Your generosity becomes food, dignity, and hope.
Every number represents a neighbor, a family, or a moment when compassionate support made the week a little easier. Together, we are helping ensure that no one in our community faces hunger alone.
WHAT
WE DO.
At Never Alone, we bring food and other household items into our warehouses, process them, and then make them available to our neighbors in need. But it is more than peas and carrots that we seek to give to our guests – we strive to be a safe space for our neighbors to come to, to feel welcomed, accepted, and encouraged and to leave with more than groceries… to be lifted up and given a sense of hope.
Once food is received, it is weighed, checked for freshness and safety and stored in temperature controlled coolers, freezers or ambient warehouses. Our warehouses and processes follow Serv Safe controls and are audited regularly by the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Temperatures are checked prior to pick up, during the pick up, after unloading at the time of putting food away. In this way we keep food safe throughout the transport and storage.
Our incredible Volunteers along with volunteer groups from area businesses and community organizations will pack boxes of food for distribution or stock the shelves at the pantry.
As Guests come through the community distribution and through the pantry, they can pick up a variety of healthy foods to bring home to their families. Our community distributions are possible only due to amazing volunteer groups and churches who meet us on Saturday mornings. Our driver loads up our refrigerated truck with food items and brings it to a remote location such as Hasty Elementary, Full Life Church, Waleska UMC, and Revolution Church in Jasper where the volunteers unload the pallets of food and set up a drive through pantry. Volunteers register guests in their cars, and load food into their cars as they come through, sharing encouraging hugs and warm smiles to welcome our neighbors who have been waiting in line.
Our supply comes from a variety of sources. Atlanta Community Food Bank, of which we are an affiliate, supplies us with food and manages our assigned connections to the various retail partners.
1. We can purchase food from Atlanta Community Food Bank. Trucks of food are delivered to our warehouses in Ball Ground and Woodstock.
2. We pick up items from assigned retail partners such as Costco, Sam’s Club, Sprouts, Target, Whole Foods, Walmart, Aldi’s, using one of our three 26’ refrigerated trucks.
3. We also receive food through private donations from area businesses, neighbors, and through orders from Amazon.
4. Additionally we receive food from our partners at Convoy of Hope, who deliver truckloads of food that are in excess at their Cartersville warehouse.
In two hours, over 250 families can be provided 13,000 lbs of food.
Additionally, community partners stop by weekly to pick up food we collect that help them reach their guests and provide for their needs. Examples include Isaiah 61:1 who pick up food to bring to their clients in jail ministry, The Woodstock Rotary Club, who pick up food items to distribute to seniors living in low income housing and Turnaround Kids organization who shops for all their food needs at Never Alone to help nourish the children they lovingly care for. Any food not useable is picked up by local farmers who use the food to feed their animals. As families stop by the pantry, we have a community board available to them they can use to obtain referrals to other community organizations that can help them with other challenges they may be facing. Every person has a story and each one is important to us. We want to wrap each of our guests in care, help reduce one concern they have with the food we can offer, and be part of their journey to a better situation.
1,010,932
Meals Provided
36,686
People Served
19,075
Volunteer Hours
1,213,117
Pounds Distributed
ANNUAL REPORTS
& FINANCIALS.
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Never Alone is committed to using every gift responsibly and sharing clear information about our programs, finances, and results. Review our latest reports and governing documents below.