- Community Kitchens was established at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in 1980 by Father Maurice Branscomb and expanded to Grace Church. On our campus, Community Kitchens serves a hot lunch Monday through Saturday, and breakfast Monday through Friday in the Parish Hall at Grace. There is no cost to the meals; no one is required to attend a religious service; all are equally welcome – they only need to be hungry.
- 55th Place Community Thrift Store, located at Five 55th Place North, was opened in 1988 by Fr. Branscomb in the hallway of Grace before moving to its own building a few blocks away from the church several years later. Since 1988 over $2 million in proceeds have been shared with various ministries in the metro Birmingham area.
- Interfaith Hospitality House began in 1981 at the Grace Episcopal parish house and provided interim shelter and social services to families who were unhoused. Now run by the YWCA, it remains the only permanent shelter in Birmingham open to families with adolescent male children, and to single fathers with minor children. It relocated in 2010 to a new building on 1st Avenue South.
- Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama is a community development and advocacy organization that champions economic equality, civic engagement, and social justice for Latino and immigrant families in Alabama. HICA was established in 1999 by a Grace Woodlawn parishioner.
- St. Benedict’s House (Three Hots & A Cot) in 2010 when the parish house became available, Grace offered it to Three Hots & A Cot (an agency serving homeless veterans) as an additional location for their agency.
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