Illuminate
We aim to highlight those people, organizations, and causes that often go over-looked or underfunded while also spotlighting the human side of larger issues that affect the lives of our community.
Organize
From monthly missions to Serve teams, Sleep Outs to benefit concerts, disaster cleanup to meals for our food insecure, our first responders, and our linesmen, Mission Change has spent over a decade organizing events that mobilize our city around a cause.
Volunteer
We make volunteering easy! Our missions are fun, hands-on, personally rewarding, and designed to illustrate how every single one of us can make a positive difference in the lives of those around us as well as ourselves.
Give
As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, we rely solely on the generosity of the individuals and businesses in the community we serve. Every gift - whether time, in-kind, or monetary - directly benefits the causes we support and the lives we work to change.
All Served. All Welcome.
Mission Change is a certified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization operated exclusively for charitable purposes in accordance with Georgia and Federal law. We are not affiliated with any one religion, faith, political persuasion, or other organized ideology. Just as community is not made up of any one type of person, persuasion, or belief, we don’t believe you have to be a certain way in order to help or deserve assistance. Community is made up of all of us. It belongs to all of us. Therefore Mission Change welcomes all beliefs, all walks-of-life, everyone to come participate in making the community a better place.
Change the World
From Your Backyard
Every few months Mission:Change sponsors a Local Mission designed to highlight various areas of need in the community and connect volunteers with the specific causes and organizations striving every day to serve them. From building affordable housing through Habitat for Humanity, to handing out food to the hungry through the Food Bank; from performing much needed maintenance at a homeless shelter for women and children, to simply spending a fun-filled Saturday with local under-served city children. Each mission is another opportunity to affect positive change in the world outside your door.
WANT TO SERVE?
Check out our Upcoming Events section below.
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Every June and July, Mission Change offers out-of-town groups an opportunity to come and serve in Albany, GA on a unique mission trip unlike any they’ve experienced before. Over the course of a week volunteering with various local causes and organizations, our Serve Teams not only help improve our local community, but – and just as importantly – learn how best to serve the people and institutions most in need within their own communities. Considering that the vast majority of groups sign up to serve again the very next year, it’s safe to say that lives are changing in Albany – not only those within our homeless community, our under-served youth, and our often-overlooked senior citizens, but just as much the ones doing the serving.
A Typical Day
Every morning, teams serve the community in a different capacity, including serving breakfast at the Salvation Army; doing crafts, exercise and lunch with the Council On Aging; cleaning up parks, graffiti, and beautifying the city through the Keep Albany Dougherty Beautiful campaign; organizing canned goods and packaging boxes for food insecure families at the FoodBank, among other service activities. Afternoons are generally spent in the park doing outside activities and crafts with under-served kids from the “projects,” many of whom attend Mission Change’s Village after school program. Evening gatherings allow our teams time to reflect on their day and share those things, big or small, that perhaps made them think differently about the people and community they served.
Summer 2022
June 6 – 10
June 13-17
June 20-24
July 11-15
WANT TO SERVE?
If you have questions, need additional information, or would like to book your team, please contact LaDonna at ladonna@missionchange.com.
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Mission Change
1101 N. Monroe St.
Albany, GA 31701
Make checks payable to Mission Change
LaDonna Urick
Executive Director / Co-Founder
ladonna@missionchange.com