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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.
Martin Luther King Sr. Community Resources Collaborative is a community resource center in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward and Sweet Auburn area. It brings partner agencies together in one place to help families with education, jobs, money skills, housing education, family support, and community programs.
Sweet Auburn7 services
USTA Foundation Incorporated is the charitable arm of the United States Tennis Association. It helps young people from under-resourced communities through tennis, education, mentoring, local youth program grants, court projects, career programs, and college scholarships.
7 services
Thankful Baptist Church of Kennesaw is a Christian church in Kennesaw, Georgia. It offers worship, virtual Sunday school, virtual Bible study, youth ministries, job networking support, outreach, and rides to worship services through its D.R.I.V.E. ministry.
12 services
The Temple is a Reform Jewish synagogue in Midtown Atlanta. It offers worship, Jewish learning, preschool, community groups, mental and spiritual wellness support, and social justice volunteer work. Its campus is also connected to Zaban Paradies Center, which helps people facing homelessness, especially couples and families.
Downtown11 services
