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For over 35 years and over 1,000,000 volunteers, we’ve been tackling our city’s biggest needs. Click or scroll to see the return on your investment in Hands On Atlanta.

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

impact by the numbers

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.

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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

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.

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