Houston 2022 Room Block

Community Incident Response Foundation

In September 2018 with Hurricane Florence approaching The United States, the start of the foundation began. The founder Michael O’Brien, who is a Police Officer for The City of Kennesaw located in Georgia, was sharing his concerns with neighbor and future board member Danyale Kelley. She suggested Mike contact The Cajun Navy to see if he could help in any way. Mike responded to Lumberton NC and other affected areas over the next week. As Mike was on his first mission he took notes of lessons he learned to figure out what his role would be in future disaster responses.

Community Incident Response Foundation was incorporated as a nonprofit Corporation in October 2018. The Board of Directors began discussions about how to organize the foundation.

In March 2019 deadly tornadoes hit Alabama and Georgia. Mike felt a need to deploy for this mission. Mike was joined by Joe “Chef” Kelley on the trip to Talbot County GA. After a very successful weekend of feeding, bringing clothes, blankets and compassion to the City of Talbotton. The vision for the foundation became clear as Mike and Chef were on this mission. We will focus on feeding first responders and Volunteers along with the people living in the effected communities.

Mary Ligon joined the Rotary Club of Dougherty County (Albany, GA) in 2002 serving in several capacities before becoming President in 2009-2010. At the district level, Mary has served as an Assistant Governor, AG Trainer/Coordinator, multi-district PETS facilitator and District Grants chair. She has been recognized as District Rotarian of the Year in 2017, with the Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service in 2018 and is a Rotary Foundation major donor. Having served on numerous community boards and with over 20 years of experience participating in, volunteering in, and leading community leadership programs, Mary understands the opportunity and benefits of focus and scale in achieving impactful results. She is an alumnus of several community and regional leadership programs and served as the director of Leadership Albany for 17 years. In 2016 the national Association of Leadership Programs recognized Mary with their Preceptor Award and she is currently serving as Resources Director for the organization. Mary has a BBA degree from Georgia Southern University in Management/Information Systems and began her career with IBM. Established in 1994, she maintains a consulting business - Mary Ligon, etc. Mary and her husband Jim have two grown daughters.

Join us to serve lunch to those who served our country!

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The North Cobb Rotary Club would like to sponsor a table at this event, and need 4 or more volunteers to attend the table and promote Rotary.

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Belisa M. Urbina – Bio 2021 Mrs. Urbina was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She studied Business Administration at the University of Puerto Rico and graduated Valedictorian of her class. In 2001, along with her husband Miguel, she co-founded Ser Familia, Inc. which is the leading program in Georgia providing coordinated multi-disciplinary family, social and mental health services to Latinos. Among many organizations she is involved in, she is a member of Cobb County’s 2020 Steering Committee and Kennestone Hospital’s Regional Board of Directors past chairperson. She is also a member of the Prevent Child Abuse Georgia Advisory Board and Georgia’s Child Protective Services Advisory Council. She has been a part of Georgia’s Department of Public Health COVID- 19 Health Equity Council. In 2014, she was chosen as one of the 11WhoCare®by Atlanta’s 11 Alive Channel. In 2017 she was honored by the Georgia Women’s Legislative Caucus with the Nikki T Randall Servant Leadership Award and recognized with the NFL Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award by the Atlanta Falcons. In 2018, the Atlanta Braves chose her along with her husband Miguel as Braves’ Community Heroes. She has also been named as one of Georgia’s 50 Most Influential Latinos in 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2021, Mrs. Urbina and her husband were inducted to the Georgia Latinos’ Hall of Fame. She is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta (2017) and the Regional Leadership Institute (2019). Ms. Urbina has been married to Miguel for 36 years and is the mother of 5 adult children and grandmother of 7.