Strong Families Create Stronger Futures For Oconee County

Our Greater Good partners with parents, schools, and community members to help children.

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Before Children Need Intervention, They Need Connection

When children are supported, schools grow stronger.

When families feel equipped, communities become healthier.

That's why everything we do starts right here at home.

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PRACTICAL PARENTING • STRONGER RELATIONSHIPS • CONFIDENT KIDS •

PRACTICAL PARENTING • STRONGER RELATIONSHIPS • CONFIDENT KIDS •

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Helping Oconee County Families Thrive

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Growing
Great Kids

Practical activities for children 0-5 to encourage language, literacy, and healthy development.

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Mentoring Program

Connecting local volunteers for weekly one-on-one mentoring meetings with students

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Love
and Logic

Equipping parents and educators to raise confident, resilient children with practical tools and encouragement.

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One Caring Adult Can Change Everything

  • It turns out what my mentee wanted wasn't help with schoolwork. He wanted someone to talk to. Someone to listen. A few months into our time together, he asked if I would be his mentor again the following school year. I knew then that the simple act of showing up was making a difference.

    Wayne W.

  • Oconee County got a whole lot better when Our Greater Good moved there. The founder, Garner, spreads good wherever he goes and blesses everyone he comes in contact with. 

    Andy L.

  • Lucky Oconee County. Amazing program, and an amazing leader.

    Nick P.

  • So happy to see the Our Greater Good in Oconee County. It's such a beautiful program that has become a true fundamental piece of what makes a community so strong.

    Oconee County is soo lucky!!

    Emily R.

  • Awesome job!!! Oconee County schools are blessed to have you there!!

    Lowell W.

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3,000+

local children, parents, and teachers served in EACH of the last 3 school years

In Porter County, Indiana 

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Greater Good
Starts Close to Home

The future of Oconee County is being shaped every day.

In our homes.
In our schools.
In our neighborhoods.

And when we show up for one another, lasting change becomes possible.

PARTNER WITH US
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our partners

Oconee Chamber logo with a globe and dolphin, with the tagline "Advocating Business, Cultivating Community".
A colorful logo for Baby Read, featuring a cartoon green worm with glasses reading a book, with the words "Baby Read" in multicolored letters below
Logo for Sallies Family Ministries featuring a sun, a heart with a house inside, and the text 'Sallies Family Ministries' in blue and green.
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Volunteer

Be the caring adult a child remembers forever.

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Donate

Help strengthen families throughout Oconee County.

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Stronger Families Start With Us

Together, we can help children across Oconee County feel supported, valued, and deeply loved.

SUPPORT LOCAL FAMILIES
EXPLORE OUR PROGRAMS