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.
Project Sleep is a nonprofit that teaches people about sleep health, sleep equity, and sleep disorders. Its free Sleep Helpline gives one-to-one information and resource navigation for people with sleep problems, diagnosed sleep disorders, families, caregivers, providers, educators, and social workers. It also runs online education, advocacy, story-sharing, and awareness programs.
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ASPR is the federal health emergency office in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its Emergency Prescription Assistance Program helps uninsured people in disaster areas get needed prescriptions, some vaccines, medical supplies, and medical equipment when EPAP has been activated.
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Susan G. Komen is a breast cancer organization that helps people with breast cancer and their families. It offers a helpline, patient navigation, breast cancer information, research funding, advocacy, and limited financial help for eligible people in treatment.
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The American Legion is a national veterans service organization. It helps veterans, service members, and military families with benefits help, disaster grants, suicide prevention training, youth programs, scholarships, and community service.
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