Impact Report 2024 - StreetWise Georgia Inc

12-Month impact:

A look into the heart of StreetWise

What makes StreetWise Special?

Is it its standing as the

2nd Largest

food bank

in Gwinnett County

and the

5th Largest

of

773 Agencies

in the Atlanta Community Food Bank network?

impressive — but no.

...is the volume at which StreetWise serves?

The

1,680,370 pounds

of food distributed to clients — which equals 1,409,308 MEALS

the more than

4,000

clients served

through its dignity shopping (client-choice) market

the

39,950

articles of clothing provided

How about the

501 Working Families

who attended the new Thursday night Working Families Pantry

or the

103 families

who attended the first-ever Christmas store, chose and bought

863 gifts

This impact is immense, but that’s not the most special part of StreetWise.

Maybe it's the variety of people touched by StreetWise's work

30,000+

individuals in 8,000+ families

10,000+

children

(not including the 1,300 families served through seven Title I school events)

58 teens who regularly attended TeenWise@StreetWise events

widows who meet for events and programs and

3,000+ seniors

who will soon have their very own food delivery program through StreetWise!

Surely the most important part is the

dozens of families

who graduate from StreetWise’s program and become self-sufficient.

As celebration-worthy as this is, that’s not it either.

could it be the partnerships and people who make StreetWise possible?

After all, more than 70 corporate donors support StreetWise financially and through supplies for events — including food retailers and the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

Not to mention, more than 70 nonprofits partnered with StreetWise for events and 15+ churches support its work.

That’s especially notable when you remember that everything StreetWise does is through JUST 6 STAFF and an army of volunteers —
that is, 40,529 hours of volunteer work (with an estimated value of over $1.3 million)

and the average weekday volunteer is 70 years old.

What about the $5.5 million in value of food and supply donations, not to mention monetary support, given to StreetWise?

The 467 attendees at its second-annual gala, which raised $255,555 and funded the installation of their courtyard canopy, truck and additional cooler and freezer?

Is it the more than 210,938 people engaged through StreetWise’s social media accounts?

That must be it… right?

Even their incredible blessings aren't what makes StreetWise Special.

It’s how StreetWise budgets for prayer — and trusts God to show up in it, even dedicating a portion of the building to a chapel.

It’s that StreetWise meets — both staff and volunteers — every day for prayer time.

It’s that every client at every event StreetWise hosts is offered prayer.

It’s the modern-day miracle of Jesus’ work multiplying the fish and loaves. And it’s only possible through a very big, very generous God.

As a result of HIS work, tens of thousands of prayers have been lifted up, thousands have heard the gospel and