DFOWW Incorporated July 2026 Newsletter
UV Safety Awareness Month
July is widely observed as UV Safety Awareness Month. It is a time to remind individuals and families to protect their skin and eyes from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays, especially during the summer months when many people spend more time outdoors attending community events, traveling, gardening, walking, volunteering, working, and caring for their families.
UV rays can damage the skin and eyes even on cloudy days. Too much exposure may contribute to sunburn, premature aging, eye damage, hyperpigmentation, worsening dark spots, and an increased risk of skin cancer. Melanoma is one of the most serious forms of skin cancer, and early awareness matters.
One dangerous misconception is that individuals with darker skin tones cannot develop skin cancer or experience UV damage. While melanin provides some natural protection, it does not make anyone immune. Black, brown, and melanin-rich skin can still experience sun damage, discoloration, premature aging, and skin cancer. In some communities, skin cancer may also be diagnosed later because early symptoms are not recognized.
Recommended Sun Safety Practices
Everyone, regardless of skin tone, should take sun protection seriously. Recommended practices include wearing broad-spectrum sunscreen with SPF 30 or higher, reapplying sunscreen as directed, wearing UV-protective sunglasses, using wide-brimmed hats and protective clothing, seeking shade when possible, limiting extended outdoor activity during peak sun hours, checking the skin regularly for changes, and contacting a healthcare professional about unusual spots, changing moles, or other skin concerns. Skin checks should include areas that are sometimes overlooked, such as the palms, soles of the feet, and nail beds.
Food Security, Nutrition Education, and Community Impact
At DFOWW Incorporated, July is also a time to continue addressing food insecurity, household hardship, nutrition education, and community wellness throughout Georgia. Many families are still facing rising grocery costs, increased utility expenses, transportation challenges, and limited access to fresh, nutritious foods. Families with children, low-income households, seniors, individuals with disabilities, and working families are often forced to make difficult choices between food, rent, utilities, medication, childcare, and transportation.
DFOWW Incorporated’s Write-Right Nutrition Program helps address these challenges by combining supplemental food assistance, essential household support, nutrition literacy education, gardening education, wellness instruction, and practical life-skills training. Our educational model is designed to do more than meet an immediate need. It helps families build long-term knowledge, healthier habits, food sustainability skills, grocery budgeting strategies, and greater self-sufficiency.
Education + Nutrition = Empowerment.
July Community Partner Highlight
DFOWW Incorporated extends sincere appreciation to the valued community partners, volunteers, donors, and supporters who continue helping make our mission possible. This month, DFOWW Incorporated received generous donations of food, bakery items, household products, baby diapers, Pull-Ups, baby wipes, laundry sanitizer, and other essential supplies from community partners, including Publix and Costco.
These donations support DFOWW Incorporated’s educational programming and help strengthen partnerships with organizations serving families throughout Georgia. We remain committed to being responsible stewards of every donated item entrusted to our organization. Every donation is carefully managed to maximize impact while advancing our charitable and educational mission.
We especially thank Ms. Lauren and the Publix team for the additional Thursday evening donation that included essential baby care items, household products, and bakery items. Diapers, wipes, laundry supplies, hygiene products, and household essentials are deeply needed by families. These items can be expensive and are not always covered by public assistance benefits. When families receive this support through structured nonprofit programming, they may be able to redirect limited household income toward rent, utilities, transportation, medical needs, and other necessities.
DFOWW Incorporated is grateful for every partner, volunteer, donor, and supporter who helps transform donated resources into meaningful community impact.
What Makes the Write-Right Nutrition Program Different?
DFOWW Incorporated is not a traditional food bank or open public food pantry. We are an education-based food security program. Our focus extends beyond simply providing food. Through structured educational workshops, participants learn practical skills related to nutrition literacy, healthy eating, food sustainability, gardening, grocery budgeting, food label reading, hydration, wellness, and long-term health.
Our goal is to help participants not only access food today, but also gain knowledge and tools that may support healthier and more sustainable choices for the future. This educational approach is one of the reasons DFOWW Incorporated’s Write-Right Nutrition Program is unique. We are not simply distributing food. We are working to empower individuals and families through education.
Donated Products Are Not an Open Public Giveaway
Many people see photographs of donated food, diapers, household goods, and essential products and may assume DFOWW Incorporated operates as an unrestricted public giveaway program. DFOWW Incorporated does not operate as a traditional open public food pantry. Donated products are strategically used to support our charitable mission, educational workshops, registered program participants, approved community distributions, and trusted community partners who actively collaborate with our organization.
As part of this program structure, supplemental food and essential item distributions are generally reserved for active Write-Right Nutrition Program participants, registered workshop attendees, families participating in approved DFOWW Incorporated programs, trusted nonprofit, healthcare, school, faith-based, and community partners, and community distributions approved by DFOWW Incorporated based on donation availability, volunteer capacity, funding, and program priorities.
This structure helps ensure accountability, responsible stewardship, and long-term sustainability.
Two Ways to Participate
DFOWW Incorporated offers more than one way for families to participate in or receive support through the Write-Right Nutrition Program model.
Option 1: Educational Workshop Pathway. Families may register for and attend DFOWW Incorporated nutrition literacy workshops. Workshop registration fees support the educational program, including curriculum materials, workshop supplies, facility costs, program coordination, insurance, participant resources, and meals when provided. Eligible participants may also receive supplemental food and essential household items based on availability, program guidelines, and organizational capacity.
Option 2: Community Assistance Pathway. Families who are not participating in a workshop may contact DFOWW Incorporated to learn about limited supplemental food or essential item distribution opportunities. Assistance through this pathway is not guaranteed and depends on available donations, volunteer capacity, funding, program priorities, and organizational resources. Households participating through this pathway are invited to make a suggested Program Support Contribution to help sustain food recovery, transportation, refrigeration, storage, nutrition education, and community outreach. Program Support Contributions support DFOWW Incorporated’s charitable mission and operating expenses and are not payment for donated food or donated essential items.
Free to Participants Does Not Mean Free to Provide
Many community gardening, nutrition, wellness, and educational programs are promoted as free to participants. While individuals may not always pay the full cost of service, it is important to understand that these programs are not free to provide. Every workshop, class, distribution, and community program requires real resources. Facilities must be maintained. Utilities must be paid. Educational materials and supplies must be purchased. Insurance, transportation, refrigeration, storage, equipment, marketing, administrative support, technology, volunteer coordination, and program planning all carry real costs.
The question is not whether a program costs money. The question is how those costs are funded. Some programs are supported through grants, taxpayer-funded institutions, charitable contributions, corporate sponsorships, university budgets, foundations, or other funding sources. DFOWW Incorporated relies on a combination of participant investment fees, Program Support Contributions, sponsorships, donations, volunteers, and community partnerships to help offset a portion of program expenses.
At DFOWW Incorporated, we believe it is important to be transparent about this reality while continuing to provide high-quality educational programming and responsible community support.
Why Program Support Contributions Matter
DFOWW Incorporated is a small, volunteer-operated nonprofit organization that receives no guaranteed government funding for these services. Our organization incurs real operating expenses every time we recover, transport, store, refrigerate, organize, and distribute donated food and essential products. While donated products may be provided to DFOWW Incorporated at no cost, recovering and distributing those products is not free.
Program Support Contributions help support fuel and transportation, vehicle maintenance, storage and refrigeration, freezer and refrigerator needs, insurance, educational materials, workshop supplies, facility costs, website and technology expenses, administrative compliance, volunteer coordination, program planning, and community outreach.
Without sufficient Program Support Contributions, sponsorships, grants, donations, and partner support, DFOWW Incorporated cannot continue providing these services at the level our community needs.
Staying Hydrated During Georgia’s Summer Heat
Georgia summers can bring extreme heat and humidity. Staying hydrated is essential for regulating body temperature, supporting heart and kidney function, maintaining energy, and preventing heat-related illness. Dehydration can happen quickly, especially for children, older adults, individuals with disabilities, people with chronic medical conditions, outdoor workers, volunteers, and pets.
Signs of dehydration or heat-related stress may include dizziness, headache, fatigue, dry mouth, muscle cramps, nausea, confusion, rapid heartbeat, dark urine, and weakness. Ways to reduce heat-related risk include drinking water throughout the day, limiting outdoor activity during peak heat, taking breaks in shaded or air-conditioned areas, wearing lightweight clothing, avoiding excessive sugary drinks, checking on children, seniors, neighbors, and pets, and carrying water when volunteering, walking, driving, or distributing food.
Pets also need protection during extreme heat. Dogs and cats can overheat quickly, especially on hot pavement or during long periods outdoors. Pet owners should provide fresh water and shade and avoid walking pets during the hottest part of the day.
How You Can Support Our Mission
Every individual, business, church, foundation, healthcare provider, school, and community organization has an opportunity to strengthen DFOWW Incorporated’s mission and expand our impact throughout Georgia.
A suggested Program Support Contribution of $20 per household helps sustain DFOWW Incorporated’s education-based food security programs by supporting food recovery, transportation, refrigeration, storage, nutrition education, and community outreach. They are not payment for donated food or essential household items.
Every Program Support Contribution, donation, sponsorship, volunteer hour, and community partnership helps us recover more nutritious food, reduce food waste, strengthen nutrition education, and serve more families throughout Georgia.
Community support helps DFOWW Incorporated provide nutrition literacy workshops to low-income families, supply supplemental food and essential household items, support food recovery and distribution efforts, provide educational materials and participant resources, cover facilities, insurance, transportation, storage, and operating costs, and build long-term solutions for health, wellness, food security, and family stability.
Ways to Give
Website: https://dfoww.org/support-us/
Zelle: info@dfoww.org
July 2026 Community Schedule
July 2 – Food Distribution
July 3 – Food Distribution
July 6 – Food Distribution
July 9 – Food Distribution
July 13 – Food Distribution
July 16 – Food Distribution
July 17 – Board Meeting
July 18 – Food Distribution
July 20 – Food Distribution
July 23 – Food Distribution
July 27 – Food Distribution
July 30 – Food Distribution
Hunger does not take holidays. DFOWW Incorporated remains committed to serving families year-round.
About DFOWW Incorporated
DFOWW Incorporated, also known as Daphany’s Fabulous Objective Weekly Workshops, is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individuals and families with children across Georgia through education, nutrition assistance, wellness programming, and community-based services. We are not a food bank. We are an education-based food security program.
Through the Write-Right Nutrition Program, DFOWW Incorporated provides nutrition literacy education, grocery budgeting education, gardening education, wellness instruction, supplemental food assistance, and essential community support. Supplemental food and essential item distributions are generally connected to educational participation, registered program involvement, approved community partnerships, or limited community assistance opportunities based on availability and organizational capacity.
Families who complete registration for DFOWW Incorporated educational workshops may also become eligible to participate in future supplemental food distributions and additional program support opportunities associated with the Write-Right Nutrition Program. To help sustain program operations, educational materials, facility costs, staffing support, participant resources, insurance expenses, transportation, food recovery, storage, and catered meals, the program may include structured participant investment fees or Program Support Contributions.
Partnership Opportunities
Organizations interested in establishing official partnerships with DFOWW Incorporated may request a Partnership Packet by emailing info@dfoww.org.
Organizations seeking to enroll clients or program participants into DFOWW Incorporated workshops should anticipate either covering applicable participant investment fees on behalf of their clients or coordinating collection of applicable participant investment fees prior to service delivery. Reduced fees may be available for qualifying low-income participants who meet program eligibility requirements.
While donated meeting space and in-kind support are sincerely appreciated, operational program expenses associated with curriculum delivery, staffing support, supplies, meals, transportation, insurance, educational materials, and program administration remain applicable and must be covered for services to be provided.
DFOWW Incorporated welcomes partnerships with schools, healthcare providers, social service agencies, municipalities, faith-based organizations, businesses, foundations, and community organizations that share our commitment to improving nutrition literacy, wellness, food security, family stability, and long-term self-sufficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there a participation fee or Program Support Contribution?
Nonprofit status does not eliminate operational costs. Participant investment fees and Program Support Contributions help support curriculum development, educational materials, gardening supplies, facilities, insurance, administrative costs, participant resources, food recovery, transportation, storage, refrigeration, and catered meals associated with the Write-Right Nutrition Program.
What is the workshop participation cost?
The current participation structure is $25 per qualifying low-income adult participant, $40 per qualifying low-income family household, and $75 per non-low-income adult participant. Children under age 17 participate free when attending with a registered parent or guardian. Low-income eligibility may require verification of participation in qualifying assistance programs such as SNAP, TANF, or other approved income-based assistance programs.
Why are food distributions connected to workshops?
DFOWW Incorporated operates an education-based hunger relief program rather than a food-only assistance model. Supplemental food and essential item distributions are connected to educational participation, approved program enrollment, trusted community partnerships, and organizational capacity.
Can I receive food or essential items without attending a workshop?
The Write-Right Nutrition Program is DFOWW Incorporated’s primary educational pathway for providing supplemental food assistance. However, individuals and families who are not participating in a workshop may contact DFOWW Incorporated to inquire about limited supplemental food or essential household item assistance. Such assistance depends on donation availability, volunteer capacity, funding, organizational priorities, and program guidelines. DFOWW Incorporated may also conduct limited community distributions consistent with its charitable mission and Board-approved policies.
Does DFOWW Incorporated provide transportation?
DFOWW Incorporated does not provide transportation. Participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation.
Program Notice
Program schedules, workshop dates, food availability, essential item availability, participant eligibility requirements, investment fees, Program Support Contributions, and program benefits are subject to change based on funding availability, donations, facility availability, volunteer support, partner support, and organizational capacity. Registration may be required for participation in certain programs and services. Supplemental food and essential item distributions are not guaranteed and are based on availability, program eligibility, and organizational capacity.
Our Commitment
DFOWW Incorporated remains committed to strengthening families through nutrition education, community partnerships, supplemental food assistance, and practical life-skills programming. Together, we are building healthier families, stronger communities, and a more food-secure future for Georgia.
Contact Information
DFOWW Incorporated
Phone: (678) 977-9703
Email: info@dfoww.org
Website: http://www.dfoww.org