Take a servant’s heart, an innate talent for organization and the energy to make things happen. The result is Peachtree city, GA charity executive Mike Conaway. Mike spent 20 years in the corrugated industry in the US and Central America, first as an engineer, then in sales and finally as a business owner. The leadership skills he gained through sales and business were put to greater use when he became an ordained minister and coordinated a Peachtree city congregation’s outreach programs that included a “ car care’ ministry that performed basic automotive services for needy individuals with many donated materials recruited by him.Conaway’s community outreach led to a 501c3 nonprofit community health service, Healing Bridge Clinic, that provides hea1thcare to the underserved communities of central Georgia. First recruited to the board of directors, he became full time executive director in 2018. Since taking leadership of the HBC the value of medical care provided to the community has increased from 241,400 in 2017 to $1,700.000 in 2022. Tirelessly championing the cause. Conaway led the organization through the 2020 pandemic shutdown while sustaining needed funding and increasing the impact made on the local community. Not hesitating to join forces with other financially stretched charitable organizations, he co-founded the Fore Our Community Charity Golf Classic – a partnership between two nonprofits serving the same community coming together to raise money for both. Proving has creativity and flexibility, the Healing Bridge Clinic transformed its annual fundraising dinner to a virtual event that saved expenses while generating substantial monies for the organization.Mike Conaway believes that independent charitable institutions can serve communities as well or better than bureaucracies with appropriate support; that a helping hand at an appropriate time in an individual’s life can lead them to a greater control of their future and perhaps, to financial independence and an opportunity to pay it forward to others.

Mike Conaway has been married for 39 years to his wife Shirley and has one adult son, Shawn. He is a graduate of Vincennes University.