You Don't Know Me: Support Intown Cares

As part of our final project at Toomer Elementary School, we studied homelessness - especially who is homeless and why it happens. After talking to Michael from Intown Cares, we decided that you can't judge a book by its cover - you never know what is going on with someone until you get to know them.

So we made this video! If you enjoyed it, please support Intown Cares in all the great work they are doing for people living on the streets.

Intown Cares is the nonprofit that goes the extra mile to help Intown Atlantans meet their most essential human needs – food and housing. We specialize in serving neighbors who have the hardest time getting housing transition to their own homes. And we provide easy access to food for any who need it.

1. Housing First is our model for helping people transition from a long period of living outdoors to moving into their own homes. This model places permanent shelter at the start of the journey to a new life – not a culmination of meeting other criteria.
2. Similarly, we provide food for the next several meals to those who need it, without conditions or requirements – because hunger should not be an obstacle to other steps that lead to better days.

Persistence drives us. The people we employ, the process we follow, and the perspective we share are all guided by a single, unifying idea: solving hunger and homelessness requires imagination, flexibility, and a willingness to take the extra step.

OUR STORY

Intown Cares is a longtime champion and ally to Intown Atlantans in great need. We were founded in 2010 as Intown Collaborative Ministries, a cohort of congregations that provided and operated a food pantry. Over the years, our mission expanded – we began helping those who have long lived on Atlanta’s streets find permanent housing.

Today, Intown Cares still receives vital support from our original congregations, as well as from government grants, foundations, businesses, community partners and individual donors. People from all walks of life are needed to address the great complexity of homelessness and hunger. With them – with you – we are determined to succeed.