At last month’s Run for Wishes 5K at Atlantic Station, Tiffany Brennaman, Michael “Dr. Foot” Scott, and Andrew Hayes of Back on My Feet Atlanta talk about the organization “dedicated to creating independence and self-sufficiency within the homeless and other underserved populations” through running. 

WABE’s Charles Edwards reported on the launch of the Atlanta chapter last November.

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“We’re using things that people already have to help people that have nothing.”

Continuing our profiles of organizations working to help others around the city, Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta Operations Manager Courtney Hodges talks about the organization, its mission, and how their work affects the lives of the people they serve. 

Drew Benton talks about Project Live Love, “a non-profit organization designed to influence culture through love in action by engaging, networking and mobilizing people who are motivated by love.”

We recently recorded an event held to benefit the Metro Atlanta Faces of Homelessness Speakers’ Bureau, which took place at Community Grounds Coffee House in Atlanta on March 15, 2012.