Hot Projects: Week of Dec. 3

Action Ministries Food Box Build Out

Thursday, December 13 From 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Westside)

What better way to bring amazing people together, then by volunteering with Feed the Hungry?! We’re building over 40,000 food boxes to help 10's of thousands of families put food on the table this year. We need YOU to help make this possible. You will be assembling food boxes assembly line style, starting with building of the box from beginning to end. 1. Assemble flat food box 2. Fill food boxes with a pre-determined box menu following overhead instructions 3. Fully break down used/consumed cardboard and remove plastic from food packaging 4. Place cardboard and plastic in designated containers 5. Close finished food boxes and place on pallet 6. Repeat

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Hearts to Nourish Hope Food Pantry

Thursday, December 13 From 9:30 AM - 2:00 PM (Riverdale)

Hearts to Nourish Hope is a community-driven nonprofit that provides high quality programs to identify and develop the internal resources of youth aged 16-24 in Clayton, Fayette and Gwinnett Counties. The Food Pantry began as a community service project, envisioned by youth to address the need of families in our community. This service project continued and now has the capacity to serve over 1300 families per month, providing year-round food assistance. Duties: Help prepare food boxes and give them out to the community. Stock and organize shelves. Some heavy lifting and bending involved.

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Open Hand Meal Delivery

Saturday, December 15 From 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Delivery Routes Throughout Metro Atlanta)

Open Hand helps homebound seniors and others suffering from disability or chronic disease by providing Comprehensive Nutrition Care™(CNC), a combination of nutritious, home-delivered meals, and nutrition education. Open Hand prepares, packages, and delivers 5,300 nutritionally-appropriate meals a day, six days a week with the support of volunteers. Volunteers will pick-up meals, deliver meals to clients using their own vehicles and gas, and return the delivery list and delivery bags back to the Open Hand site. Delivery routes are available throughout Metro Atlanta, and the Open Hand team will work with volunteers to select a route where they will feel comfortable.

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Proctor Creek Greenspace Restoration: EcoAddendum & WAWA

Saturday, December 15 From 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM OR 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (NW Atlanta)

Show Grove Park/Proctor Creek some love through our community-focused program that goes beyond volunteering. West Atlanta Watershed Alliance and EcoAddendum are offering training and opportunities to help restore a very special forest in Grove Park! Come out for a forest restoration and invasive species stewardship training and work session or a native wildflower planting session. Kathryn Kolb from EcoAddendum will lead each session with a short training on restoration and invasive species removal session, followed by a short work session.

Discovery Program @ Brookview Elementary

Saturday December 15, 2018 From 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (College Park)

The Hands On Atlanta Discovery program is a volunteer-led Saturday tutoring and enrichment program. The two-hour session occurs twice a month from 10am to 12pm. The program reinforces weekday learning through academic assistance, educational games, field trips, service-learning projects, and other enrichment activities. Students are engaged in a variety of subjects depending on the needs of their particular schools. Our goal is to have a one-on-one volunteer to student ratio, allowing for individualized attention and the building of relationships between students and volunteers.