Every week, your gift puts a hot meal in the hands of an Atlanta family facing hunger, handed over with dignity, through a door that never closes. One person at a time.
Our mission: to nourish communities, empower families, and create pathways to stability by providing food assistance, connecting individuals and families with caring community partners, and expanding access to the resources and opportunities they need to thrive.
Fayth Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit feeding families across Metro Atlanta, one person at a time. Every week we put nutritious food and real resources into the hands of people facing hunger, through community food distributions, local partnerships, and outreach that meets people right where they are.
We've seen what a full plate does. The neighbor who was too embarrassed to walk into a pantry. The family that had little to nothing, and got a delivery right to their door. That's the work: not just food, but food handed over with dignity, and a door that never closes.
Next, we're taking it to the streets. We're building a mobile food pantry to bring fresh food straight into the underserved neighborhoods that need it most, so nobody has to figure out how to get to us. We'll come to them.
Compassion, dignity, integrity, accountability. For us those aren't words on a wall, they're how we show up. One meal, one neighbor, one day at a time.
Charles and Ricketa Atkins were entrepreneurs who couldn't unsee it, the men, women, and kids going hungry across Atlanta. So they didn't wait for permission. They cooked meals in their own home, paid for it out of their own pocket, and drove food all over downtown Atlanta until they'd fed hundreds.
What started at their kitchen table is a full-time mission now. Same two neighbors. Same reason.
people are homeless on the streets of Atlanta on any given day, facing hunger without a reliable next meal.
families in our community live with food insecurity, going without enough to eat every single day.
Local programs help, but it still isn't enough. That gap is exactly where Fayth Foundation goes to work.
Every photo here is a real day on the ground: packed pantry tables, grocery bags loaded for delivery, and hot meals assembled by hand for neighbors who needed them.
We're raising $50,000 to put a mobile kitchen on the road, so a fresh, hot meal can reach neighbors wherever they are. Every gift moves us closer, and 100% of it goes to the work.
Charles Atkins grew up on the Northside of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Black Wall Street. Even as a kid, he understood he was standing on ground that had once held the wealthiest Black community in America, ground that had also seen it burned to ashes and rebuilt through sheer will. That history shaped him. It taught him that community isn't just a word, it's something you protect, rebuild, and pass on.
He graduated from McClain High School and went on to study at Langston University, Oklahoma's HBCU, where he got even more grounded in the idea that we rise by lifting each other. In 2004, he packed up and moved to Atlanta to chase a basketball scholarship at Georgia State. Basketball brought him there, but it was Atlanta where he met the love of his life, his wife, Ricketa. They've now been married for more than 20 years, and she's been his partner in every version of this journey since.
Not long after they said "I do," they started Fayth Management, a commercial cleaning business, building something of their own from the ground up together. That experience taught Charles how to run something real, payroll, contracts, showing up every single day, lessons that would matter more than he realized.
Because all of it, Tulsa, Langston, Atlanta, marriage, entrepreneurship, was preparing him for what came next: Fayth Foundation. He started this organization because he kept meeting families who were one bad week away from an empty refrigerator, and he couldn't shake the feeling that showing up for people shouldn't be complicated. It should be as simple as a warm plate, a familiar face, and someone saying, "I've got you."
That's what Fayth is built on. They provide food assistance, but more than that, they build bridges, connecting families to the community partners and resources that can carry them from surviving to stable. Charles has sat across from parents doing everything right and still falling short, and he's watched what happens when someone finally has backup. It changes people. It changed him.
Charles's work isn't about charity in the traditional sense. It's about family, the kind you choose to build around people who need one more person in their corner. He is still building this organization step by step, brick by brick, family by family. But the mission hasn't moved an inch since day one: nourish the body, strengthen the community, and make sure hunger doesn't get the last word.
Ricketa Atkins is the co-founder of Fayth Foundation, and her passion for this work didn't start with a nonprofit, it started at nineteen, the day she stepped into the healthcare system and began a career that would span two decades of caring for people at their most vulnerable. Twenty years of showing up for patients taught her something she already knew in her bones: people don't need pity, they need presence.
Ricketa was raised on the west side of Atlanta, Georgia, where she was shaped early by the woman she calls her greatest influence, her beloved grandmother. Before she passed, her grandmother left her with words Ricketa has carried every day since: no matter what you're going through, you help the next person, if you expect any blessing from God or a higher power, that's the price of admission. That single piece of wisdom became the compass for Ricketa's entire life, in healthcare and beyond.
She has been married to Charles Atkins for more than 20 years, and together they've built every chapter of their life side by side, from a business they started early in their marriage to the foundation they now lead together. But it's her four beautiful children who gave her the clearest sense yet of why this work matters. Watching them grow, she couldn't shake the worry so many parents carry, are they truly ready for what's ahead? That love, and that worry, became purpose. It's what led her to start Fayth Boys and Fayth Girls, a program built to give young people the everyday essentials of survival and self-sufficiency that too many are never taught, so they can walk into adulthood equipped, confident, and whole.
For Ricketa, Fayth isn't separate from who she's always been. It's the fullest expression of it: a mother's love turned outward, a nurse's compassion turned into a mission, and a grandmother's wisdom passed down to an entire community, a life spent believing that help isn't optional, it's owed to whoever needs it, whenever they need it.
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Volunteer With Us →Charles and his wife and family are heaven sent. I had little to nothing to eat and they delivered groceries right to me and my kids. I had tears in my eyes. They made me feel like family.
I was scared and too embarrassed to go to a food pantry. All I did was call, and it was that simple. I'll never forget how they made me feel, like talking to a friend.
I couldn't believe how much food they blessed me with when I fell on hard times. They never made me feel like just another number, they're small, and that makes it personal.
Your donation buys groceries, fuels deliveries, and brings the mobile kitchen closer. Every dollar goes to the work.
Donate Now →Drop off pantry items, help pack and deliver, or bring your family out for a serve day. We'll put you to work.
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