our impact

1,179

Mission in the City has dedicated over a thousand hours to serving our community in our focus areas of Food Insecurity, Homelessness & Affordable Housing; Immigrants and Refugees and the Environment.

Pantry Items - 2,885+

Sandwiches - 1,007

Snack Bags - 153

$14,000+ of food donated 

In addition to collecting items to stock food pantries and making snack bags and sandwiches for the homeless, Mission in the City provided lunch for the residents of Nicholas House homeless shelter during our day on site working with the children and on improving the shelter.

Mission in Macon

• $400 in food to address food insecurity in its community
• 30+ items of clothing

4 Refugee Families

Helping to furnish apartments and providing household necessities

• Clothing - 390+ items
• Furniture
• Bedding
• Kitchen & Household Items

Partnership with Creativity Camp

• Arts and crafts
• Dozens of soccer balls and recreational items
• Books, games, toys

Project for Nicholas House

• Decorating stepping stones and creating a path to the garden

Mission in Macon

• Books donated to the Free to Read program and Dolly Parton Imagination Library

The Circular Economy

• GA is 2nd in the nation for recycled manufacturing materials
• Educated the community on daily recycling and the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials 
• Too many recycling items to count!

Protecting our Waterways

• Too many items of trash to count pulled from the Chattahoochee River!

Our Ideas for New Projects

• Community gardens in food deserts
• Healthy cooking classes
• Recycling competitions to educate and promote recycling
• Sports equipment drive for shelters
• Writing campaigns to legislators on affordable housing
• "Reverse" garage sale: people put out what they want but instead of selling it they can donate and people being rehoused can take items they need; can create an online platform for this, too!