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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 4,300 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, hosting a booth for athletes and families with the Special Olympics of Georgia, packing books for Books for Africa, and donating supplies for and filling hundreds of support bags for CURE Childhood Cancer. In all, over 400 Dragon Con fans and their family members have volunteered on the Superheroes projects.

In celebration of our Superheroes’ contributions to the community, all Dragon Con Superheroes participating in this year’s projects will receive a free Superheroes t-shirt. Additional benefits and recognition are given for Superheroes Superstars volunteering regularly with the team.

If you would like to be on the list to be the first to hear about these awesome events and grab coveted spots before they fill up, please sign up for our Superheroes Mailing List below.

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Event 1: Supporting Atlanta Community Food Bank

Join the Dragon Con Superheroes as we partner with Atlanta Community Food Bank working in The Hunger Action Center. The Hunger Action Center provides a great hands-on experience in a diverse and social atmosphere. Groups and individual volunteers come together to inspect, sort, and pack quality grocery donations to prepare for distribution to nearly 700 partner agencies across Georgia.

With 1 in every 9 Georgians at risk of hunger, the number of people requesting emergency food assistance continues to grow. If every volunteer visiting our Hunger Action Center brings just two cans of food, we could provide about 2,750 additional meals each month!

*Please consider bringing as many nonperishable items as you can! You’re already making a tremendous difference by volunteering. Think how much that can be magnified by grabbing a couple of food items to bring with you when you come! We’re always in need of natural peanut butter, canned chicken, and canned fruits & vegetables. Click here for our full list of most needed food items.

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Thank you for your interest in the Dragon Con Superheroes. This event has filled to capacity. Please keep an eye on this website for additional projects to join us.

Important Information:

  • When: 830a – 1130a, January 11
  • Where:  3400 N Desert Dr, East Point, GA 30344

Event 2: Making Valentines and Greeting Cards for Open Hand Atlanta

Join us as we flex our creative muscles making a limited number of valentines, tons of general inspirational greeting cards, and decorating bags for our long-term partner Open Hand Atlanta.

If you are unable to join, please feel free to send in valentines/general cards or bring them by the office at 5044 Clark Howell Highway, Atlanta, GA 30349 no later than February 1. We are looking for quality over quantity – these trinkets should be hand made and include sentiments meant to lift the spirits of their clients.

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Thank you for your interest in the Dragon Con Superheroes. This event has filled to capacity. Please keep an eye on this website for additional projects to join us.

Important Information:

When: 12n – 3p, February 1st
Where: Dragon Con Office

Event 3: Lauren's Run with CURE Childhood Cancer

Lauren’s Run & Picnic was inspired by two special girls named Lauren, who each battled cancer. The event carries on today in each of their memories. Janis and Marvin Zagoria started Lauren’s Run at Zoo Atlanta in 1994 in memory of their daughter Lauren, who died after a courageous battle with neuroblastoma. A few years later, the Zagorias were joined by Heather and Gil Kochman, who lost their daughter, also named Lauren, to the same cancer. Together the two families have continued leading this inspirational event along with many long-time volunteers and families who participate year after year.

Since those early days, hundreds of families have gathered to walk and run in support of CURE, raising more than $5.8 million for lifesaving pediatric cancer research.

After the race, participants, as well as families diagnosed with childhood cancer, join together for the CURE Annual Picnic. The CURE Picnic is a day unlike any other! Dozens of games, prizes, elaborate face painting, enormous inflatables, music and dancing, arts and crafts, a full lunch, and so much more.

Several volunteer opprortunities are available:

  • Inflatables
  • Carnival Games
  • Food Distribution
  • Arts & Crafts

In addition to walk volunteers, CURE Childhood Cancer is looking for cosplayers (several princesses, superheroes, and popular movie characters) to roam the picnic,  walking around and engaging with the children and their families. We love all Superheroes, Princesses, Power Rangers, Story Book Costumes, Star Wars, X-Men, etc. Since this event is put on for the patients and families that we serve, we do kindly request that the costumes are kid friendly. We will review all submissions and coordinate to avoid duplicate costumes.

Come out and support one of our very favorite charity partners and get a glimpse into their incredible mission.

Registration will open March 23rd.

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Important Information:

  • When: 9a – 12n, April 26th
  • Where: 4 Concourse Parkway NE, Atlanta, GA US 30328

Event 4: Hope Atlanta

Join us as we support our official 2026 charity parnter, Hope Atlanta.  Hope Atlanta is Georgia’s longest-standing nonprofit committed to preventing and ending homelessness with 125 years of service beginning in 1900. They help clients obtain housing and achieve security and stability by working alongside them and connecting them to the resources they need to achieve self-sufficiency.  Hope Atlanta offers a comprehensive approach to street outreach, housing support, homelessness prevention, and hunger relief, working hand-in-hand with clients, providing comprehensive services and wraparound support.

The Superheroes will meet at Hope Atlanta’s Community Center to pack kits for residents of The Melody. Once the kits are assemploed, we will head to The Melody to deliver the kits and take part in an on-site activation/project.

Stay tuned for details on kit items for donation and sign up opening April 1st.

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Important Information:

  • When: May 2nd
  • Where: Hope Atlanta Community Outreach Center / 458 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30308
  • Time: 10a – 2p

Event 1: Supporting Open Hand Atlanta

Join the Dragon Con Superheroes as we partner with our long term partner, 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.

Open Hand has recently moved to an AMAZING new facility that will eventually be able to serve even more Atlantans through their hard work and commitment.

Projects to include:

  • Meal packing
  • Market basket packing
  • Van washing
  • Campus beautification
  • Cards for clients
  • Gardening and exterior beautification

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Thank you for your interest in the Dragon Con Superheroes. This event has filled to capacity. Please keep an eye on this website for additional projects to join us.

Important Information:

  • When: 9a – 12n, November 9
  • Where:  1380 West Marietta St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

Event 3: MedShare

Volunteers help improve the quality of life of people and our planet by helping to sort, identify, and package critical medical supplies that will be shipped to underserved communities in the US and around the world.  The Superheroes will be participating in two packing sessions – 9a – 12n and 1p – 4p in order to accommodate as many volunteers as possible since there is a maximum of 20 volunteers during each session.

Our three-hour volunteer sorting sessions take place at MedShare, 3240 Clifton Springs Rd, Decatur, GA 30034. They will provide an orientation and training at the start of the session, so volunteers will need to arrive on time.

All volunteers must wear closed-toe shoes and comfortable clothing that they don’t mind getting dirty. Carpooling is encouraged, but if driving is necessary, they offer free parking in front of the building. Volunteers should enter through the door marked “Volunteer Center” on the far-right side when facing the building.

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Thank you for your interest in the Dragon Con Superheroes. This event has filled to capacity. Please keep an eye on this website for additional projects to join us.

Important Information:

When: May 11th, 9a – 12n OR 1p – 4p
Where: MedShare, 3240 Clifton Springs Rd, Decatur, GA 30034

Event 5: Books For Africa

Books For Africa was founded upon a singular mission: to end the book famine in Africa. BFA collects, sorts, and ships books, computers, tablets, and library enhancement materials to every country in Africa.  They supply varied, relevant books in English, French, and national languages, computers and tablets with digital content, specialty post-secondary materials, and supplies to create vibrant learning spaces.

Please note, volunteers must be at least 14 years old and be wearing closed-toe shoes. Volunteers will sort and pack books according to category and age level. No heavy lifting is involved but we will be standing for most of the time.

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Thank you for your interest in the Dragon Con Superheroes. This event has filled to capacity. Please keep an eye on this website for additional projects to join us.

Important Information:

When: 9:00a – 11:00a, May 20th
Where: Books For Africa Warehouse-Georgia, 1491 Cobb Industrial Drive, Bldg. B, Marietta, GA 30066