Welcome to the
Metro Atlanta Online Angel Tree

The Salvation Army Angel Tree program reaches millions of children every year.

If you have an opportunity to bring joy to someone's life, why wouldn't you?

Every child should experience the excitement of receiving a present on Christmas, despite their circumstances.

Making a difference in your community…

The Salvation Army Angel Tree Program has been a tradition in the Metro Atlanta area since 1979.

The Metro Atlanta Angel Tree program serves 8,000+ children and seniors every year.

Angel Tree adoptions are available online and at (404)486-2942.

Angel Tree volunteers in the Metro Atlanta area donate thousands of hours of their time each year.

Learn how The Salvation Army Angel Tree program and its donors help millions of families and seniors in need celebrate Christmas.

This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.

2 Corinthians 9:12

How Angel Tree Works

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Families are referred to The Salvation Army for help with Christmas by social service agencies, schools, churches, or word of mouth. All participant information is verified through the application process.
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We obtain the name of each child and eligible senior and a list of their desired Christmas gifts. Verification is made to ensure need.
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Angel tags are printed for each individual and placed for adoption online. We also distribute groups of angels to local corporations, churches and organizations upon request.
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Generous donors select Angels, purchase gifts, and return them to the Angel Tree warehouse by the given deadline on each tag.
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Upon their return to our warehouse, gifts are checked in, processed, and made ready to be delivered to their various Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Centers for pickup by the Angel families.
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During the week prior to Christmas Eve, gifts are delivered to the various Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Centers in the Metro Atlanta area from our warehouse and families pick up their gifts.
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Angel tags are printed for each individual and placed for adoption online. We also distribute groups of angels to local corporations, churches and organizations upon request.
4
Generous donors select Angels, purchase gifts, and return them to the Angel Tree warehouse by the given deadline on each tag.
5
Upon their return to our warehouse, gifts are checked in, processed, and made ready to be delivered to their various Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Centers for pickup by the Angel families.
6
During the week prior to Christmas Eve, gifts are delivered to the various Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Centers in the Metro Atlanta area from our warehouse and families pick up their gifts.
5
Upon their return to our warehouse, gifts are checked in, processed, and made ready to be delivered to their various Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Centers for pickup by the Angel families.
6
During the week prior to Christmas Eve, gifts are delivered to the various Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Centers in the Metro Atlanta area from our warehouse and families pick up their gifts.

A History Of Community Involvement

Along with the familiar Red Kettles, the Angel Tree program is one of The Salvation Army's highest profile Christmas efforts. Angel Tree was created by The Salvation Army in 1979 by Majors Charles and Shirley White when they worked with a Lynchburg, Virginia shopping mall to provide clothing and toys for children at Christmas time.

The program got its name because the Whites identified the wishes of local children by writing their gift needs on Hallmark greeting cards that featured pictures of angels. They placed the cards on a Christmas tree at the mall to allow shoppers to select children to help. Thanks to the Whites, who were assigned by The Army to the Lynchburg area at the time, more than 700 children had a brighter Christmas that first year.

Three years later, when the Whites were transferred to Nashville, Tennessee, Angel Tree was launched in the Music City. WSM radio, which airs the Grand Ol' Opry, came on board that year as the first Angel Tree co-sponsor in the U.S.

Because of the on-air promotion on WSM in Nashville, as well as national publicity on CNN and the Larry King Show, news of Angel Tree spread across the country like wildfire.

Angel Tree adoptions can be made by individuals online or through a group such as your corporation, church or organization. Local communities have fully supported the Angel Tree program, making it possible to help numerous children and seniors each year.

ATL Angel Tree Corporate Partner:

  • WANF - Atlanta News First

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