A Life-Changer in Georgia!
Throughout Georgia, a network of dedicated volunteers and community partners are joining together to serve their neighbors in need. When you get involved in breaking the cycle of poverty for your neighbors in need, it’s not just their lives that are changed. It’s YOURS, too!
Get involved with opportunities in your community today! Choose your region below, and sign up or contact us for more information. Thanks for being a life-changer!
Metro Atlanta Region
Smart Lunch, Smart Kid
Prepare and/or serve lunches to children in need during summer and school holidays.
Sign up to volunteer for Thanksgiving Break SLSK today!
Click on the community name below to sign up.
Dekalb County
Fulton County
Gwinnett County
- LOCATION: Scattered Sites throughout the metro area
- CONTACT: Amy Olvey, Hunger Relief Program Director
Women’s Community Kitchen 
Provide or serve a meal at the Women’s Community Kitchen.
Great for Groups of 10 or fewer!
- LOCATION: Women’s Community Kitchen, 458 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30308
- TIME: Monday – Friday 10 am – 12 pm
- CONTACT: Kara Campbell, partner relations coordinator
- Wishlist- Purchase items from our wishlist to be sent directly to the Women’s Community Kitchen!
Feed the Hungry
Host a food drive to benefit FTH or pack food boxes (we need 2,000 every month!) for needy families or SuperPacks for schoolchildren at our warehouse or your location.
Great for weekend volunteers and groups of up to 35
- LOCATION: Feed the Hungry, 2160 Hills Avenue, Building 2, 2160 F, Atlanta, GA 30318
- TIME: Typically Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
- CONTACT to schedule volunteer events: Amy Olvey, Director for Hunger Relief Programs, 678-469-6215
- CONTACT to schedule food box & Superpack pickups: Eugene Overton, Director of Operations, Feed the Hungry warehouse
Essence of Hope
Feed over 1,000 individuals /families every week throughout the year! Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday pack and distribute food/wellness items to roughly 300 individuals and families!
We welcome rock stars of all ages (children 8 and under are welcomed with direct supervision), organizations and corporate sponsors.
- LOCATION: Essence of Hope, 2031 Metropolitan Pkwy Atlanta, GA 30315
- TIME: Typically Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
- CONTACT for questions: Nikki Swanson @770.873.9750
Trinity Table Kitchen
Provide and serve a hot meal and to-go bags each Sunday at Trinity Table. Plan a special project, such as distributing winter coats, socks, hygiene kits or other items needed by our guests.
SUNDAYS ONLY
- LOCATION: Trinity Table Kitchen, 265 Washington Street SW, Atlanta, GA 30303
- TIME: Sundays from 10 am – 2 pm
- CONTACT: Bonnie Selleck, Trinity Table volunteer manager to sign your group up to serve and or prepare a meal
Smart Kid After-School program, Roswell
Become a mentor and help end generational poverty by empowering families to succeed at school and in the workplace.
- LOCATION: Roswell Public Library, 115 Norcross St., Roswell, GA 30075
- CONTACT: Gilma Cantu, program manager for Smart Kid After-School
Smart Kid After-School program, Grace
Become a mentor and help end generational poverty by empowering families to succeed at school and in the workplace.
- LOCATION: Grace United Methodist Church, 458 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, GA 30308
- CONTACT: Kim Natarajan, director of Education
Welcome House
Lead a creativity night or game night to encourage residents to socialize and practice creative expression. Assist with a library redesign project or a gardening revitalization project. All new volunteers must attend a volunteer orientation.
- LOCATION: Welcome House, 234 Memorial Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30303
- CONTACT: Samantha Bolling, Director of Housing Services
Action Ministries Housing
Donate items for a welcome kit for families transitioning out of homelessness.
- LOCATION: Action Ministries Housing, 1700 Century Circle, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30345
- CONTACT: Katie Farmer, development
Athens - Northeast Region
Our Daily Bread Community Kitchen
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Sign up for 2018 Breakfast Dates
Sign up for 2019 Breakfast Dates
Provide a meal at Our Daily Bread. Breakfast is served at 8 a.m., and lunch is served at noon, Monday through Friday.
- LOCATION: Our Daily Bread, Athens First Baptist Church, 355 Pulaski Street, Athens, GA 30601
- CONTACT: Laura DeGroot, program administrator
GED/Adult Basic Education Tutorial
- Support local students pursue their education by being a tutor. Classes are M, T, and Th from 9:30 am- 11:30am.
- Location: 465 North Lumpkin St.
- CONTACT: Laura DeGroot, program administrator
- All GED tutors must be interviewed and commit to a 3 months of volunteering
Hospitality
- Support the work of Action Ministries Northeast by helping our office with supplies that make our client partners feel more at home
- Coffee
- Coffee filters
- Creamer
- Sugar
- Bottles of water
- Healthy Snacks
Smart Lunch, Smart Kid
Prepare and/or serve lunches to children in need during summer and school holidays.
- LOCATION: Northeast Georgia communities
- CONTACT: Your local SLSK coordinator
Augusta CSRA Region
Maxwell House
Provide donations to the Pathways Store at Maxwell House. Check out the most needed items here. We are also in need of Welcome Home Baskets for individuals and families moving into permanent housing. Please contact Danielle Meyer at dmeyer@actionministries.net or 706-699-0801 for a list of items.
Smart Lunch, Smart Kid
Prepare and/or serve lunches to children in need during summer and school holidays.
- LOCATION: CSRA communities
- CONTACT: Your local SLSK coordinator
Covington - Piedmont Region
Smart Lunch, Smart Kid
Prepare and/or serve lunches to children in need during summer and school holidays.
- LOCATION: Piedmont communities
- CONTACT: Your local SLSK coordinator or Tamara Richardson, regional development director
SuperPacks
Help fund SuperPacks, weekend meals for at-risk children. We welcome volunteers to write notes of encouragement and/or provide special treats at the Holidays to be added to SuperPacks!
- LOCATION: 2160 Church Street, Covington, GA 30014
- CONTACT: Tamara Richardson, regional development director
Adult Basic Education/GED tutors
Volunteer to tutor during daytime or evening classes
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program
Jan-March each year — seeking volunteers to assist in working with clients to prepare income tax returns.
Gainesville - Mountain Region
Serve as a case manager volunteer, answer phones or pick up food boxes at Feed the Hungry warehouse and bring to Gainesville.
- LOCATION: Action Ministries in Gainesville, 1 1st Street, Gainesville, GA 30504
- CONTACT: Samantha Bolling, Director of Housing Services
Smart Lunch, Smart Kid
Prepare and/or serve lunches to children in need during summer and school holidays.
Rome - Northwest Region
SuperPacks
Donate, pack and deliver backpacks containing four meals to children in need to feed them over the weekends. Deliveries take place on Thursdays and Fridays.
Food Pantries
Volunteer at our food pantries: Bagwell Food Pantry (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10-11:30 a.m.), Journey Evening Pantry (Thursdays, 4:30 to 6 p.m.) or Cancer Navigators Pantry (Mondays and Thursdays 10 a.m. until noon).
- LOCATION:
- Bagwell Food Pantry Warehouse, 207 East 19th St.
- Journey Evening Pantry, 15 Redmond Court
- Cancer Navigators Pantry, West Rome UMC, 1003 Shorter Avenue NW
- CONTACT: Dawn Hayes, program coordinator
Donations
Interested in donating food to the Bagwell Food Pantry? Looking to set up a corporate or civic food drive? Connect with Gary Chagnon, Operations Manager at gchagnon@actionministries.net.
Smart Lunch, Smart Kid
Prepare and/or serve lunches to children in need during summer and school holidays.
- LOCATION: Rome communities
- CONTACT: Your local SLSK coordinator
Smart Kid After-School program, Rome
Become a mentor and help end generational poverty by empowering families to succeed at school and in the workplace.
We’re so excited that Smart Kid After School Programming has started in Rome, and we need success coaches for our Smart Kids! Volunteers are needed to assist children with reading and homework on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All volunteers require a background check in order to work with children.
If you can’t donate time, no worries! Supplies are welcome too.
The following will help up accomplish our goals: flash cards, board games, puzzles, dice, glue sticks, safety scissors, color pencils, blocks and educational games, coloring books etc.
LaGrange - Middle Georgia
Volunteer in Middle Georgia
Volunteer in Middle Georgia! Opportunities include clerical work, fundraising, marketing, and helping partner with more food pantries and clothing closets
Corporate and Group Volunteerism
Life-Changers at Work
Americans spend half our lives at work, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to stay socially engaged with our communities and our world. We care deeply about issues like hunger relief, housing and education in Georgia. We care about our neighbors in need, and we want to make a difference where we live and work.
The folks at Action Ministries know your time and resources are precious. We make it simple–and fun!– for corporations and organizations to build strong teams through helping others. Create a specialized opportunity with us for your business, congregation, or civic group or plug in to one of our ready made opportunities above!
Click here to begin planning a volunteaming opportunity!
Feed the Hungry Warehouse – groups up to 50
Women’s Community Kitchen – groups up to 10
Superpacks / Snackpack build – groups up to 300
Volunteer Matching Gift Opportunities
If you volunteer with us, your company may also offer a volunteer grant program. Matching gifts and volunteer grants are an important source of revenue for the ongoing operation of Action Ministries.
