Agape Atlanta

 

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Agape empowers and supports underserved families within its community to discover, embrace, and achieve their full potential.	charity by donating to receive a shirt during registration.
Agape achieves this mission by providing academic support and family services focusing on character development, academic achievement, reading proficiency by third grade, successful high school graduation, and post-graduation placement.

Agape is a 501c3 nonprofit organization serving a community that includes more than 2,000 school-age children from under-served families. Agape serves 200 children each day, providing after-school programming and family services that focus on character development, academic achievement, reading proficiency by third grade, high school graduation, and post-graduation placement.

Students in Agape’s programs receive 947 hours of programs and services each year. This deep investment in each child’s life, over the course of years, changes the trajectory of each child’s life and points them in the direction of their heart’s desire.

High school program students are with Agape for an average of eight and a half years.

Students who remain in Agape’s programs through 12th grade have a 98% high school graduation rate.

Once graduated, 20% gain employment, 40% enroll in vocational school, and 40% enter college; these students are the first in their families to ever attend college.

 


Programs that Agape offers for their community:

Ginger Kaney Mentoring Institute for High School Students

The GKMI is a readiness program for high-school students that promotes graduation from high school while teaching life skills, expanding social development, and ensuring exposure and access to post-secondary options.

Staff for the high school program focuses on successful graduation and post-graduation planning and placement. Since 2009, Agape has proudly maintained a 95% graduation rate. After graduation, 20% of our graduates gain employment, 40% attend vocational school, and 40% enter college. This program addresses several important issues regarding teen development and potential barriers towards their success.

Ragtime: Day Program for Seniors

RAGTime (Recreation, Activities, and Games) is a day program offered to senior citizens and disabled adults in the community. There are 61 local residents enrolled in the program, with 35 attending on any given day. In partnership with the Carl Sanders YMCA, seniors participate in water aerobics and other physical fitness activities two days a week.

This program keeps local seniors and potential shut-ins socialized, active, and vibrant!

Extreme Bedroom Makeover

In learning more about our families, Agape discovered that many of the children in our programs had little to no furniture at all.  Agape’s Extreme Bedroom Makeover began in 2010, with volunteer teams providing new paint, new bedrooms, and a whole new outlook for 196 children in need and counting! EBM has won the Carl V. Patton President’s Award for Community Partnership from Georgia State University.

Great Backpack Giveaway
Each year, Agape collects and distributes new backpacks filled with school supplies for 2,400+ under-served students in the community. We hope to team up with you this year to make this event a huge success. 

Summer Camp

Over the summer, Agape provides 8 weeks of enriching summer camp experiences. Camp JumpSmart is an academic preparatory camp for rising Kindergarten-2nd Graders focusing on reading comprehension and math basics. GoGirlGo! & FIT Camp provides active lifestyle-based camps for rising 3rd-7th grade boys and girls. Elevate is our teen camp through which rising 8th-12th graders experience outdoor adventures, college tours, and participate in finance & entrepreneurship courses.

Holiday Gift Store
Join us for the annual Agape Holiday Gift Store, which, in partnership with you, provides gifts for over 600 children from under-served families each year. Our gymnasium will transform into a winter wonderland store staffed by volunteers for two days of “shopping”, gift wrapping, holiday music, cheer and most of all hope.



You can also support the 2025 Annual Conference charity by donating to receive a shirt during registration.

Watch the video below from the Agape website to learn more about their mission and the families they serve.