open hand Archives - Business RadioX ®

Atlanta Business Radio

Katie MacKenzie with Open Hand Atlanta

00:00 /

Brought to you by OnPay. Built in Atlanta, OnPay is the top-rated payroll and HR software anywhere. Get one month free at OnPay.com.

As a key member of the Resource Development Team, Katie MacKenzie works primarily with upper level individual donors to Open Hand Atlanta, maintaining a special focus on developing, identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding Major Gifts to ensure philanthropic goals are met.

Open Hand helps people prevent or better manage chronic disease through Comprehensive Nutrition Care™, which combines home-delivered meals and nutrition education as a means to reinforce the connection between informed food choices and improved quality of life.

Connect with Katie on LinkedIn and follow Open Hand on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What Open Hand is
The growth of the organization over the years
The nutrition programs and services Open Hand offers
The impact on the local community
How individuals or groups can get involved with Open Hand

About Our Sponsor

OnPay’s payroll services and HR software give you more time to focus on what’s most important. Rated “Excellent” by PC Magazine, we make it easy to pay employees fast, we automate all payroll taxes, and we even keep all your HR and benefits organized and compliant.

Our award-winning customer service includes an accuracy guarantee, deep integrations with popular accounting software, and we’ll even enter all your employee information for you — whether you have five employees or 500. Take a closer look to see all the ways we can save you time and money in the back office.

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Rich Parlontieri with Speedemissions, Charles Hall with Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia and Jess Parsons White with Open Hand/Good Measure Meals

00:00 / 01:06:39

Dominick Rainey, Rich Parlontieri, Jess Parsons White, Charles Hall, Nikole Toptas

Rich Parlontieri/Speedemissions

Speedemissions is a 14-year old company that was among the first to develop and build the emission-test-only store in Atlanta. They’ve grown to 43 location in four major cities: Atlanta, Houston, St. Louis and Salt Lake City. In 2010, they developed CARbonga, the first iPhone app for consumers to diagnose their own vehicles for emission problems and more. That app was followed up with CARbonga-SRI, a revolutionary iPhone app that provides details about a car’s safety recall status and technical services bulletins. Most recently, they have been piloting an emissions repair model that has lead to re-branding the company with two new brands: Expresso Emissions and Expresso Car Care Café. The names, logo design and store were just introduced in mid- January. In addition, they just signed a joint venture, Retail Vehicle Registration, to provide the consumer with an easy way to renew their vehicle registration without the hassle of a DMV.

Charles Hall/Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia

Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia is a medical practice focused on resolving wounds that are not healing with basic care. The physicians in their group are certified in wound healing and hyperbaric medicine. Each of their four locations (Whitcher Street Medical Office Building attached to Kennestone Hospital; St. Joseph Hospital lower level; Northside Forsyth Hospital campus, Bldg 1505; and Lithonia near Hillandale Hospital) are UHMS Accredited hyperbaric medicine centers. With hyperbaric medicine and a full armament of evidence-based wound resolution products, their physicians are able to heal (or at a minimum, significantly improve) the majority of wounds, thermal injuries and late effects of radiation presented to them. In most cases a physician referral is not necessary to be seen by one of their doctors for evaluation (depending on insurance requirements). Most insurance and Medicare/Medicaid is accepted.

Jess Parsons White/Open Hand/Good Measure Meals

Good Measure Meals is the social enterprise for the nonprofit Open Hand/Atlanta. Good Measure Meals is a fresh, local portion and calorie-controlled meal plan designed to help with weight, disease and time management. 100% of the net proceeds from GMM go to Open Hand to support its mission of providing healthy meals and nutrition education programs at no cost to the underserved and chronically ill in the communities.