The Women's Entrepreneurial Opportunity Project (WEOP) is a nonprofit in Atlanta that helps women, especially Black, Indigenous, and women of color, build successful small businesses. It offers coaching, workshops, and networking through its ABOVE program, including special training on how to win government and private contracts.
The Ke'nekt Cooperative is a Black-owned community space on Ralph David Abernathy Blvd in Atlanta. It runs a cooperative retail space for Black-owned businesses and offers business support. It also hosts weekly and monthly events, like tech help for seniors, community conversations and mindful walks.
ACE is a nonprofit lender that makes loans to small businesses in Georgia. Each loan comes with free coaching from a business advisor. Its Women's Business Center gives coaching and training in English and Spanish.
The Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs (RICE) is an Atlanta group that helps entrepreneurs start and grow businesses. It runs a step-by-step learning program called Big IDEAS, with coaching, mentoring, and links to money and contacts. Members can also use office space, a mailbox, and storage at 504 Fair Street SW.
Inspiritus (once called Lutheran Services of Georgia) helps people whose lives have been upended. It helps new refugees and immigrants settle in, find jobs and get legal help. It also finds foster homes for children with serious medical or behavior needs, and host homes for people with developmental disabilities. After natural disasters, it helps families rebuild.
Friends of Refugees is a faith-based nonprofit in Clarkston. It helps refugee families after the government's first resettlement help ends. It offers moms' classes and childbirth support, a job class, business training, youth programs, and a community garden.
Amani Women Center is a nonprofit in Clarkston that helps refugee and immigrant women and survivors of violence. Staff and community ambassadors help people apply for benefits like SNAP and Medicaid, get interpreters and translation, and get immigration help. It also runs a 12-month sewing academy that builds job skills.
Operation HOPE is a national nonprofit with its main office in Atlanta. Its coaches give free money coaching and classes on credit, buying a first home, starting a small business, and getting back on your feet after a disaster. It also runs money programs for young people.
The Atlanta Business League has served the Atlanta business community since 1933. It helps small and minority-owned businesses grow through membership, mentoring, training, events and advocacy. Members also get business referrals and technical help.
ACE Women's Business Center helps people start and grow small businesses, with a special focus on women. It offers coaching, classes, online tools and information about business loans from ACE, a nonprofit lender. Services are offered in English and Spanish.
Atlanta Tech Village is a hub for tech startup founders. It has a building in Buckhead and a downtown site called ATV Sylvan. It rents desks and offices, and it holds events, pitch practice, workshops and a 12-week program for founders from underrepresented groups. Some events are free and open to the public.
Ujamaafest is an annual Kwanzaa festival held in the Atlanta area that celebrates Black culture and the Kwanzaa principle of cooperative economics. People can attend workshops, panels, cultural performances, and a marketplace of Black-owned vendors, and children receive a free book as a holiday gift. It also runs a special program for high school students called the HBCU Experience and a Lactation Pop Up Lounge for families.
The Village Market helps Black-owned and other small businesses in Atlanta grow. It runs marketplaces and campaigns and offers trainings, including ELEVATE, a free 12-week online program. Its sister company, The Village Retail, runs a store at Ponce City Market.
Village Micro Fund, also called VMF Collective, helps Black founders learn, build, and own businesses together. It runs a 15-week Flourish Fellowship, makes investments in Black businesses, and has a fund that helps employees buy the business they work in.
Atlanta Black Chambers is a nonprofit that speaks up for Black-owned businesses and helps them grow. People pay to join, then can take part in committees and events. It also runs a free-to-find weekly online talk for Atlanta Black entrepreneurs.
S. Small Business Administration is a federal agency that helps small business owners and people hurt by declared disasters. It offers low-interest disaster loans, backs loans made by lenders, and has programs for veteran business owners. It also points owners to free business counseling.
This is the Gwinnett County section of the National Council of Negro Women. It is a group of women of African descent who work on education, health, money skills and fairness. Women can join as members, and the group runs programs in science and education, small business, health and social justice, and it has given scholarships to Gwinnett students.
The D'Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families is part of Syracuse University. It offers career training and business programs for veterans, service members and military spouses. Many programs are online, and it lists two local Ambassadors in Atlanta.
