Our History

Founded in 2019, Soul Supplies has grown from a single-person led group giving out a couple backpacks in a park to a nationally-recognized nonprofit serving people across the state with a five-person staff and individual distribution events consisting of over 300 backpacks and 14,000 supplies. We have remained entirely youth-led and have been fortunate to have received tremendous support along our journey, which has allowed us to truly make a difference in the community. We have raised over $25,000 for the unhoused in Atlanta, including grants from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Chick-Fil-A, and Whole Foods. With our funding, we have passed out over 75,000 supplies to unhoused communities. We have received coverage in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, FOX 5 News Atlanta, Marietta Daily Journal, and several other publications.

We have also continually expanded and strengthened out services in response to feedback from our homeless clients and community partners. For example, while we used to provide backpacks filled with a standardized set of supplies to the vast range of clients that we served, we now fill our backpacks with individualized supplies that cater to the unique needs of four different homeless subpopulations: unsheltered homeless individuals, sheltered homeless individuals, homeless individuals living in encampments, and youth experiencing housing insecurity. This change has allowed us to more effectively utilize our funding to serve our clients.