Joy Community Kitchen

We want to make the lives of vulnerable senior citizens better by supplying them and their caregivers with high-quality, nutritious, appetizing, and convenient food. In 2023 we will begin frozen meal delivery to residents of senior and transitional housing. We will also continue to serve hot fresh-cooked meals at partner sites as opportunity and resources allow.

We serve everyone. We all need to eat.

We are a Georgia Department of Agriculture-licensed manufacturer of frozen foods, with our production facility at PREP Kitchens Atlanta. Our biggest production and delivery constraints are funding and labor.
To address these constraints in FY 2023 we will:
1) Continue to refine and extend our marketing efforts to
a) Tell more people about Joy Community Kitchen and what we do through online channels.
b) Recruit individual and corporate donors.
c) Build credibility and partnerships with other organizations that address food insecurity in the Atlanta metro.
2) Join community organizations like the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce to build out our network of relationships.
3) Continue optimizing our procurement, production, and delivery process to reduce our cost-per-meal and
increase production and delivery.
4) Get one or more refrigerated delivery vehicles to allow onsite safe delivery of our meals and (planned) meal
ingredients.

Joy Community Kitchen began as a church-hosted hot meal preparation service. While continuing to prepare
and serve hot meals, we operated a client-choice food pantry—in partnership with the Atlanta Community
Food Bank—for 6 years. In 2020 pandemic restrictions led us to transform into a Georgia Department of
Agriculture licensed manufacturer of frozen foods. We began delivery of microwaveable frozen meals in
January 2021.

Our growing base of service and support partners, and our wonderful volunteers, make the Joy Community
Kitchen vision and mission a reality. We want to do more, and we are in this for the long haul.

Founder and CEO Marty Donnellan is also Joy Community Kitchen’s Chief Vision Officer. In the late 1990s she
began developing her ideas for high-quality food services for underserved people, and acquiring the
knowledge and skills needed to achieve her vision. In the first decade of the 2000s she began working in
church foodservice operations and gained the practical experience that enabled her to launch Joy Community
Kitchen.

Director of Communications and Technology Mike Donnellan graduated from Georgia Tech in 1991 with an
honors degree in Information and Computer Science, and from UGA’s Terry College of Business in 2007 with
an MBA. He has over a decade of experience in professional nonprofit data management and analytics, and
over 30 years’ experience in corporate information technology. In February 2021 he joined Joy Community Kitchen full-time after almost 10 years’ participation as a donor and part-time advisor.

We can do this, because we're already doing it successfully.

Joy Community Kitchen has served our community since our founding in 2012. The IRS designated us as a
501(c)(3) public charity in 2013.

Joy Community Kitchen began as a church-hosted hot meal preparation service. While continuing to prepare
and serve hot meals, we operated a client-choice food pantry—in partnership with the Atlanta Community
Food Bank—for 6 years. In 2020 pandemic restrictions led us to transform into a Georgia Department of
Agriculture licensed manufacturer of frozen foods. We began delivery of microwaveable frozen meals in
January 2021. As of mid-July 2022, we have delivered well over 1,200 frozen meals, and served 360 hot meals
onsite in response to requests from selected service partners, all free of charge this year. We measure our
success by meals served, populations served, partner satisfaction, volunteer success, and client delight.

Without community support we cannot do what we do. In 2021 many individual and organizational partners in
service and support came forward to help.

• Microsoft, Walmart, QuikTrip, and Kroger provided monetary and/or in-kind donations.
• Graystone Church provided financial support and encouragement.
• Atlanta Community Food Bank, StreetWise Georgia, and the Lawrenceville Co-Op provided operational
and material support.

All these partners and others, such as the Jackson EMC Foundation, have joined with us to support our work in
2022. Hands of Christ Duluth Co-Op joined us as a distribution partner in Spring 2022. Most recently, COO
Doug Marranci of our production facility PREP Atlanta has partnered with us to find ways to recover fresh
ingredients, that might otherwise have been wasted, for inclusion in our meals. US Foods’ Sean Palani and his
crew the Atlanta Guys Dinner Group have offered their help. We are deeply grateful to all our partners and
individual donors who believe in us and trust us to use their donated time and resources to serve our clients.