very own President/CFO, Melissa Conti, received the Community Champion CFO of the Year award presented by Atlanta Business Chronicle on Thursday, May 19th at the Chick-Fil-A Football Hall of Fame. Her relentless dedication to serving the community has not gone unnoticed. In the most recent years, Melissa has continued to steer Innovative Fitness towards…
Innovative Fitness Donates To Reflections of Trinity
Innovative Fitness donated $1,000 to Reflections of Trinity through the Service with Love Giving Fund. The Service with Love Giving Fund supports causes and fulfills needs in the community. Reflections of Trinity is committed to making sure that no family goes hungry. Starting in 2000 as a community thrift store in downtown powder springs, they…
2nd Annual Backyard Olympic Games
We held our 2nd Annual Backyard Olympic Games Fundraiser and bounced, shuffled, tossed, and jousted our way to raising funds to benefit the Fostering Education Scholarship Fund (“FESF”). To date, we have raised over $2,400 and will continue raising funds through May 31, 2022. Our teams competed in the plunger challenge, hippity hop race, plank…
Valentine’s Day with Colbert Square Senior Living Residents
Our February service project was full of love and goodies! We had such a fun time together making goody bags, but the true joy came from going door-to-door and seeing the beautiful smiles on each resident’s face as they received their treats and a special Valentine’s Day wish of love. Colbert Square consists of 69…
Applications are now being accepted for the Fostering Education Scholarship!
Applications are now being accepted for the Fostering Education Scholarship. If you are or you know of a student who is aging out of the foster care system and would like to apply, please email catherine@cobbfoundation.org for a link to the online application.
Innovative Fitness Collects over 300 books To Donate!
Our service project for January, Innovative Fitness, collected over 300 gently used books to donate to Cobb Collaborative to help fill their free little libraries around Cobb County and donate to teachers to help fill their rooms. Cobb Collaborative is a membership of nonprofit organizations, local government, businesses, faith-based organizations, educational institutions, professional organizations, associations,…