Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report
Dear friends and supporters,
Fiscal year 2024 was an unprecedented year of impact for Hands On Atlanta. We brought back our beloved High Five Party to announce our 1,000,000th volunteer (with a little help from our good friend, Mayor Dickens). In addition to this incredible milestone for our organization, we grew our most important metric - people engaged - to just over 62,000 people. This is an increase of about 55% over the previous 5 years of work. Combined with another impressive cohort of AmeriCorps members, we tallied just over 250,000 hours served in our community - a value of $8.3M. Amazing!
With a healthy emergency fund and consistent years of financial surplus, FY24 also provided an opportunity to invest back in our team. I’m thrilled we have the ability to grow our culture, reinforce our CARE values (Collaborative, Authentic, Relentless, Entrepreneurial) and impact for years to come.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Your unwavering support turns our mission from an idea into a vibrant reality. Thanks for being a part of our journey.
President and CEO
FY24 Impact
60,000
People Engaged
700+ Discovery volunteers engaged 532 students with 94% achieving lesson learning objectives
Partnered with 150 nonprofits, averaging 88 Net Promoter Score
11,000
Projects
Engaged 5,400 corporate volunteers at sponsored group placements and/or custom projects
Graduated 14 pantries through Hands On Hunger, distributing 8 million meals
260,000
Hours Served
50 AmeriCorps members supported 462 students with 80% of them improving in math and ELA
Graduated 30 Civic Leaders who engaged 2,000+ people at 150 projects and raised $25,000+
meet the team
Tim Adkins
Director of Marketing + Corporate Impact
Claire Arnold
Associate Director of Community + Civic Engagement
Robert Ballinger
Director of Finance
Nicki Brown
Director of Development
Chandler Burns
Sr. Coordinator of Corporate Impact
Earvin Casciano
Education Programs Coordinator
Jay Cranman
President and CEO
LaToya Cutliff
Operations Manager
Sara Dowdle
Grants and Revenue Senior Coordinator
Lauren Lopez
Sr. Coordinator of Corporate Impact
Kalin Morphet
AmeriCorps Operations Coordinator
Chanika R. Perry, Ed.D
Director of Education Programs
Kahiah Polidore, MFA
Marketing Coordinator
Alexis Prothro
AmeriCorps Program Manager
Ariannie Reyes
Senior Development Coordinator
Trey Stanley
Discovery Programs Manager
Kristen Thomas
Associate Director of AmeriCorps
Bill Webber
Associate Director of Corporate Impact
board of directors
Stephanie Bedard
Senior Partner
Senior Associate
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP
Beth Cabrera
President
Cabrera Insights
Todd Croom
Chief Financial Officer
Jackson Spalding
Chad Duncan
Managing Director
Accenture
Adrian Epps
Dean
Bagwell College of Education, Kennesaw State University
Tara Ghei
COO
Clearbrief
Amber Hall
Chief Compliance & Privacy Officer
Cox Communications
Eileen Lee - Board Development Committee Chair
Managing Director
Endeavor Atlanta
Andrew Liebler
Partner
Alston & Bird
Chris McDade
Sr. Principal, Customer Digital Experience
Chick-Fil-A
Wendy Miller
North America People Leader
McKinsey
Terreta Rodgers
Head of Community Affairs, Atlanta Region Amazon
Kelli Bacote Ross
Director of Partnerships
City of Atlanta
Renee Stevens
Chief People Officer
Honey Baked Ham
Adrienne White
VP Not-for-Profit & Commercial Relationship Manager
SouthState Bank
Amal Yusuf
General Manager, Airport Operations/Field Support
Delta
SERVICE SPOTLIGHT
Hands On Atlanta Week
For the 2023 edition of Hands On Atlanta Week, presented by Delta Air Lines, more than 2,500 volunteers supported over 50 nonprofits and schools at 250 projects! The focus for the week prioritized projects around our three strategic impact areas - Food Security, Educational Equity and Environmental Sustainability.
Education Programs
The quest of the Education Programs Team at Hands On Atlanta is to improve educational outcomes and directly confront systemic injustice for students and families across metro Atlanta. We aim to be the premier team tackling educational inequities for children from birth to 12th grade in partnership with our local institutions and organizations.
During SY24, three key programs anchoredHands On Atlanta's education portfolio and impacted more than 12,000 students across metro Atlanta: AmeriCorps, Discovery, and Meals4Kids. As an organization, we are proud of our results, but we understand there are many miles to go before our students and families have the quality of life they deserve.
OUR EDUCATION PARTNERS
TUTORING + COACHING
52 AmeriCorps members provided over 72,00 hours of service to 402 students in grades K-12 across 15 schools in three school districts in SY24. Students in schools with AmeriCorps members improved 86% in math and 83% in ELA.
MEALS4KIDS
Part of our wraparound support provides meals for students aimed to combat food insecurity. Philanthropic and volunteer support from our corporate partners make this program possible. This year, we proudly delivered meals to 11,212 families.
WEEKEND ENRICHMENT
Discovery, the longest-running program in our portfolio, supported 467 K-5 students across 10 schools in 3 districts. Each site had a Hands On Atlanta Civic Fellow serving as school captain with the support of 1,950 additional volunteers.
Our AmeriCorps members had a tremendous impact across metro Atlanta schools during SY24. Serving a full 10-month service term,members contributed to our students' academic and social-emotional growth throughout the school year. Members served K-12students as ELA/math tutors and social-emotional learning coaches. We were excited to expand our footprint into DeKalb CountySchools to help The Anchor School in their inaugural year, and we look forward to continued expansion into other districts beginning in SY25.
MEET OUR AMERICORPS MEMBERS
GET MORE EDUCATION PROGRAMS IMPACT DATA
SERVICE SPOTLIGHT
MLK days of service
The 2024 MLK Days of Service, presented by Delta Air Lines, set out to showcase the good we can create by coming together to help build Dr. King’s “Beloved Community.” More than 3,000 volunteers stepped up to serve over January 11-15, 2024 braving cold temps to support 50 nonprofits and schools across metro Atlanta.
COMMUNITY + Civic ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS
Our Community + Civic Engagement team provides programming and capacity-building resources to 150 of the most effective and impactful nonprofits in the Atlanta community, who are focused primarily on food security, educational equity, and environmental sustainability. The resources range from powering their impact via volunteer recruitment, to placing leadership volunteers (our Civic Fellows) with nonprofits who act as host sites, to providing high quality trainings & trend reports on volunteer engagement – plus, tons more.
In FY24, we launched a Steering Committee of 10 nonprofits, providing input & insights in our programming to ensure it’s truly driven by those who benefit from it. We also brought on 17 new partners, retaining 87% of our partnership base from FY23. In addition to these wins, we grew our Civic Leadership Program by 50% and significantly moved the needle in our core impact areas.
our community and civic engagement partners
This is just a sample, but you can explore 150+ nonprofit and community partners here.
impact by the numbers
FOOD SECURITY
37,500 volunteers mobilized to 7518 projects totaling 138, 942 hours of service, benefiting 58 nonprofit partners - a $4,118,036 value to the community.
EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
4503 volunteers mobilized to 2400 projects totaling 91,069 hours of service, benefiting 63 nonprofit + school partners – a $2,981,841 value to the community.
SUSTAINABILITY
5040 volunteers mobilized to 1228 projects totaling 13,548 hours of service, benefiting 26 nonprofit partners – a $400,213 value to the community.
Our Civic Leadership Program wrapped up its 15th cohort in FY24! This program mobilizes dedicated community leaders for a year’s term, by placing them with our nonprofit + school partners and bringing participants through a thoughtful leadership development program. 30 graduates spearheaded 225 projects, mobilizing 3000 volunteers in 12,000 hours of service. The fellows supported 11 nonprofit partners and 11 schools, attended 8 leadership trainings and raised a combined $33,000. FY24 was a huge year of growth, increasing program participation by 50% from FY23.
meet our civic fellows
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SERVICE SPOTLIGHT
HIGH FIVE PARTY
The return of our annual celebration to recognize and celebrate the heart work of dedicated volunteers came on April 18, 2024 - National High Five Day! It was at the 2024 High Five Party where Atlanta Mayor, Andre Dickens, announced our 1,000,000th volunteer, Sydney Williams.
FY24 CHAMPION SUPPORTERS
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
$5,000 +
Yasir Mirza
Fontaine Lee
Elizabeth Chrane
Richard Goldsmith
Becky Schmitt
Camry Blaising
Cindy Abel
Ellen Landers
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