484 organizations
How community and civic life works in Atlanta
Atlanta is organized into 25 Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs) — citizen councils that meet monthly and give official input on zoning, development, and city budgets. Anyone who lives in the NPU can show up and vote; it's the most direct lever ordinary residents have, and most people have never been told it exists. Find your NPU's meeting on the city's planning site or ask at your library branch.
Libraries deserve their own sentence: free meeting rooms, computers, printing, hotspot lending, social workers in some branches — the public living room of every neighborhood. For volunteering, Hands On Atlanta matches people to thousands of shifts; mutual aid networks organize neighbor-to-neighbor help with fewer forms and faster yes.
What to expect when you show up: community meetings run on first names and folding chairs. Come twice — the first time you'll listen, the second time you'll belong.
Atlanta Angels is a nonprofit that supports children, youth, and families in the foster care community in Metro Atlanta. They match foster and kinship families with volunteers for steady support and match youth in foster care with mentors.
6 services
I AM ALS is a national nonprofit that helps people living with ALS, their caregivers, and loved ones. They offer free virtual support groups, peer support, help from ALS Support Specialists, clinical trial information, veterans resources, and advocacy to speed ALS research and treatments.
11 services
Her Story is Mine is a Black women-led organization that creates spaces for Black women and girls to share stories, build sisterhood, and support healing. It offers consultations, workshops, events, research, story sharing, and self-care resources.
7 services
Planned Parenthood Action Fund is the advocacy arm of Planned Parenthood. It works across the country to protect abortion access, sexual health care, voting rights, and reproductive rights through education, organizing, lobbying, voter information, and local action.
7 services
