About Us

Creating Meaningful Impact

Since our launch in 2018, the team at Uplift Community Outreach has worked tirelessly to promote our cause. We are fortunate to have volunteers and staff from all walks of life who bring their unique expertise and resources into everything we do. This is what enables us to achieve our goals year after year.

Uplift Community Outreach has fought to feed the hungry and provide supplemental income to families in need. Our vision is a future free of families being hungry and families being able to have enough income to meet basic needs.

While there is always more that can be done, there is no doubt that we are making a significant impact. We don’t measure our success through just facts and figures, but through happy faces and heartwarming feedback. See how you can become part of the difference.

Our Mission

The mission of UPLIFT is to engage, empower, and work with our community to improve the lives of hungry, homeless, and underprivileged families and children. We are committed to providing not only immediate assistance but also long-term support and opportunities for growth.

At UPLIFT, we recognize the importance of education and literacy in breaking the cycle of poverty. We believe that every child deserves access to quality education and the chance to develop essential literacy skills. To achieve this, we focus on educational support initiatives that empower underprivileged children and families.

Our programs aim to provide educational resources, tutoring, and mentorship to help children succeed academically. We collaborate with local schools, educators, and volunteers to offer after-school programs, homework assistance, and enrichment activities. By promoting literacy, we aim to equip children with the tools they need to thrive academically and expand their future opportunities.

Additionally, we work towards eliminating extreme poverty by fostering community engagement and self-empowerment. Through skill development workshops, vocational training, and entrepreneurship programs, we aim to equip individuals with the necessary tools and knowledge to create sustainable livelihoods and realize their full potential.

Through our initiatives, we strive to instill a message of hope, love, and inspiration in underprivileged children and families. By addressing their immediate needs, providing educational support, and empowering individuals, we believe in creating lasting change that uplifts communities and transforms lives.

Stand with us against food insecurity

Uplift Community Outreach is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Through strategic communications, we work to change public attitudes about feeding the homeless or needy families. We want to reduce the number of hungry families as well as families in debt.

We are passionate and experienced advocates with a more than 5-year track record of leading and supporting families in need of resources and services in Leon County.

We’re making incredible progress against hunger:

We are giving out pounds of food each month. Uplift is providing over 125 pounds of food each month to needy families.

But the battle against hunger is far from over:

Thousands of Leon County residents are struggling with poverty. Every day families are searching for free services that offer help to thrive in society. For all of that demand, there are only a handful of organization in the area that are exhausting all their resources each month. It is clear that more agencies are needed to ensure the needs of the underprivileged are being met.

Food insecurity is also a common complaint from students at the nearby university and promised zone areas, as these are areas full of low-income families. We are convinced that there is a great marker opportunity here for a non-program organization offering food, holiday assistance, counseling and family services near campus and promise land areas.

The reason for homelessness in Leon County is a scarcity of affordable housing. Often, low-income families may become homeless due to unexpected financial circumstances: loss of a job or medical issue that prevents the family from maintaining stabling housing.

To add, extreme poverty and personal vulnerability is reasons there is homelessness in our community. People experiencing poverty can become homeless because of unemployment, low wages or the lack of available, affordable housing. Many low-income individuals have personal vulnerabilities that place them at risk of becoming homeless which include, substance abuse, mental illness, medical problems, domestic violence, prior evictions or poor credit, or a criminal background.

There are significant barriers for families trying to escape homelessness which include criminal offenses such as these, and certainly more serious convictions, can make it difficult to pass a required background check when trying to rent permanent housing. Additionally, certain felony convictions make it difficult to obtain a bed in an emergency shelter. Likewise, prior evictions and poor credit can make it difficult to rent decent affordable housing. In addition to these challenges, in Leon County, there is a shortage of affordable and safe housing and job opportunities that provide a decent living wage.

Uplift Outreach works to fill the gap of hungry, homeless, and underprivileged people,via a collaborative approach — addressing the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of our clients.

Our remarkable progress shows that we can win the fight against hunger. Uplift Community Outreach is unyielding in our resolve and committed to finishing the job.