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2025 Day of Service Rebuild Event 

Project Kick Off

Dear Quadscore Associates-

Rebuilding Together is thrilled to be partnering with BlueSky Risk  to make improvements to GA Towns 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 435 hours of service equating to more than $14,500 of labor to improve the lives of low income seniors. In addition, BlueSky Risk has invested $35,000 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 and a community gathering place for residents living within the neighborhood.  Please join us on June 4&5 for the 2025 BlueSky Risk Day of Service to help "Repair Homes, Revitalize Communities, and Rebuild Lives."

About the Project

GA Towns Community Gardens

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 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. In response to the lack of fresh, nutritious food in Adamsville, local leaders formed the Adamsville Garden Coalition—a grassroots movement dedicated to transforming the neighborhood and giving access to fresh food through community gardens.  What was once a collection of abandoned lots blossomed into vibrant spaces filled with fresh produce, herbs, and flowers, providing hundreds of seniors and families with healthy food options.

These gardens are more than a source of nourishment; they are places of healing, connection, and learning. Seniors harvest fresh vegetables, children and teens discover the joys of urban agriculture, and the community gathers to share knowledge and support. Summer camps bring young people together to learn about gardening and nutrition, while therapeutic programs offer comfort to those facing mental health challenges. With 96 garden beds across four locations, the impact is growing, and today’s efforts will expand their reach even further.

Towns Gardens, founded in 2022, has quickly become a hub for education and community gathering. With 25 active beds, it serves as a learning space where youth explore gardening and healthy eating. Support from Team Depot will expand programming, create a welcoming entrance, and improve storage, making the garden an even stronger resource for the neighborhood.

THANK YOU to BlueSky Risk for your support of Rebuilding Together Atlanta. Your volunteer efforts today will be focused on the GA Towns Community Garden. Towns garden is community garden located on the ground of a former elementary school.  

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 4 and 5

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

• Garden planting 
• Trimming back branches and removal
• Fill beds with soil
• Trash pick up
• Set up for camp
• Build fence around garden
• Painting 
• Landscaping

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)  

• If you have been exposed to, 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 June 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!
• HYDRATE, HYDRATE, HYDRATE!

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 

Volunteer Waiver and Release of Liability  

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

Volunteer Waiver  

If you have any questions about this event leading up to or the day of the event, please contact Mike Orum morum@RebuildingTogether-Atlanta.org 612-232-2784 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.