Our Work
The Race for Grace serves as a youth-led public health and community service organization focused on reducing barriers to care through direct service, research-informed outreach, and regional partnership. Our work connects communities with nutritional access, educational support, and dignity-centered care, while giving students the opportunity to lead real public health action.
Since our founding, we have supported 1,500+ individuals through direct service, mobilized 55+ student volunteers, gained over 375,000 social media viewers, and completed 1,475+ volunteer service hours through drives, outreach events, and community-based initiatives. We have also secured over $10,000 in program investment funds, including a $5,000 major donation and our first $4,000 grant award, allowing us to expand the scale and sustainability of our work.
Through the Community Care Network and Grace National, The Race for Grace is now building a regional service model across eight Service Regions. With this growing network, our goal is to support 10,000+ students and families across the Southeast through targeted resources, youth-led research, and community care programs that strengthen stability, resilience, and access to essential support.
Grace National
Grace National is the regional expansion of The Race for Grace, created to strengthen public health and community resilience across the Southeast through a connected youth-led service network. By linking regional field offices through shared standards, shared initiatives, and shared accountability, Grace National transforms local outreach into a broader system of coordinated care.
Its focus is practical and community-rooted: nutritional, access, resilience-building, health-centered outreach, and service that responds directly to the conditions shaping everyday life in each region. More than an expansion effort, Grace National is a framework for long-term impact – one that equips young people to serve with structure, responsibility, and purpose across the Southeast.
Community Care Network
At the center of our work is the Community Care Network, a youth-led regional food access model designed to reduce barriers to care and bring support closer to the communities that need it most. Rather than relying on distant or rigid systems, the Community Care Network connects regional offices, local partners, and coordinated distribution efforts to deliver food relief in a way that is immediate, flexible, and dignity-centered.
More than a distribution system, the Community Care Network reflects our broader commitment to public health across the Southeast. It strengthens community resilience, supports local wellbeing, and helps ensure that care is delivered in ways that are personal, responsive, and rooted in real community need.
Service Regions
Areas where we currently have active teams, assigned leadership, and direct organizational work taking place through Grace National.
Miami, South Florida
Tampa, North Central Florida
Savannah, Georgia
New Orleans, Louisiana
Houston, Texas
Jackson, Mississippi
Charleston, South Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina
Mobile, Alabama
Get Involved
If you are ages 15-18, you can join a new generation of young leaders serving communities across the Southeast through direct outreach, public health-minded initiatives, food access efforts, events, and regionally coordinated service opportunities.
Make a Donation
We accept small donations that go directly to food and supply purchases for those in need.
