123 organizations
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws. The Atlanta District Office helps people start discrimination complaints, schedule intake interviews, use mediation, and learn about worker rights and employer responsibilities.
Downtown8 services
Georgia Advocacy Office, Inc. is Georgia's federally mandated protection and advocacy organization for people with disabilities. It gives free information, advocacy, legal help, and rights education so people with disabilities can live safely in the community, get services, work, vote, and be treated fairly.
11 services
Women’s Resource Center is a nonprofit serving women and families in Manatee and Sarasota counties in Florida. It helps with counseling, career support, financial education, legal and resource advising, Spanish-language programs, and a support group for people affected by a loved one’s addiction.
12 services
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation gives free legal help to Atlantans who need safe housing or safety from intimate partner abuse. They help low-income tenants with evictions, repairs, landlord problems, and housing court, and they help survivors file protective orders and connect to support.
16 services
Georgia Justice Project helps Georgians who are affected by the criminal legal system. They provide free legal help, social service support, criminal record clearing help, voting rights information, and policy advocacy to reduce barriers to jobs, housing, and reentry.
11 services
The National Association of the Deaf is a national nonprofit led by and for Deaf and hard of hearing people. It works for civil rights, legal access, public policy, education, technology access, and youth leadership across the United States. Its legal center gives information, advocacy support, referrals, and takes select civil rights impact cases, but it does not usually provide individual legal representation.
7 services
Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, also called SnapCo, is a Black trans and queer-led group in Atlanta. They build community safety without police and offer programs like emergency mutual aid, record-clearing help, passport and ID support, member safety tools, political education, and community events.
12 services
Lambda Legal is a national civil rights legal organization for LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV. Its Help Desk gives general legal information and resources about discrimination, but it is not an emergency service and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
6 services
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is a nonprofit legal and civil rights group for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, AMEMSA, and immigrant communities in Georgia and the Southeast. They help with immigration legal services, citizenship clinics, voter access, policy advocacy, civil rights lawsuits, community organizing, and some mutual aid like grocery distributions.
11 services
First Liberty Institute is a national nonprofit legal organization based in Plano, Texas. It reviews religious freedom cases and may provide free legal help when a person, school, workplace, house of worship, or other group says their religious liberty was threatened.
7 services
The Legal Defense Fund is a national civil rights legal organization that fights racial discrimination through law, research, advocacy, and public education. It may review requests for legal help, works on issues like voting rights, education, economic justice, and criminal justice, and also runs scholarship programs for undergraduate and law students.
Marietta Street Artery6 services
Atlanta Victim Assistance, Inc. helps people in Atlanta who have been hurt by crime. Their advocates help with safety planning, court support, crisis help, victim compensation applications, referrals, support groups, school programs, and basic items like clothing, food, and toiletries.
Downtown13 services
Street Grace is a nonprofit that works to stop the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children. They help at-risk youth and adult survivors through a 24/7 hotline, referrals, care coordination, prevention training, legal advocacy, and technology projects that deter buyers online.
12 services
The Georgia Commission on Family Violence is a Georgia state commission working to end family violence across the state. It trains professionals, supports local task forces, certifies and monitors family violence intervention programs, studies domestic violence deaths, and connects survivors of domestic violence murder-suicide with support and referrals.
8 services
Navy Wounded Warrior is the Navy program that helps seriously wounded, ill, or injured Sailors and Coast Guardsmen. It helps with non-medical needs like benefits, transition planning, family support, legal referrals, mental health resources, and adaptive sports.
9 services
The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, or ASAP, is a national nonprofit membership group for asylum seekers in the United States. Members get free immigration updates, online legal information, help asking asylum-related questions, and ways to take part in advocacy for a fairer asylum system.
7 services
The Arc is a national nonprofit that supports and advocates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. It works on disability rights, public policy, legal advocacy, education, future planning, health, technology, travel practice events, and connections to local chapters.
13 services
Georgia Legal Services Program is a nonprofit law firm that gives free civil legal help to people with low incomes and seniors in most Georgia counties outside metro Atlanta. They help with problems like eviction, public benefits, family violence protection, health coverage, school issues, farmworker rights, and consumer debt.
13 services
LatinoJustice PRLDEF is a national civil rights legal organization serving Latino communities in all 50 states and U.S. territories. It uses lawsuits, policy advocacy, community education, leadership programs, and a bilingual hotline to help with civil rights problems, immigrant rights, voting rights, workplace issues, housing access, and criminal legal reform.
12 services
The Health Law Partnership (HeLP) is a medical-legal partnership that helps low-income children who are patients at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and their families. They provide free civil legal help with problems that can affect a child’s health, such as Medicaid, SSI disability benefits, school issues, unsafe housing, evictions, guardianship, and public benefits.
3 services
