Racham, LLC works together with a variety of local businesses and organizations that allow us to evaluate our clients in their work environment while doing volunteer work for the company. This unique opportunity allows us to evaluate our clients in different types of work environments with different tasks to better see what supports will be needed if competitive employment is considered. We are truly grateful for our community partners and their spirit for helping individuals with disabilities become competitively employed. The following is a brief list of some of the organizations that work together with us to help better the chances of long-term success for individuals with disabilities.
Atlanta’s Finest Catering
Atlanta’s Finest Catering is a catering and event planning company that serves Metro Atlanta and has been working with Racham for many years. They have previously been featured on TLC’s reality show entitled Catering Wars and cater approximately twenty events a week. Their main facility is located in Winston, GA where they allow Racham to come in and perform the following duties:
- Assist with food prep
- Assist with event set-ups at main location including setting ups tables, chairs, table linens and center pieces
- Wash dishes and food coolers
- Organize storage warehouses
- Wash and sort table linens for events
- Clean facility including the kitchen, restrooms, main event area and parking lot
- Clean and organize flatware for events
- Sort sugar packets and coffee supplies for events
- Refill, clean and organize salt and pepper shakers
Please contact Lorie Bomar for reference. Email: loriebomar@hotmail.com / Work: (404) 535-1965
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Office
The UGA Cooperative Extension office in Pike County has been working with Racham for over a year allowing them to come in and perform the following duties:
- Label envelopes with addresses and return addresses
- Sort and number newsletters
- Fold newsletters for mailings
- Organize supply closets
- Clean facility including kitchen area, sweep/mop/vacuum floors, office areas and activity room
- Count and sort other paperwork for students
- Other duties as requested
Please contact Helen Carter for reference. Email: helenc@uga.edu / Work: (770) 567-2010
Woodie Fite Senior Center
- Assemble birthday bags for seniors; count and roll change
- Clean facility including fitness center, common areas, kitchen, activity rooms, restrooms and banquet hall
- Work in garden including deadheading rose bushes, digging up plants, splitting plant bulbs, planting flowers and plants, pulling weeds, placing and maintaining bird feeders
- Put up and tear down holiday /seasonal décor
- Set up tables and chairs for events
- Prepare special event invitations
- Other duties as requested
Please contact Autumn Bridgers for reference. Email: abridgers@co.douglas.ga.us / Work: (678) 626-5630
10:10 Thrift Store
- Sort incoming donations; determine clothing and other items to keep and distribute to correct area
- Tag, price and hang up children’s, men’s and women’s clothing items
- Sort donated books into correct genre
- Assist with moving furniture and other items onto sales floor
- Clean and refurbish donated items for sell in thrift store
- Clean the restrooms and employee break room
- Load and unload items to/from box truck as necessary
- Other duties as requested
Please contact Macy Dennis for reference. Email: m.dennis@xroadschurch.net / Work : (770) 286-8091
Pike County Senior Center
- Clean facility including fitness center, reading room, arts and craft room, restrooms, kitchen, banquet hall and all common areas
- Clean outside of the facility including sweeping the parking lot, sweeping the sidewalks, washing the windows, raking and removing debris from yard
- Organize arts and craft supplies, books, tapes , magazines and DVDs as needed
Please contact Rhonda McDougal for reference. Work: (770) 567-3857
Zebulon United Methodist Church
- Fully clean entire church facility including the worship center, office, classrooms, children’s rooms, kitchen and fellowship hall. Cleaning duties include sweeping, mopping, dusting, washing windows, vacuuming, picking up trash, taking out trash and replacing all trash bags, sanitizing restrooms, sanitizing children’s toys, washing dishes, organizing pantry, organizing classrooms and craft rooms.
Please contact Carol Scroggs for reference. Phone: (770) 378-2806
Lowe’s Home Improvement
The Human Resource Managers at various Lowe’s locations partner with Racham to provide a variety of services:
- Interviewing training and one-on-one mock interviews with clients
- Building an effective resume training
- Mock Orientations
Contact varies depending on location. Please inquire for further details.
One Roof Ministries Food Bank and Thrift Store
- Stock and face shelves in the food pantry and rotate items by date
- Pull and bag food for the needy according to lists
- Unload and sort donations for the food pantry and thrift store
- Clean and refurbish toys for sell in thrift store
- Sort and hang up children’s, men’s and women’s clothing
- Organize storage trailers and perform general janitorial duties
Douglas County Parks and Recreation
- Wash and detail Douglas County Park’s fifteen passenger and wheelchair accessible vans
- Assist with upkeep of parks; spread mulch in playgrounds to meet safety requirements
- Perform general janitorial duties to maintain the cleanliness of park buildings and facilities
Habitat for Humanity Restore
- Assemble bookshelves, screened doors, light fixtures, beds, etc.
- Sort, bundle, and price wood trim and crown molding
- Price items for sale
- Arrange stock in warehouse and on sales floor
Troup County Agriculture Center
- Yard work including maintaining the flower beds
- Clean event facility before and after events
The Active Life Recreation Center
- Wash windows
- Assist with set up and tear down for events
- Clean tables, chairs and other areas as requested
Crossroads Church Douglasville
- Clean and sanitize all toys, tables, chairs, doors and restrooms in children’s learning areas including ten medium sized classrooms and three large children centers.
- Perform general janitorial duties including cleaning three sets of restrooms , washing windows and vacuuming common areas and hallways.