BCM Georgia Receives $50,000 Emergency Grant from Fulton County for Community Food Assistance
In the heart of one of Georgia’s wealthiest counties—home to more than a million people, filled with trees amidst growing businesses and gleaming office towers—hunger and the fear of eviction exists quietly throughout our neighborhoods.
Fulton County is a place of contrasts. While midtown and downtown Atlanta pulses with energy and Buckhead’s skyline keeps rising, thousands of low-income working families with children live one emergency away from crisis. This is the hidden face of poverty in our community: not always visible on the street corner, but very real inside apartments dotted all over the county.
At BCM Georgia, formerly known as Buckhead Christian Ministry, we serve low-income working families everyday who are struggling. Roughly one in three of the more than 3,000 individuals we serve each year depend on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits to fill their bellies. These are not statistics— they are our neighbors: the home health aide who cares for your grandparents, the cashier who rings up your groceries, the waiter serving your dinner, the single mother racing between two jobs before picking her children up from school.
For these families, SNAP is the difference between a modest dinner or skipping meals altogether. It is the thin margin that allows a parent to keep working, children to stay in school, and a household to remain stable.
When uncertainty around the funding for SNAP grew this fall, anxiety rippled through our communities. More than 145,000 residents here rely on these benefits, including tens of thousands of children. For many working-poor families, the question stopped being “What’s for dinner?” and became “Will there be dinner?”
That is why the news out of Fulton County this November felt like answered prayer. BCM is honored to be a part of the nonprofit partners to receive emergency grants to support families needing food assistance.
Most importantly, it means hope. Even the local news covered this story.
Hidden food insecurity and housing instability do not discriminate by zip code. They live quietly in every corner of the county. But when government, nonprofits, and community step up together—as Fulton County has done with this historic investment—the safety net becomes stronger, wider, and more humane.
At BCM, we are deeply grateful to live in a county that refuses to look away from need.
If you are a family living in Fulton County AND receiving SNAP benefits and would like to sign up for additional food assistance, please apply here. You will need to upload several documents and BCM's case managers will work with you to ensure you have additional food resources.
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