Snellville Commerce Club

The Snellville Commerce Club was established in 1984. Our monthly meetings regularly include professionals and merchants from the Snellville area. We are seeking new members who would like to benefit their businesses by becoming part of a community-based organization.

In 2011, the Commerce Club became the official business marketing organization of Snellville Tourism & Trade, the city’s Destination Marketing Organization.

Our Mission

“Our purpose is to establish and promote programs that strengthen the ties among members, their respective businesses, and the community.”

Commerce Club Meeting & Luncheon

June 3rd at Noon

Michael W. Davis serves as GUIDE’s Associate Executive Director of Prevention. In this role, Michael oversees all GUIDE’s prevention strategies, activities and campaigns.

As a student at Buford High School, Michael participated in Georgia Teen Institute, GUIDE’s summer leadership conference, and has been involved with GUIDE and GTI as a volunteer ever since. In August 2018, Michael joined the GUIDE family as a full-time employee in his current role.

Prior to working at GUIDE, Michael’s career background was focused mainly on college students, serving in several roles in housing, financial aid and the Dean of Students office at four different universities. In his last role at Iowa State University, he served as interim coordinator for prevention services during the university restructuring. Michael was reminded of his passion for working with prevention programs. In that role and with his work at the Chi Phi Fraternity, Michael frequently presented on alcohol risk reduction, bystander intervention, consent and health relationships education, power-based violence prevention and social justice issues.

Michael has volunteered and served on many different boards during his career, most recently serving as Vice Chair of Mosaic Georgia’s Board of Directors, Wellness Counselor for the Chi Phi Fraternity Grand Council, 2023 President of Let’s Be Clear Georgia’s Board of Directors, the Georgia School for Addiction Studies Board of Directors and recently finished up his two terms on the University of West Georgia Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Michael is an Internationally Certified Prevention Specialist through the Prevention Credentialing Consortium of Georgia and regularly trains others in the Core Courses required by PCCG.

In 2023, Michael received the Ray Avant Excellence in Prevention Award for his contributions to the field. Michael is a 2022 Leadership Gwinnett graduate and serves on the Glance Gwinnett and Justice Learning Day Planning Committees.

Michael holds a Ph.D. in Education from Iowa State University, a Master of Science degree in Professional Counseling from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of West Georgia. Michael has presented on the local, state, and national levels on leadership, education, prevention and social justice issues. Michael believes in the quote, “ True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen; it’s preventing.”