About ATL Care
Atlanta already has thousands of organizations giving out food, keeping people housed, treating the uninsured, welcoming people home from prison. What it hasn’t had is a reliable way for the right person to find the right one at the right moment. ATL Care is that way: a free, public directory of help — built like infrastructure, not charity tech.
“We have what we need, if we use what we have.”— Edgar Cahn
Public sources, partner data, and the organizations themselves — thousands of listings for food, housing, health, legal help, work, and more, checked weekly for changes.
Case managers and neighbors tap “called — it works” when a number answers. Organizations claim their listings and keep them current. Every check is shown, with a name and a date.
Someone in crisis speaks or taps what they need and gets ONE good answer — phone number, address, open now — in English or Spanish, no account, no reading required.
Every listing says when it was last checked and where its data came from. Our freshness dashboard and gap maps are public — even when the numbers are unflattering.
Here’s the simple version of our theory: every time someone uses this directory and the information is right — the phone answers, the doors are open, the help is real — a little trust is built. Not in us; in the idea that this city shows up for its people.
Pile up enough of those moments and something bigger becomes possible: neighbors helping neighbors directly — a ride to a job interview, a crib that’s outgrown, an hour of tutoring. That’s why ATL Care includes an exchange where people offer and ask for help, person to person. The directory builds the trust; the exchange spends it well.
So: keeping listings fresh isn’t maintenance. It’s the whole strategy.
This only works as a shared project. Three ways in, depending on who you are:
Use the directory for your work? Every “called — it works” you tap keeps a listing alive for the next person. Five seconds, real impact.
Open the helper toolsRun a nonprofit, clinic, or program? Claim your listing, fix what's wrong, and get a weekly one-tap “still accurate” check instead of stale data.
Find your listingCoalitions, NPUs, funders: steward a category, publish an official resource list, or use our gap maps in your planning. We built the tools for exactly this.
Email hello@atlcare.orgNo premium tier, no paywalled “verified” badge, no selling data. The directory’s data is published under an open license so anyone — researchers, journalists, other cities — can build on it. Public infrastructure means public.
