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.
A Cure In Sight is a national nonprofit run by ocular melanoma patients and volunteers. It helps people with ocular melanoma through financial aid, patient packets, education, support connections, an app, research support, and awareness events.
9 services
Quilts of Valor Foundation is a national nonprofit that honors U.S. service members and veterans touched by war. Volunteers make and formally award handmade quilts as a thank-you and a source of comfort.
4 services
Hot Mess Express Rescue is a women-led nonprofit with volunteer chapters across the United States. Volunteers help women with free home reset work like dishes, laundry, basic deep cleaning, organizing, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, and friendly support. I could verify the national organization, but I could not verify an Atlanta-area chapter or office from the public pages I reached.
3 services
The National Guard Educational Foundation is a nonprofit in Washington, DC that tells the history of the National Guard. It runs the National Guard Memorial Museum and library, offers research help, supports scholarships for some Guard families and wounded Guard members, and connects eligible NGAUS members with Honor Flight guardian service.
9 services
