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Superheroes

The Brave and the Bold

Saving the day in not-so-little ways

Dragon Con Superheroes

The Dragon Con Superheroes is a community service project team for our members, volunteers, and staff to give back to our local community. Since 2014, Dragon Con Superheroes have contributed more than 3,100 hours to Atlanta-area non-profits.

Projects have included packing and sorting food items for the Atlanta Community Food Bank, maintaining trails at Sweetwater Creek State Park, working the Walk to End Lupus Now, building community gardens with the ACFB, supporting the Lymphoma Walk, cleaning and spreading mulch in Piedmont Park, a school supplies drive and backpack packing event with For the Kid in All of Us, a toy drive and bingo event with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, delivering more than 8,500 books to Literacy Action and supporting their Friends and Family day, giving a woman’s shelter a top-to-bottom spring cleaning for Partnership Against Domestic Violence, and hosting a booth for athletes and families with the Special Olympics of Georgia. In all, about 290 Dragon Con fans and their family members have volunteered on the Superheroes projects.

In celebration of our Superheroes’ contributions to the community, we will again host an exclusive celebration during the 2019 convention. Additionally, all Dragon Con Superheroes participating in this year’s projects will receive a free Superheroes t-shirt designed by the talented Dave Cook.

Have questions? We have answers!

Event 1: Dog Park Mulching and Park Maintenance with Piedmont Park

We are happy to return to Piedmont Park to help clean up one of Georgia’s most popular parks, located in the heart of Atlanta. The Superheroes will be helping mulch the dog parks and clean up the trails along the creek near the dog parks. Children are welcome (and encouraged) to attend but must be of middle school age to work on the mulching project. Be sure to wear closed toed shoes and be ready to scoop and spread mulch. Other projects may include pruning trees, minor landscaping/planting, removing litter from the park, etc.

Thanks to everyone who came out to help keep Piedmont beautiful and the pups happy!! What a wonderful day for our Superheroes.

Important Information:

  • When: November 3rd
  • Where: Piedmont Park
  • Time: Check in begins at 930a / Service lasts from 10a – 1p

Event 2: Supporting Open Hand Atlanta

Join the Dragon Con Superheroes as we partner with an organization new to our Superheroes but near and dear to the hearts of many Atlantans, Open Hand Atlanta. Open Hand helps people prevent or better manage chronic disease through Comprehensive Nutrition Care, which combines home-delivered meals and nutrition education as a means to reinforce the connection between informed food choices and improved quality of life. The Superheroes will work to prepare and package meals, as well as pack market baskets.

Thanks to all our amazing superheroes who came out to volunteer, we were able to pack 1429 meals and 155 pantry bags, vegetable bags, and fruit bags.

Important Information:

  • When: February 9th
  • Where: Open Hand Atlanta, 181 Armour Drive, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30324
  • Time: 9a – 12n / Check In Begins at 845a

Event 3: Sorting and Packing Medical Supplies with MedShare

Join the Dragon Con Superheroes as we partner with an organization new to our Superheroes but near and dear to the hearts of many Atlantans, MedShare. MedShare is a 501c(3) humanitarian aid organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people, communities and our planet by sourcing and directly delivering surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need around the world. MedShare helps increase health system capacity and drives sustainability by providing biomedical equipment training and service to healthcare organizations and medical professionals serving populations in need. MedShare’s deliveries of vital medical supplies and equipment have decreased our nation’s carbon footprint and brought health, healing and the promise of better lives to 100 countries and countless patients.

In this project, we will have a rare opportunity to save lives through sorting and packing medical supplies. Our volunteer session will include a tour of the facility, an orientation on how to identify, sort, and re-box medical supplies, and a short wrap-up sharing the countries that will receive the supplies we package, the total number of boxes created, and the number of pounds of product sorted during our session.

This project does have an age restriction of 13+. Anyone between the ages of 13 – 18 needs to have a chaperone join them for the event.

Important Information:

  • When: June 22nd
  • Where: Open MedShare, 3240 Clifton Springs Road Decatur, GA 30034
  • Time: 1p – 4p / Check In begins at 12:30p

Superheroes Enrollment

Thanks for your interest in joining the Superheroes as we partner with Open Hand Atlanta to pack, sort, and deliver meals to Atlantans in need.

Please note, this project is our largest opportunity to date. Please feel free to invite friends and family to join in this great event to help others (and have a whole lot of fun doing it).”

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