Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta

Smart Lunch, Smart Kid 2015

Looking for a meaningful way to serve this summer?

In Georgia, nearly 1 million children receive free or reduced-price lunches at school during the school year. In the summer, this crucial meal disappears, leaving parents scrambling and kids hungry. Action Ministries’ Smart Lunch, Smart Kid program provides sack lunches to thousands of North Georgia children every week in the summer, and they need volunteers to donate, assemble, and deliver lunches and enrichment to kids in need. This is a great opportunity for kids to serve other kids! SLSK coordinators in 17 counties, including Fulton, Fayette and Gwinnett, are organizing churches and volunteers now to Erase Hunger in Georgia (2015 SLSK Coordinators). Learn more about Smart Lunch, Smart Kid and sign up to volunteer online by visiting www.actionministries.net. If you can’t volunteer but would still like to help feed kids this summer, text LUNCH to 41444. Contact: Rachel Ruckart, lead program coordinator at 770-905-9191, rruckart@actionministries.net.

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Now is the time to act on the budget

From the GA Center for Nonprofits

Check out our Advocacy Toolkit for scripts and contact information.

What to do

Call your U.S. Representative and urge them not to accept the Senate version of the budget reconciliation bill without amendments that:
1. Protect vulnerable populations by restoring or preserving funding for food assistance, healthcare, housing, education, and childcare.
2. Avoid placing new, unfunded administrative burdens on states and nonprofits.
3. Retain programs that are essential to local jobs, services, and economic resilience in communities across your district, including Inflation Reduction Act funding.
Reach out to local officials to speak about the economic harm involved, and ask them to speak out against provisions that harm your nonprofit as an employer and contributor to the local economy.
Mobilize your network to do the same. Every voice counts!