23rd Annual Essentials Drive
April 1 - 30, 2024
Here’s how you can help! Donate:
• Diapers (All Sizes & Pull-Ups)
• Unscented Baby Wipes
• Feminine Hygiene Products
• Adult Diapers
• Funds (used to purchase diapers and wipes)
All donated items will be delivered to HomeAid Atlanta’s service provider partners (listed below) serving families with infants and toddlers experiencing or at risk of homelessness - just in time for Mother’s Day.
Click HERE to find a donation drop-off location near you!
There are over 20 metro Atlanta drop-off locations welcoming your donations from April 1 - 30, including several SouthState Bank locations, D.R. Horton communities, the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association, Consruction Resources, and Round Trip Brewing. Click here for the donation closest to you!
Prefer to shop online?
Click buttons for Amazon & Target baby registries - donations ship directly to us!
WHY the Essentials Drive?
An estimated 4,770 people in metro Atlanta experience homelessness on any given night and almost 35% are women and children. HomeAid recognizes how challenging it can be for families and individuals to provide for their most basic needs during times of crisis and transition. Babies can go through 8-12 diapers a day, and the average monthly cost of diapers for one child is $80. Families experiencing homelessness or economic hardship may have to improvise to make diapers last longer, changing diapers less often, or even attempt to clean and reuse disposable diapers.
Thanks to the support of metro Atlanta’s home building industry and generous community members, the Essentials Drive has collected more than 2.1 million baby items, assisting countless families since 2002.
Help us achieve our goal of 300,000 baby items this year!
Where do my donations go?
In 2024, HomeAid Atlanta will distribute your Essentials Drive donatons to these metro Atlanta organizations providing housing and/or services for families in need:
Atlanta Children’s Shelter | Atlanta Mission | Blessings Working Together | Family Empowerment | City of Refuge - South | Crossroads Community Ministries | The Drake House | Decatur Cooperative Ministry | Gateway House | Helping Mamas | Mothers Advocacy Project | Motherhood Beyond Bars | Nicholas House | North Fulton Community Charities | Our House | The Salvation Army Metro Atlanta | The Salvation Army Red Shield Services | Serenade Heights | Solomon’s Temple Foundation | Wellroot Family Services | Women’s Resource Center
Questions?
Contact Cecily Stevens, HomeAid Atlanta Marketing & Development Manager: cecily@homeaidatlanta.org | 678.775.1451
These companies and organizaitons are supporting the 2024 Essentials Drive!
Juneau Construction Company
Vincent Longo Custom Builders
SouthState Bank
Pinnacle Financial Partners
Construction Resources
CBRE
Professional Women in Building Atlanta Chapter
Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association
Franklin Street
Sutter McLellan & Gilbreath
Timberlake Cabinetry
Cherokee County Homeless Veterans Program
NterNow
Davidson Homes
BankSouth Mortgage
Westlake Royal Building Products
Northwest Exterminating
Loren Homes
Lennar
Northview Church
Ashton Woods
Taylor Morrison Atlanta Division
Project Linus Bartow & Cherokee
Meritage Homes
CHOA- Technology Dependent ICU
DR Horton Atlanta West Division
SouthState Correspondent
Round Trip Brewing Company
David Weekley Homes
Denim Marketing
Atlanta’s Best New Homes
Big 10 Alumni of Atlanta
HB NEXT
Coldwell Banker Realty
HomeTrust Bank
Smith Douglas Homes
North Georgia Brick
Why the Essentials Drive?
“HomeAid’s donation of diapers and wipes has been critical for the many moms that we serve. We partner with a school for children experiencing homelessness, and many of the mothers have younger children in diapers. Most live in shelters or hotels and have little access to these resources. Those with income have difficulty covering all their expenses, so any free essential can mean the difference between choosing to buy diapers or see a doctor. Others have no income and often have to leave infants in dirty diapers as long as possible to make them last.”
— Crossroads Community Ministries
“We send a sincere THANK YOU for the amazing items donated to DCM as part of the Essentials Drive! Year after year, HomeAid Atlanta and its supporters have continued to surpass our expectations and we consider HomeAid to be one of our greatest allies in the fight to alleviate homelessness in metro Atlanta.”
— Decatur Cooperative Ministries
"It was like Christmas morning! The timing was perfect for this donation. We were out of Pull Ups and size 6 diapers and had several requests for them. The Essentials Drive donations allowed us to fill those requests. We were very low on wipes as well, so again perfect timing. We will be able to keep serving so many babies because of HomeAid Atlanta!”