Thank a metro Atlanta Health Care Provider

In an effort to engage community members of all ages, Hands On Atlanta is teaming up local hospitals and offering a turn-key letter-writing campaign. Take a minute to thank and send gratitude to healthcare professionals working around the clock to keep our city healthy and safe.

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How it Works

1. Grab a card, postcard or piece of paper for the letter - don't forget an envelope!

2. Write your letter or letters, there's no limit to how many you can do!

3. Take a video or picture of your letter encouraging others to join and share on social media using #writesomethinggood

4. Mail your letter!

Mail Your Letters

• Grady Health System

  C/O Leigh Reece, Office #1C122 80 Jesse Hill Jr Drive Atlanta, GA 30303

• Northside Hospital

  C/O Imann Ostien, Marketing 1000 Johnson Ferry Road NE Atlanta, Georgia 30342

• Piedmont Atlanta Hospital

  1968 Peachtree Road, NW Building 1984; Human Resources department Atlanta, GA 30309

• Wellstar Foundation

  805 Sandy Plains Road, Suite 100 Marietta, GA 30066

Letter Writing Tips

• Start with a salutation, such as "Dear Healthcare Provider" or "Dear Healthcare Hero".

• Share a personal thank you or gratitude for their work like "Thank you for your service to keep our city healthy" or "We are grateful for your service and hard work".

• Please avoid glitter or additional items in the envelope.

• Please mail all letters to addresses provided above.

• Purchase and print stamps from home or have them delivered from the US Postal Service.

Host a Virtual Civic Dinner

Now more than ever, it’s vital that we come together. Social distancing doesn’t have to mean social disconnection. The team at Civic Dinners has built a new feature to allow for people to come together for meaningful conversations, group happy hours and family gatherings, to reconnect around what really matters.

Take advantage of social distancing’s best apps (FaceTime, Google Hangouts, Zoom, Facebook, Slack, etc.) and rally around the dinner table to have an important conversation by hosting a virtual Civic Dinner!

Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice (Virtual)

You're invited to join Equitable Dinners on Aug. 16 for a frank talk about race equity and housing, especially during a pandemic crisis. Enjoy a short play written by Dana Stringer, followed by intimate conversations in small groups.

Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice is a free, live, monthly conversation series featuring art, experts, and an opportunity to connect with your neighbors locally and around the world to talk about race and equity. 

Join us one Sunday a month from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm through September 2020, we will hear from a new expert, watch a 10-minute play written for the event, and join together in conversation. 

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Needed: Facilitators and Virtual Hosts

Facilitators help guide the conversation and virtual hosts call each person that has registered to welcome them to the movement. We will train both facilitators and hosts. Please consider volunteering!

Help students with their Scholarship Research Process

The Scholarship Academy (TSA), is a nonprofit founded by a recipient of over $200,000 in scholarships, teaches low- income and first-generation high school students how to create realistic college funding strategies.

Through in-school curriculum modules, financial aid counselor trainings, and access to an innovative scholarship planning platform, The Virtual Scholarship Center, we connect students to local/state-based scholarship resources that enable them to pursue debt-free degrees.

How it Works

1. Students sign up for virtual office hours via their virtual scholarship center account

2. Based on availability and interest, volunteers (you) will help students:

   • Understand their Financial Award Letter

   • Identify additional private aid

   • Re-negotiate their financial aid packages

   • Edit scholarship essays

Use Your Skills to Support Star-C

Please join Star-C as we continue to keep our kids educationally engaged. STAR-C’s mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals in affordable housing communities and stabilize local schools by stabilizing rents and providing academic support and other wraparound services.

We would love volunteers who can help us with a project that includes virtual activities for our kids. This will help STAR-C students by providing necessary academic support, engaging content, and safe activities for students to complete independently or with their families while they are unable to physically attend the STAR-C After School Program where they would have normally had this type of engagement. 

Volunteers can provide the following virtual videos: 

• Simple Yoga demonstrations

• Simple Meditation demonstrations

• Children Exercises

• Reading Books aloud (reading different chapters each day/weekly series)

• Cooking demo (healthy snacks)

• Arts and craft videos (step by step instructions)

• Trivia

• Family games (instruction on how to play different games that are family related)

• Gardening videos

Please send your videos and contact information to Keya Oates@keyaoates@tristarinvest.com. You can also reach me at 404-668-3949.

Send a Thoughtful Note to InCommunity

InCommunity provides care and support to those with developmental and intellectual disabilities (IDD). They recently had to close down their day programs due to COVID-19. The day programs were a consistent part of their individuals’ routine where they saw their friends, interacted with the community & arts, and practiced daily living skills. With “shelter in place” and a shift in routine, it is an adjustment for all.

Those in their programs and in our residential group homes still need care and support from us. Their InCommunity members would love to hear from you during this challenging time! Help spread the love. Send a thoughtful note to those who are still working hard to support individuals in their homes and to those who are being cared for who long for a sense of normalcy. Taking a moment to say thank you or sending a note to say we appreciate you can go a long way!

How it Works

1. Grab a card, postcard or piece of paper for the letter - don't forget an envelope!

2. Write your letter or letters, there's no limit to how many you can do!

3. Take a video or picture of your letter encouraging others to join and share on social media using tagging @incommunityga

4. Mail your letter!

Mail Your Letters

• InCommunity

  3301 BUCKEYE RD, SUITE 700

  ATLANTA, GA 30341

  ATTN: Daniel David

Letter Writing Tips

• Start with a salutation, such as "Dear friend” or “Greetings”

• Share a personal message with an individual in our home: “You are not alone. We are in this together” or “Hang in there. We hope you are safe and healthy.”

• Please avoid glitter or additional items in the envelope.

• Please mail all letters to address provided above.

• Purchase and print stamps from home or have them delivered from the US Postal Service.

#FlattenTheCurve and Download How We Feel

How We Feel lets you self-report your age, sex, ZIP code, and any health symptoms you experience. It only takes 30 seconds!

Aggregate data is securely shared with select scientists, doctors and public health professionals who are actively working to stop the spread of COVID-19. The app doesn't ask you to sign in or share your name, phone number or email address.

The first time you download the app and donate your data with a check-in, we'll donate a meal to people in need through Feeding America—up to 10 million meals.

How can I get involved?

‍Apply to be a scientific collaborator
‍collaboration@howwefeel.org

Volunteer or join
‍volunteer@howwefeel.org

Make PPE for Health Care Providers

Join Atlanta Beats COVID,  an ad-hoc group of volunteer makers, engineers, fabricators, seamsters, and other Atlanta-area industry experts that are working to provide our hard-working healthcare providers and other vital members of our community with the necessary PPE that they need to stay safe while battling COVID-19 

Atlanta Beats COVID is recruiting the following types of volunteers and donations:

• Volunteers to Make/Print Face Shields

• Volunteers to Sew Face Masks and Gowns

• Volunteers for Cutting and/or Assembly of Face Shields (4 hour shifts available around metro-Atlanta)

• Drivers for Pick-up and Drop-off Materials and Completed Product  

• Materials Donation

• Logistics Support

Check out approved patterns here: https://www.atlantabeatscovid.com/diy