Volunteer

Livable Buckhead’s buckheadRUN! 5K

Load Truck for Livable Buckhead’s Annual 5K Run

Date: Fri, May 2, 2025

Time: 10:00AM-11:00AM

Description: We will be working together to load our organization’s truck, with supplies necessary for our 5K event, on Saturday.

Purpose: This is a positive team building event.

Role: In this role, participants will be assisting Livable Buckhead staff members in organizing and placing items into a vehicle.

Buckhead Run 5K 2025

Date: Sat, May 3, 2025 

Time: 6:30AM-11:00AM

Description: Livable Buckhead’s 7th annual 5K, returns on Saturday, May 3. A celebration of spring featuring our future sculpted petting zoo along the new PATH400 extension.

Purpose: Volunteers will have a positive impact on the community of Buckhead by physically supporting Livable Buckhead in the facilitation the event, and will joyfully encourage 5K runners to finish the race.

Role: Set up, check-in of participants, other responsibilities as needed. Load and unload truck.

Water Station/Cheer Squad – buckheadRUN! 5K 2025 – On PATH400

Date: Sat, May 3, 2025 

Time: 7:00AM-9:00AM

Description: Set up, distribution, and clean up, of the 5K water station. Cheer runners on

Purpose: You will make a positive impact on the 5K runners, by supplying them with water, and the encouragement they need to finish the race!

Role: You will meet with a small group of volunteers to set up, and staff, the 5K water station. You will clean up the area after the last of the runners have passed by.

Lifecycle Building Center

Mission: Strengthening communities through building material reuse.

About the Organization: Lifecycle Building Center’s mission centers on keeping usable construction materials out of landfills and redirecting them back into the community through reuse. Since 2011, LBC has prevented the disposal of 12 million pounds of building materials and generated over $5.5M in community savings by: 1) providing income-restricted homeowners near LBC’s Reuse Center access to these materials at an affordable cost and 2) donating free materials to nonprofits, schools and churches across metro Atlanta.

Activities include: unloading material donations, processing and moving inventory, organizing/cleaning materials, setting up material displays, material pricing, customer service, sales support and loading materials for customers. Must be 18 years or older, ability to execute construction work, heavy lifting, ability to work in unconditioned environments.

Location: 1116 Murphy Ave, SW, Atlanta, GA 30310

Live Thrive – CHaRM

Mission: Live Thrive’s mission is to empower people, organizations, communities and businesses to make positive, healthy and sustainable changes to the environment.

About the Organization: Live Thrive is an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization working since 2010 to create a community that cares about a healthy and sustainable environment. We started as a blog sharing sustainable efforts of individuals, communities and local businesses large and small. The Centers for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM) facilities are a premier program of the nonprofit, Live Thrive. With two permanent drop-off facilities that aim to improve our environmental health by encouraging reuse and diverting thousands of pounds of household hazardous waste and other hard-to-recycle items from Metro-Atlanta landfills and water systems. Both CHaRM locations also accept sorted single-stream items for those who do not have access. All operations expenses for the CHaRM facilities are paid from grants, sponsorships, donations and recycling fees.

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Open Hand Atlanta

Mission: To eliminate disability and untimely death due to nutrition-sensitive chronic disease.

About the Organization: Founded in 1988 by Michael Edwards-Pruitt, who rounded up his neighbors to help cook and deliver meals to friends dying from AIDS, Open Hand Atlanta expanded its mission in 2000 to include those with non-HIV-related critical illnesses, the disabled, and the homebound elderly. Today one of the largest community-based providers of home-delivered meals and nutrition services in the United States, the organization prepares, packs, and delivers nearly five thousand meals a day and collaborates with more than a hundred partner organizations.

Volunteer opportunities available for individuals include:

• Meal Packing
• Meal Delivery
• Meal Delivery Concierge
• Culinary Assistance
• Special Events
• Administrative Support

Location: 181 Armour Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30324

Clean Walks

Join the Clean Walks team for a community cleanup. Clean Walks meets at a different location in need each month

Eligibility: Ages: 4+

Purpose: Another area of our communities needs to be cleaned. Let’s clean up our community and have a blast doing it! Join us for 90 minutes of exciting fun. Together, we’ll make our neighborhood shine.

Role: Trash pick up

Time: 9:00-10:30am

Leveraging volunteers to support our mission, increase overall impact and create more advocates.

Hands on Atlanta Volunteers

• 203 Participants in 2023
• 124 New Participants in 2023
• 480 hours
• Valued at $14,000

Corporate Partnership Volunteers

• Over 120 Volunteers adding an additional 480+ hours
• Atlanta Classical Academy, Salesforce, Simon Property Group, Cousins Properties, Hyatt Centric
• Most events took place on PATH400 to raise awareness of the trail

Corporate Volunteer Events

What types of corporate volunteering opportunities exist for your company?

Employee volunteering can be difficult to organize, as it’s heavily dependent on company size and scheduling. But ultimately, volunteering can have huge benefits for company culture, as it gives your employees an opportunity to build bonds while giving back to their community. In fact, a study by Cone Research found that 74 percent of employees say their job is more fulfilling when it provides them opportunities to make a positive impact.

Whether your a large office looking for a large-scale project such as mural installation, or a smaller organization which can help with invasive vegetation clearing or anything in between, Livable Buckhead can tailor a volunteer opportunity to your specifics in a way that will give back to the Buckhead community. Connecting with a Livable Buckhead staff member is the first step in crafting a custom corporate volunteer experience. Click the button below to get started.

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