As we reflect on 2025, we’re celebrating YOU – the heart behind every milestone we’ve achieved.
Your generosity empowered young adults with physical disabilities to gain independence, build friendships, and live more fully in their communities. Thank you for helping us continue this life-changing work and for being part of the bright future we’re building together.
Champions Place residents enjoy a PGA Tour Superstore hosted event. Featured above are: Luke, Alison, Sarah, and Corey
“Champions Place is one of the greatest things that’s ever happened to me.”
Noelle Ford – Champions Place Resident
Noelle Ford — Champions Place Resident
Impact In Numbers
150+
physically challenged young adults served through our programs
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30
in-person social events fostering community and friendships
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225+
opportunities to connect with friends on-line
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40%
planned increase in resident capacity at Champions Place
48
Champions Place@Home installations, plus
+24
additional installations in 2026
4,681
volunteer hours served by over
559
volunteers
Champions Place residents enjoying time together playing Monopoly.
Champions Place
Champions Place is an independent living community designed specifically for young adults with physical disabilities. The residents are thriving while living with friends and being active in their local community.
Champions Place@Home
Leveraging what we have learned at Champions Place, we have enabled over 48 physically challenged young adults to become more independent living in their existing homes. The impact is significant and we plan to install Champions Place@Home in 24 additional homes over the next 12 months.
Champions Community Connect
Instead of feeling isolated, physically challenged young adults gather online five nights a week cultivating friendships while enjoying games, live music, bible study and special events their favorite is our Around the World series, where they get to experience places they’ve never been!
Champions Community Connect participants smiling during a zoom event hosted by Paralympian Scot Hollenbeck.
Titan Social Events
Titan Social Events are all about building community and having fun. Participants anticipate the next event where they will see old and new friends while enjoying holiday parties, baseball outings, Titan Game Day and other special events.
Titans Wheelchair Sports
Bi-monthly scrimmages offer our Titan community a chance to get active, engage both mind and body, and build confidence in their abilities.
After greeting friends and sharing a devotion together, we crank tunes and enjoy a game of wheelchair sports where everyone is included it’s the closest you’ll get to Heaven on earth!”
Champions Place residents, Noelle and Corey, dressed up as characters from The Little Rascals movie (Alfalfa and Darla) for the annual Titan Halloween party.
Matt Thompson and friends enjoying time together at a Titan wheelchair sports event
“The Champions Place@Home program allows me to control my fans and lights around the house just by speaking through an app. Having both upper and lower extremity loss, this is truly amazing support. You have no idea how much this technology is going to change things for me. Now I can use my voice to activate all these different tools and I’m loving it.”
Carria Williams – Champions Place@Home Recipient
Rendering of the new Champions Place expansion building project.
Champions Place Expansion
We are planning to expand the existing Champions Place footprint allowing us to increase our resident occupancy by 40%. Plans also include the addition of a “house parent” apartment to enhance our operational model to make its future more sustainable.
Matthew Dooley, Champions Place resident, and Kat Blackburn, Champions staff team member
Support Broker
Working with the Georgia Medicaid team, Champions Community Foundation has sponsored a team to develop a new Medicaid service to answer the question, “What will happen to me when my parents are no longer capable or alive — who will take on the challenging responsibility of managing the Medicaid services and other programs that provide me the daily support I need?” We are now in the final stages of developing this new service called Support Broker that has the potential to impact over 3,300+ Georgia families who self-direct their Medicaid services
And this is why we do it! Thank you supporters!
“Having all of this technology, and having the freedom to move around wherever I want to go, without having to worry about opening doors it has changed my life forever.”
Matthew Dooley – Champions Place Resident
“Volunteering with Champions Place through Atlanta Gas Light has been incredibly rewarding. Our team planted a butterfly garden in the backyard and volunteered at a wheelchair scrimmage, bringing joy to these special young adults and to us, so much so that my husband joined as a volunteer. Seeing the positive impact on the residents is truly inspiring, and I’m grateful to contribute to such a wonderful organization.”
Jodie Hart — Volunteer
“I can hangout online with my new friends in Georgia all the way from Brooklyn, NY, thanks to Champions Community Connect!”
Athena Savides — Champions Community Connect Participant
“The ability to spend time with my Titan friends and Coaches, while listening to music and racing up and down the court. My favorite part is when Coach Rick yells ‘C’mon Will!”
Will Hillis — Titan Sports Participant
“The best thing about being part of Champions Place is that I get the opportunity to live with my best friends!”
Adam Laarhoven — Champions Place Resident