Helping Mamas

Mayheu adapts work to COVID-19 needs

Jan Ruth Mayheu ’99, director of individual and community support for Helping Mamas in Atlanta, Ga., typically focuses on fundraising, applying for grants, strengthening relationships with donors and building relationships with potential supporters. However, the COVID-19 crisis has altered those duties. Now she’s unloading trucks, opening deliveries and distributing supplies to those in need.

Helping Mamas is a nonprofit that serves as the baby supply bank for Georgia. It has a four-person staff, and they’re working in shifts to remain open three days a week to get items to new and existing clients. “We serve over 30,000 individuals living in poverty each year,” says Mayheu. “We collect and distribute essential baby supplies and period products through partnerships with over 120 social service agencies, ministries, shelters and schools.” According to Mayheu, demand was higher than normal during COVID-19.

by Dudley Brown and Jo Ann Mitchell Brasington ’89

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