About ATL Care
Thousands of groups in this city give out food, keep people housed, treat people without insurance, teach, organize, and welcome people home from prison. The hard part has been finding the right one at the moment you need it. ATL Care is a free guide to all of them. Anyone can use it to find help, and anyone can help keep it right.
“We have what we need, if we use what we have.”— Edgar Cahn
Listings come from public directories and resource lists, the organizations themselves, and groups our own research finds. They cover many kinds of help: food, housing, health, legal help, work, arts, neighborhood groups and more.
When you call a place and get through, one tap records that it worked. If something is wrong, you can say what. An organization can claim its listing and keep it right. A check by a person counts for more than one of ours.
If you need help today, say or tap what is going on. You get one place to call first, when to go and what to bring, in English or Spanish. You do not need an account.
We re-read each organization’s own website and update what changed. Each listing shows when it was last checked and what kind of source it came from. A listing nobody has checked says so, and tells you to call first.
A wrong phone number can cost someone a bus fare or a day of work. Each time a listing turns out to be right, a person gets help, and learns the guide can be relied on.
The people and groups doing this work are what Atlanta is rich in. The guide is here to make them easier to find, to support and to join. We are also building a neighbor exchange, where people offer and ask for help directly: a ride, a crib, an hour of tutoring. It is being tried with a small group and is not open yet.
Keeping listings current is most of the work, and everyone who uses the guide can take part in it.
Three ways to take part:
Called a place or went there? Open its page, tap “I used this place”, and say whether it worked. It takes a few seconds and helps the next person.
Search the directoryRun a nonprofit, clinic or program? Claim your listing and fix what is wrong. Your changes show right away, and the listing says it was confirmed by the organization.
Find your listingCoalitions, neighborhood planning units and funders: publish a list of the places you recommend, use our maps of where help is thin, or send us the groups we are missing.
Email hello@atlcare.orgNot in the directory yet? Get your organization listed . It is free, and a person reads every one.
There is no paid tier and we do not sell data. The directory’s data is open for anyone to use: researchers, reporters, other cities.
Listings come from public directories and resource lists, the organizations themselves, and groups our own research finds. Today that is 4,110 organizations and 34,325 services: food, housing, health, legal help, work, arts, neighborhood groups and more.
