Garden 58
Non Governmental Association
Why pick this one
Garden 58 provides relationship-based tutoring in Andrews and Murphy, plus foster-family and women's transition support through three Cherokee County programs.
Best for
- Cherokee County families seeking referral-based tutoring for elementary or middle-school students
- Foster, adoptive, or kinship families needing church-supported practical care
- Churches building Care Community teams for foster-connected families
- Women seeking mentorship, life-skills education, and resource connections during a transition toward stability
- Volunteers able to commit to recurring tutoring, mentoring, or family-support roles
Look elsewhere if
- Women needing immediate enrollment in Good Ground, because the program is currently not actively enrolling new participants
- Students needing tutoring outside the Andrews and Murphy programs described on the site
- People seeking a secular-only organization, because Garden 58 is Christian and includes prayer and Scripture in its programs
Specialties
- One-on-one tutoring and mentoring for kindergarten through eighth-grade students
- Foster, adoptive, kinship, and biological-family support through church-based Care Communities
- Mentorship and life-skills support for women transitioning from incarceration, homelessness, or crisis
Certifications
- 501(c)(3) nonprofit registration
- Promise 686 Implementing Partner
- Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) training
What makes them different
- Pinwheel and Firefly serve students at elementary and middle schools in Andrews and Murphy
- Pinwheel volunteers commit to two afternoons per week for ten weeks and receive background checks and training
- More Than Enough Care Communities include 4–8 trained volunteers supporting one family for at least a year
- Good Ground participants completing Faith & Finances may qualify for matched savings of up to $1,000
- Garden 58 operates three programs serving children, foster-connected families, and women in Cherokee County
- Serves
- Andrews, Murphy
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 205 Chestnut St, Andrews, NC 28901-8060
- Website
- http://garden58.org/
- g58director@gmail.com
Services
- Tutoring and academic mentoring
- Foster-family and kinship-family support
- Women's transition mentorship
- Life-skills classes and resource connections
- Volunteer and church partnership coordination