Soldiers' Angels is a national nonprofit that helps military members, veterans, and their families. In Atlanta it runs a monthly food giveaway at the Atlanta VA Arcadia Clinic in Decatur and a food pantry on Lawrenceville Highway. You have to register first, and you register again each month.
Quilts of Valor Foundation is a national group of volunteers. They make quilts and formally present them to service members and veterans who have been touched by war. Local groups across the country sew, quilt and award the quilts, and people can nominate someone, sew blocks, or join.
A Million Thanks is a national nonprofit that collects handwritten thank-you letters and sends them to active-duty service members and veterans. You can write letters, start a letter-writing club at a school, or volunteer to sort and bundle mail.
Operation Gratitude is a national nonprofit that helps Americans say thank you to service members, veterans, first responders, and military families. It sends free care packages and handwritten letters, and it helps volunteers take part from home or in their own communities. People in these groups can request a package online.
Forgotten Soldiers Outreach is a nonprofit in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.S. service members for as long as they are deployed. Schools, scout troops, students and volunteers can help by writing letters, packing boxes and raising funds.
Operation Paperback is a national nonprofit run by volunteers. People who sign up as shippers mail used books straight to troops overseas, veterans, and military families. Money gifts help buy books for special requests and bulk shipments.
Operation Once in a Lifetime is a nonprofit with a mailing address in Dallas, Texas. It helps people who are serving or have served in the military, and their families. Help includes school grants, flights home, care packages, basic items for returning soldiers, holiday toys and meals, and special trips.
Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia is a nonprofit that helps girls grow as leaders through the Girl Scout program. Girls can join at different grade levels, earn badges and awards, go to summer camp, and take part in outdoor activities and cookie sales. Adults can volunteer as leaders, and scholarships are offered.
Operation Interdependence (OI) sends monthly boxes of care packages to service members while they are deployed. The group says it is approved by the Department of Defense and sends only secure, inspected items. People can also give money or supplies, or sign up to volunteer.
The 82nd Airborne Division Association is a national group for people who served in the 82nd Airborne Division or served on jump or glider status. It gives college scholarship help, holiday meals for troopers and their families, and an outdoor resilience program. Local chapters also raise money for wounded warriors. The pages list a mailing address in Fayetteville, North Carolina, not a location in Atlanta.
Operation First Response is a national charity based in Culpeper, Virginia. Its emergency money help now goes only to active-duty service members, active-duty first responders, Gold Star families, and families of fallen active-duty first responders. Veterans can still ask about free IT certification training and help paying for approved inpatient treatment.
Gary Sinise Foundation supports veterans, first responders, severely wounded heroes, and families of the fallen. Its programs include custom smart homes, home changes like ramps and bathrooms, mobility devices and vehicles, mental wellness retreats, and holiday retreats for families who lost a hero. It also gives grants to first responder departments.
S. Army Special Forces soldiers (Green Berets) and their families. It gives emergency and ongoing help, such as paying for health needs, helping families, helping with VA claims, and supporting families of fallen soldiers. To ask for help, you send a Request Support form through its website.
America's Mighty Warriors is a nonprofit that supports troops, veterans, and Gold Star families (families who lost a service member). Its four programs cover healing therapies for combat veterans, respite stays and retreats for families of the fallen, speaking up for service members, and acts of kindness like paying for meals, gas, funerals, or home repairs. The office is in Surprise, Arizona, and the pages do not name any Atlanta site.
United Military Care is a Georgia nonprofit in Marietta that helps veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors. It works to make sure no veteran goes hungry or homeless. It connects veterans to food, housing help and benefits help, gives out field kits and info kits, and holds veteran resource fairs.
This is Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1030 in Cumming. Veterans run it as volunteers, and it has served Forsyth County and nearby areas since 2009. They hold a weekly Friday breakfast and monthly meetings, visit veterans in nursing homes, and give scholarships to students who are related to veterans.