Cards Over Clicks wins four Citizen's Choice Awards in reader vote covering Fayette and Coweta counties

Denny Loewer walked into The Citizen's 2026 Citizen's Choice Awards hoping Cards Over Clicks might take one category. It took four.

The Newnan/Fayetteville-area nonprofit — which uses sports cards, Pokémon cards, and other trading card collecting to give kids a device-free alternative to social media — swept the community-impact portion of the reader-voted contest, which covers Fayette and Coweta counties. The 2026 edition drew a substantial number of ballots across dozens of categories.

Cards Over Clicks won multiple categories in the community-impact section.

Cards Over Clicks is a registered 501(c)(3) founded by Dennis Loewer. The organization's approach is deliberately low-tech: trading activities, grade-level educational packets, and in-person events designed to build literacy, social skills, responsibility, and confidence in young people.

The Citizen's Choice Awards are not the organization's first outside recognition.

For a nonprofit still in its early years, multiple wins in a single community poll — each tied directly to human impact rather than organizational size or budget — signals that the card-collecting mission has found genuine traction in the two-county area it serves.

Why it matters — A small, still-young nonprofit built around trading cards just outpolled every other community organization in four human-impact categories across two counties — a signal of how strongly the screen-free mission is resonating with local families.

Reported by thecitizen.com, cardsoverclicks.org, atlantabestmedia.com