Open Hand Atlanta: from project to major service organization

My guests for this show are Jordan Flowers, Donor Relations Manager and ShawanAllen, Director of Volunteer Services.

Project Open Hand was founded by Michael Edwards-Pruitt in 1988 when he and a few of his neighbors cooked meals for 14 friends with HIV/AIDS who were too sick to cook for themselves. It was truly an act of love, and very much a “project” – a small, grassroots group committed to making a difference, however small, in the community.

Open Hand now prepares and delivers over 4,500 meals a day, employ a full-time staff, provide nutrition education from licensed dieticians be consistently recognized as one of the most innovative, visionary and fiscally responsible nonprofit organizations in the country?

Open Hand is a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive nutrition care and nutrition education for a diverse population of men, women and children with unique nutrition needs. Programs and services are designed to help clients meet their personal goals and objectives for good health and to assist clients and healthcare providers in the early identification and treatment, as well as the prevention or progression of many nutrition-sensitive illnesses.

Open Hand seeks to eliminate disability and untimely death due to nutrition-sensitive chronic disease. They serve our community by empowering people to live healthier, more productive lives.

DONATIONS: Talk About Hope's show host, Wesley Cole, is a licensed real estate agent with Keller Williams. Refer someone who buys or sells a home and he will donate 10% of any transaction referred to him in your name to Open Hand. No tax credit but the recognition is yours. Details at www.AtlantaCityLife.com