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Former volunteer to lead
Community Assistance Center
BY BOB PEPALIS
The Community Assistance Center (CAC) has chosen volunteer Francis Horton as
its next CEO to fill the position upon Tamara Carrera’s retirement.
Horton plans to use his experience with international nonprofits that help to lift
people out of poverty to aid neighbors in Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, the CAC said
in a news release. Horton and
Carrera will spend the next
month or so working on the
transition to his leadership.
Carrera was the driving
force behind CAC’s growth
from a small charity initial
ly housed at a scout hut at the
Vernon Presbyterian Church
campus, providing food and
clothing to about 280 families
a year, to the go-to emergency
assistance agency in the com
munity serving more than
6,500 individuals a year from
3,000 households.
Carrera joined CAC as a vol
unteer in 1993, and in 1997 was
hired as its fourth director.
Horton and his wife Angie
have volunteered at the CAC
food pantry and thrift shop.
“He understands both the
circumstances and condi
tions leading to poverty, and
more importantly, has years of
frontline experience design
ing and implementing models
to help people recover from
natural disasters, food insecu
rity, inadequate housing, and
poor access to education and
sustainable jobs,” said CAC
board member Cece Webster,
who led the search committee.
He has worked in leadership positions in Africa, Asia and Pakistan with Interna
tional Mission Board, Samaritan’s Purse and other organizations, the CAC said in a
release. Those teams have included volunteers across countries diverse in race, reli
gion and ethnicity.
He earned a law degree from Mississippi College School of Law.
“Francis is well positioned with the right leadership skills, values and motivation
to move CAC from ‘good to great’ to achieve even further impact in service of our crit
ical mission,” said CAC Board Chair Anne Hicks.
SPECIAL
Francis Horton and his wife, Angie, are
familiar faces at the Community Assistance
Center’s food pantry and thrift shop.
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