Atlanta nonprofit takes on hunger one gift card at a time

Street Charity is Atlanta’s newest nonprofit trying to help the hungry – and it’s doing it $5 at a time.

John and Antuanette Patton launched Street Charity officially in September, but the pair has spent decades feeding people in “every imaginable fashion.” But when they moved to Atlanta and started interacting with homeless people on the street, they decided to do more.

“We certainly knew that handing out dollar bills at the red light was not the answer,” John Patton said.

But John and Antuanette recognized that people don’t carry as much cash anymore, and some are hesitant to pass out money without knowing where it will go. John Patton said one man told him the “pull of drugs and alcohol is too strong” with cash.

“I just said, there has to be another way,” John Patton said.

The pair