MLK Days of Service
Kahiah Polidore
Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024
Events, ATL Community
Tim Adkins
Hands On Atlanta Week Makes Big Impact

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. Check out all the impact in this recap.

Tim Adkins
Thousands of volunteers pack 1.5 million meals ...

Over the course of just 2 days, close to 6,000 volunteers came together to pack almost 1.5 million meals that will be distributed here locally in Metro Atlanta. Hands On Atlanta was there with support staff volunteers to ensure the Million Meal Pack at State Farm Arena and the 9/11 Day of Remembrance at Mercedes-Benz Stadium hit their meal packing goals. Learn more about these fun and meaningful events and how you can get involved in our fight against food insecurity.

Events
Tim Adkins
Make the Assist | Help1 million meals get packed

The Atlanta Hawks are rallying the Atlanta community to pack more than 1 million meals for Georgia families facing food insecurity. The Million Meal Pack happens July 16 at State Farm Arena and we need about 200 Support Staff volunteers to help ensure the meals get packed so families get fed.

ATL Community, Events
Tim Adkins
Make a Difference with DECA

DECA is a nonprofit student association that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and management, and they will be hosting their annual International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Atlanta in April. DECA is bringing 20,000 high school students to Atlanta for the event, and they need more than 1,000 VOLUNTEERS to participate as judges for career-related competitive events at the Georgia World Congress Center on April 24 and/or 25.

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DISCO Supply Drive

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In response to the impact of COVID-19, Disco is an Olympic themed, team-based virtual experience created for students in grades 3-5 to engage in fun and interactive activities while at-home. Our goal is to beat isolation in the virtual education space and provide a safe space for students.

During these sessions, students will have the opportunity to do educational activities, connect with fellow classmates, and create a space of team comradery and creativity. The supplies are essential as they allow our students to complete the weekly activities and broaden their knowledge around important themes such as math, financial literacy, STEAM, history, and other focus areas. Traditionally, this program is known as Discovery when in-person.

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How it Works

  1. Click here to review the list of items needed

  2. Order new items with the quantity and retailer of your choice

  3. Upon checkout, have the items shipped to:

Hands On Atlanta

Attn: Tasia Limonius

600 Means Street, Ste. 100 

Atlanta, GA 30318

thank you for supporting our disco partner schools!!

Disco’s Title 1 Partner Schools:  

  • Brookview Elementary School

  • Clay-Harmony Leland Elementary School

  • Harper Archer Elementary School

  • The Kindezi School at Old Fourth Ward

  • The Kindezi School West

  • Parklane Elementary School

  • Scott Elementary School

  • Usher Collier Elementary

Basic Materials Needed

  • 300+ Small Clear bags   

  • 300+ Scotch Tape Rolls  

  • 300+ Plastic Jars   

  • 25 Boxes of Craft Sticks  

  • 25 Bags of Pom-Poms for Crafts  

  • 10 Large Bags of Googly Eyes for Crafts

  • 300+ Boxes of Crayons (24 total)

  • 300+ Boxes of Thin Markers (10 total)

  • 10 Large boxes of Pencils (150 count)

  • 300+ Boxes of Colored Pencils (12 count)   

  • 300 Elmer’s Glue Sticks  

  • 300 Bottles of Elmer’s Liquid Glue

  • 300 Olympic themed metals   

  • 300 Composition Books

  • 300 Folders    

  • 25 Boxes of Straws  

  • 25 Boxes of Small Sandwich Bags

  • 25 Packs of Construction Paper

  • 25 Packs of Scissors (300 total)

  • 10 Balls of Yarn  

  • 10 Packs of Pipe Cleaners

  • 10 Cases of Printer Paper

  • Stickers  

Discover Your Impact at Discovery

For the last 28 years, volunteers have been working with students at elementary schools teaching health and wellness, STEM concepts, social and emotional learning (SEL), and more through the Hands On Atlanta Discovery program.

To learn more about this impact program, I sat down with Candice White, Discovery Program Manager, to learn more about why Discovery is so important (now in 11 Title 1, public schools covering from Smyrna to East Point, serving nearly 1,400 students - almost 90% of them receiving free and reduced lunch) and how volunteers, like you, can get involved.  

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