The Urban League of Greater Atlanta has worked in metro Atlanta since 1920. Its Financial Empowerment & Economic Resilience Center is a one-stop place for emergency help with rent and bills, jobs, housing, small business help and money coaching. It also runs programs for young people and a water bill help program for DeKalb County.
BCM Georgia helps working families with school-age children stay in their homes. It offers emergency help with rent and utilities during a crisis. It also offers a 6-month online money class, and a 12-month housing support program called Foundation 3.
The Grove CDC is the nonprofit partner of The Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church in Atlanta. It helps people in crisis with free food, referrals, and emergency money help when funds are available. It also works on housing, education, and jobs for people in Metro Atlanta, including Grove Gardens at East Lake senior apartments.
Zion Hill CDC is a nonprofit in East Point that works to end homelessness and poverty, with a focus on South Fulton. It helps with rent, mortgage and utility bills, motel stays and rapid rehousing, free health insurance for those who qualify, and cash payments through FLOW + IDA. It also has a 2-1-1 center where you can look up other services.
This is Georgia's Crime Victims Compensation Program, part of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. It helps people hurt by violent crime pay for medical bills, counseling, funeral costs, lost income or support, and crime scene cleanup, up to $25,000 per victim. You can apply online or by mail.
Partnership for Community Action is a nonprofit that helps low-income families in DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale and Newton counties. It can help with emergency needs like rent, mortgage, utilities and emergency lodging, and with home heating and cooling bills when those programs are open. It also has a diaper program for families.
This is Georgia's state agency for family and children's services. It helps families apply for food benefits, cash help, and Medicaid. It also takes reports of child abuse, and it runs foster care and adoption services.
Fulton Atlanta Community Action Authority is a nonprofit that helps low-income people in Fulton County and the City of Atlanta. It helps with energy bills through LIHEAP and with emergency money help through an online application. It also offers empowerment classes.
Peace on the Move is a nonprofit that serves DeKalb County, Georgia. It works to fight hunger and housing trouble. It runs a food pantry, gives short-term money help to people in hardship, offers USDA food to older adults, and teaches kids to garden.
Giving Kitchen is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps food service workers who are in a crisis. It pays housing and utility bills directly for workers who qualify. It also connects workers to community help for things like health, jobs, housing and mental health.
I Will Survive, Inc. is a nonprofit led by veterans. It helps military-connected families who are at higher risk for breast cancer or are living with it. Help includes money support such as paying housing costs, wellness workshops, and mentoring with a peer who has been through it.
St. Vincent de Paul Georgia is a faith-based charity that works mostly through volunteers. It helps neighbors in a crisis with rent, utility bills, food, medicine, and housing. You start by calling the assistance line, which sends you to the local volunteer group for your ZIP code.
The Georgia Student Finance Commission is the state agency that runs Georgia's college and career school money programs, including HOPE and Zell Miller. It manages scholarships, grants, and loans that can be forgiven, and offers free help for families planning to pay for school. Details and applications for the state programs are on the GAfutures website.
The Entertainment Community Fund is a national nonprofit for people who work in theater, film, TV, music, dance and other entertainment. Its social workers offer counseling, health insurance help, career coaching and emergency money. The work is run through offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles and helps people across the country.
Zaban Paradies Center helps couples, families, and single people in Atlanta who have no home or may lose their home. It runs an emergency shelter for couples, gives one-time money help for rent and move-in costs, and holds a free Day Services program on Tuesdays.
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF) is a nonprofit that gives free legal help to qualified people. It helps with eviction and landlord problems and with protective orders for survivors of intimate partner abuse. Help starts with a phone call, not a visit to the main office.
The Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is a state agency. It runs money help and programs for crime victims, and it gives out grants for criminal justice and victim service groups. It also leads Georgia's work against human trafficking, including a statewide hotline.
GEMA/HS is Georgia's state agency for getting ready for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. Most of its help goes to local governments, agencies, schools, and nonprofits through grants and training. It also runs a case management program for Hurricane Helene survivors, shares FEMA sign-up steps after major federal disasters, and offers the Ready Georgia preparedness campaign and a suspicious-activity reporting app.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a group of church volunteers at Our Lady of Lourdes. They meet with people and families who are struggling and decide how to help with things like food, clothing, shelter and transportation costs. The help they can give depends on donations.
3D Girls, Inc. is a nonprofit in Northwest Atlanta that helps girls, mothers, and families. It runs Girls Link Up, a mentoring and STEAM program with camps for girls. It also runs Mom Circles Fellowship for mothers and caregivers, and an Emergency Assistance Program for families in its programs who face hardship.
