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2024 Day of Service

Project Kick Off

Dear Quadscore Associates-

Rebuilding Together is thrilled to be partnering with BlueSky Risk  to make improvements to Collier Park Community Garden in the Adamsville. This project is part of Rebuilding Together's Community Revitalization efforts within the Adamsville neighborhood in SW Atlanta. 

Since 2022, BlueSky Risk/Quadscore has partnered with Rebuilding Together Atlanta to rebuild homes and communities in low income senior focused nieghborhoods across Atlanta. These repairs directly improve the homes and communities where low income seniors live, work, and play. BlueSky employees have volunteered more than 355 hours of service equating to more than $12,000 of labor to improve the lives of low income seniors. In addition, BlueSky Risk has invested $29,000 in funding for projects that improve the quality of life of residents.  Partners like BlueSky Risk are key to the private and public partnership required to support safe and healthy homes & communities in Atlanta.

THANK YOU for volunteering with Rebuilding Together-Atlanta. We could not do our life changing work without YOU. You will be supporting the Community Garden Iniative in the Adamsville neighborhood of SW Atlanta. Your work will provide fresh and healthy food options to local senior residents, that are living in a food desert.   Please join us on June 11&12 for the 2024 BlueSky Risk Day of Service to help "Repair Homes, Revitalize Communities, and Rebuild Lives."

About the Project

Collier Park 

Since 2021, Rebuilding Together-Atlanta has been partnering with local community leaders in the Adamsville neighborhood to rebuild homes and revitalize the neighborhood. In addition to providing safe, healthy, affordable homes, RTA’s comprehensive approach also focuses on improving the health and safety of neighborhoods for every resident. Our efforts are holistic in nature and create safe and healthy neighborhoods where residents can live, work, and play.
 

Adamsville is among the nation’s lowest income communities in Atlanta and across the United States. Many households do not own a car and are reliant on public transportation for basic needs. Because of this, many residents often face food insecurity and live in a “food desert” without access to healthy and fresh food options within a mile of their home. Local community leaders have faced these challenge(s) head on through innovative coalition efforts. Local leaders have set a goal of establishing a community garden within 2 blocks of every resident living in Adamsville. This grassroots movement (Adamsville Garden Coalition) has worked diligently to build and establish a network of community gardens across the neighborhood. The gardens have transformed the neighborhood. Once blighted and abandoned lots are now blooming with fresh food options, herbs, and flowers. Each year these gardens provide 100’s of local senior residents and families with access to fresh produce and healthy food options. Currently, the neighborhood has 96 garden beds at 4 locations.
 

THANK YOU to BlueSky Risk for your support of Rebuilding Together Atlanta. Your volunteer efforts today will be focused on the Collier Park Garden. Collier Park garden is an open-collective community garden located within a local City of Atlanta park.  As the Adamsville community is considered to be a food-desert, the overall mission/goals of our community leaders includes creating/developing access to fresh fruits/vegetables, encouraging healthier lifestyles, and establishing neighborly camaraderie which encourages community pride, a direct impact on the food production at the gardens, enhancing the pollination and aesthetics of the garden for community residents In addition to providing food, the gardens serve as a gathering place for community residents. The gardens not only grow food and flowers is grows community. Residents often work alongside volunteers to plant, weed, and harvest. In the gardens, strangers become friends, neighbors become family. Soil sisters and brothers are born. Each day, local senior residents walk to the gardens to harvest their food for the week.

Thank you for your time and commitment to Rebuilding Together Atlanta, and providing low income seniors with a safe and health community to live, work and play. We look forward to seeing you on June 11 and 12. 

Please consider donating to help Rebuilding Together Atlanta serve  the 100's of homeowners that need safe and healthy homes and communities. Each day, RTA gets a phone call from a homeowner in need, and each day the waiting list gets longer. Together, we can improve the housing stock in the metro area and provide legacy residents with the safe and healthy homes that they deserve. 

All donations go directly to making home repairs to seniors and veterans in need living in the Atlanta metropolitan area. 

About Rebuilding Together-Atlanta 

• Rebuilding Together Atlanta part of a national network of more than 120 affilates  and the eading national nonprofit organization repairing the homes of people in need and revitalizing our communities.
• The work of Rebuilding Together makes homes safer and improves the health of our neighbors.
• Rebuilding Together works proactively and collaboratively with community leaders, long-term residents, funders and volunteers to foster dialogue and create safe, healthy communities.
• The work of Rebuilding Together has been proven to improve mental and physical health, increase safety and independence, and foster community connection and economic security for neighbors receiving repairs.
• Rebuilding Together helps level the playing field by supporting your neighbors: seniors, veterans, the marginalized, people with disabilities and victims of natural disaster living in historically underserved communities keep their greatest asset: a safe and healthy home.
• Our services transform neighborhoods into vibrant places, igniting pride, dignity, generational wealth, and opportunity at a time when our communities need it the most.

Run of Show for the Day (subject to change based on task completion)

8:50 Arrival (registration, light breakfast, coffee, nametagsetc.)

9:00am  Project Kickoff

9:15am  Volunteer Group Photo

9:30am  Work begins 

12:00pm Clean Up

12:30pm Depart Project Site

Work Scope

• Remove existing garden beds
• Build new garden beds 
• Fill beds with soil
• Plant vegetables/herbs into gardens
• Park clean up 
• Build fence around garden

Water

Coffee/Light Breakfast

Snacks

Needed Tools and Materials

What to Bring-

Work Gloves

Dress for the Weather

Your favorite tools, if desired (please label)

A Smile and Lots of Energy

Important Safety Information- (we need to protect each other and our homeowner)

• All volunteers must follow the most recent CDC guidelines.regarding COVID-19. 
• As the Covid-19 infections raise, we will adjust guidelines.  
• General rule of thumb is that when working around a homeowner and not able to maintain social distancing guidelines, volunteers should be wearing a mask.
• If you have been exposed to COVID-19, test positive, or are showing symptoms of an illness, please do not attend this event. 

Proper Clothing

Volunteers should dress comfortably, but appropriately, for a hard day’s work. This is a construction site so please make sure to be protected. Guidelines for dress include:

• Work boots or no-skid, thick-sole shoes. No sandals or open-toe shoes.
• Dress for the weather. Be comfortable, protected, and safe! It is April in Georgia. Think cool mornings, Warm afternoons. Dress in layers. 
• Please wear necessary safety equipment including tool belts, safety goggles and helmets when appropriate.
• Please wear clothes that are appropriate to get dirty- as they will get messy!

Parking- 

There is a street parking available around the home.

When possible, please try to ride share to limit traffic on local city streets.

Do not leave valuable items in your car 

Do not block driveways when parking on the street. 

ALL VOLUNTEERS MUST  REVIEW AND SIGN : (for volunteers under 18, please have parents review & sign)

Volunteer Waiver and Release of Liability  

By signing up to volunteer, you are agreeing to all terms in the

Volunteer Waiver  including  abiding by social distancing,  and PPE requirements. 

If you have any questions about this event leading up to or the day of the event, please contact Nichelle Mitchem nmitchem@RebuildingTogether-Atlanta.org 301-908-5760 or Marcus Smith msmith@rebuildingtogether-atlanta.org 404-931-3727

Watch this video to learn more about Rebuilding Together and how your work improves lives.