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Construction Angels Inc is a national nonprofit that helps families after a construction worker dies in a work-related accident. They give emergency financial help, help pay for grief counseling, and offer construction-related scholarships.

7 services

The American Indian College Fund is a national nonprofit based in Denver, not Atlanta. It helps American Indian and Alaska Native students pay for college with scholarships and supports tribal colleges with student success, transfer, career, wellness, research, and culture programs.

8 services

Special Needs Cobb is a nonprofit in Marietta that helps people with developmental disabilities and their families. They provide resource guidance, respite referrals, educational workshops, and long-term accessible group homes for adults with developmental disabilities.

8 services

Apprisen is a nonprofit financial counseling agency. It helps people make a budget, review debt, improve credit, plan for housing costs, and understand bankruptcy options. Help is available online, by phone, virtually, and at some offices outside Georgia.

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Mary Rose Foundation is an Oregon-based nonprofit focused on eating disorders. It helps by offering education and prevention work, and it has a treatment scholarship program, but the official treatment page says scholarships are currently closed.

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The Aubrey Rose Foundation is a Cincinnati nonprofit that helps sick children and their families. It helps pay unpaid medical bills for children with life-threatening medical conditions and gives private high school scholarships to 8th-grade students in Greater Cincinnati.

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Tallatoona Community Action Partnership, Inc. is a community action agency serving northwest Georgia. It helps low-income households with utility bills, weatherization, Head Start and Early Head Start, case management, job help, GED support, budgeting, and referrals.

11 services

Nurse-Family Partnership is a free home visiting program for people pregnant with their first baby. It connects first-time moms and families with a registered nurse who gives support during pregnancy and until the child turns 2.

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American Indian Education Fund (AIEF) is a program of Partnership With Native Americans. It helps Native American students across the United States with scholarships, school supplies, literacy support, laptops, care packages, mentoring, and leadership development.

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The Georgia National Guard runs the Georgia Youth ChalleNGe Program for Georgia teens ages 16 to 18 who are having trouble finishing high school. The program is free and residential, using school, mentoring, discipline, leadership, life skills, and job training to help young people earn a GED or high school diploma and plan their next step.

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Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch is a nonprofit residential community for school-aged children, based near Amarillo, Texas. It helps children and families with residential care, in-home family support near Amarillo, school, counseling-style support, activities, and faith-based care at no cost to the people served.

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Special Education Advocacy is Larry Martin Davis's education advocacy practice for parents of students with disabilities, IEPs, 504 plans, behavior needs, gifted education needs, and school evaluations. It helps families understand school processes, prepare for meetings, negotiate plans, and get direct advocacy support by phone, Zoom, Skype, email, or in person when possible.

7 services

The National Federation of the Blind is a national membership and advocacy group led by blind people. It helps blind adults, children, and families through advocacy, information, support, braille and literacy programs, technology work, scholarships, and programs that build independence.

7 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

Help America Hear is a nonprofit that helps people with hearing loss get prescription hearing aids when they cannot afford them. It serves people nationwide and also offers a scholarship for high school seniors with hearing loss.

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East Atlanta Kids Club is a nonprofit youth program based at Brownwood Recreation Center in southeast Atlanta. It helps kids and teens with after-school learning, STEAM activities, sports, summer camp, counseling support, food distribution, and community events.

East Atlanta7 services

The Helping Hand Project supports children and families in the limb difference community. They use 3D printing to make free recreational upper-limb devices, connect families through events, and share education and resources.

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Credit.org is a nonprofit financial counseling and education agency. It helps people with credit, debt, budgeting, housing counseling, renter education, foreclosure prevention, and homebuyer education by phone, online, and through offices in several states.

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