See Beautiful Grant Applicant: Community Bucket

The feature below is brought to you by Community Bucket, an organization that is in the running to receive a See Beautiful Grant. For more information about all of our giving initiatives, please click here. 

To learn more about Community Bucket, please visit their website page: here.

Service made social.

Community Bucket was started on a humid August day in 2012. We looked around at the vibrant, socially conscious community of doers and activists committed to making our city of Atlanta beautiful and wondered “how do we get involved?”

Atlanta, our original hometown, has countless wonderful organizations striving towards strengthening the local community. It also has many more transplants from all over the world searching for a way to meet new people and leave their mark on their new home. That’s why we created the Service Made Social movement—a way for volunteers to participate in a rewarding service experience that allows them to forge new friendships, make meaningful connections, and improve their local community — all within a few hours.

Here at Community Bucket, we focus on the "social" side of our program by connecting volunteers from all backgrounds and backstories to the nonprofits and organizations best suited to their goals. Our volunteers find a community and a connection to the place they call home. And as our volunteers flourish, so does our community.

Watching as everyone benefits through the weave of good deeds, fun memories and lasting relationships is truly beautiful in our eyes.

Community Bucket has brought the concept of Service Made Social to thriving communities in Atlanta, Austin, Denver, and New York City. Our volunteers add much-needed manpower to food banks, soup kitchens, urban gardens and much more. These men and women bring an infectious energy and welcoming spirit to every project we create. Volunteers are always looking for more ways to connect to the non-profit ecosystem in their communities. This is the niche that Community Bucket fills.

This year in Atlanta, we are partnering with four urban farms for a new and exciting project called FeedATL. Our goal is to leverage our volunteer base to alleviate the effects of food deserts in the local community on a larger scale than ever before. Metro Atlanta is home to many community farms and gardens, but they are often understaffed and under-marketed in their neighborhoods.

Our volunteers will log a total of 1,000 manpower hours over the course of 2020 through on-site projects that will be invaluable to our partner farms. In addition, we will help execute several community-based social events to help connect the farms to the individuals we serve. Community Bucket as a whole will promote these events and create enduring promotional materials that these vital members of the Metro Atlanta community can use to develop their own volunteer programs for the future.

We are beyond excited about FeedATL and every single project we are gearing up for this year.

At its core, Service Made Social is a commitment to the beauty within every individual we meet:

We find beauty in the volunteer who almost hits the snooze button on a rainy Saturday morning, but decides to serve with us instead.

We find beauty in the deeper, meaningful conversations and connections forged during our events.

We find beauty in people helping others.

With the efforts of many, we can all continue building a more beautiful community. And we invite you to join in on the fun!

If you share our vision of beauty, we would love to hear from you. You can learn more at www.communitybucket.com or email us at [email protected].

Submitted by Jesse Grossman

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