271 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Good Days is a national nonprofit that helps people with chronic or life-changing illnesses pay for care. It may help with medicine copays, travel to treatment, insurance premiums, and diagnostic testing when a person meets its rules and the disease fund is open.
6 services
CancerCare is a national nonprofit that helps people affected by cancer. They offer free phone help, resource navigation, online support groups, education, Spanish-language resources, and limited financial help for cancer-related costs like transportation, home care, and child care.
14 services
The Hailey Bankhead Foundation helps children with childhood cancer and their families. They offer care packages, emergency help, grocery and gas cards, meal vouchers, support groups, spiritual support, and activities that make treatment days easier.
7 services
American Kidney Fund is a national nonprofit that helps people with kidney disease and kidney failure. It gives financial grants for health insurance premiums, dialysis transportation, medicines, medical supplies, disaster needs, and other kidney-related costs.
7 services
United Military Care Inc. is a Marietta nonprofit that serves veterans, military families, caregivers, and survivors across Georgia. They help connect people to food, housing support, VA benefits guidance, emergency help, and veteran resource events.
8 services
Patient Advocate Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps people with serious, chronic, and life-threatening illnesses get and pay for care. They offer free case management, help with insurance denials and benefits, co-pay help, small financial grants, education tools, and resource lists.
18 services
Chai Lifeline helps children and families facing serious illness, loss, or crisis. It offers free case management, counseling, hospital and home support, meals, rides to medical appointments, tutoring, camps, activities, crisis help, and some emergency financial help.
13 services
CORE, formerly Children of Restaurant Employees, is a national nonprofit that helps food and beverage service workers with children during a crisis. It gives financial grants that may help pay for rent or mortgage, utilities, food, prescriptions, medical equipment, child care, funeral costs, and other basic needs.
7 services
Operation Homefront is a national nonprofit that helps military and veteran families stay stable. It offers emergency financial help, housing programs, school supplies, holiday meals, baby supplies, toys, and family events.
13 services
Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is a state agency that supports Georgia's criminal justice system and victim services. It helps victims of violent crime apply for money for medical bills, counseling, funeral costs, lost income, and other approved costs, and it also manages grants, research, human trafficking coordination, and victim-service programs across Georgia.
9 services
The Salvation Army Atlanta Temple Corps is a faith-based community center on North Druid Hills Road. It helps neighbors in need with free groceries from its food pantry, emergency assistance, clothing, and family and youth programs. Anyone facing hardship can ask for help, no matter their age or background.
5 services
Duluth Cooperative Ministry (Hands of Christ), known as the Duluth Co-op, is a community food pantry serving families in Duluth ZIP codes 30096 and 30097. They give out free groceries — fresh produce, bread, meat, and canned goods — by appointment twice a month, and also offer limited rent and utility bill help, holiday meals, school supplies, ESOL classes, and job referrals. (Note: this listing was filed as 'Food Finder GA' but is actually the Duluth Co-op.)
7 services
St. Vincent de Paul Georgia is a Catholic charity that has helped Georgians in need since 1903. The Council Office is the central headquarters that runs the statewide assistance line, a free pharmacy, food distribution, and emergency help with rent, utilities, and other basic needs. When you call, you give your ZIP code and are connected to the local volunteer chapter for your area.
9 services
The Salvation Army Metro Atlanta Area Command is a faith-based charity that helps people across 13 metro-Atlanta counties who are facing a crisis. They offer emergency help with rent, utilities, and food, shelter for people who are homeless, youth programs, and holiday and disaster assistance. To get financial or rent help, you call to set up an appointment at one of their assistance centers.
10 services
Emmaus House is a faith-rooted community organization in Atlanta's Peoplestown neighborhood that works to help families move out of poverty. They run a food pantry, give emergency help with rent and utilities, offer case management, and provide education programs for children, youth, and adults.
8 services
DEAM (Decatur-area Emergency Assistance Ministry) is a faith-based nonprofit run by 18 area churches that helps neighbors facing an emergency. By appointment, they give out emergency food and toiletries, help pay overdue water, gas, and electric bills, and help cover prescription costs. They also serve free weekday lunches to people who are unhoused.
5 services
Clayton County Community Services Authority is a nonprofit community action agency that has fought poverty in the south metro Atlanta area since 1966. They help low-income families and seniors pay their power, gas, rent, and food bills, weatherize homes, and offer free early childhood education through Head Start. They serve Clayton, Henry, and Fayette counties.
6 services
The Center for Family Resources (CFR) helps Cobb County families who are facing or close to homelessness. They offer rent and bill help to prevent eviction, a choice food pantry where you pick your own groceries, apartment placement, and job and savings coaching to help families get back on their feet.
6 services
Partnership for Community Action is a nonprofit Community Action Agency in Decatur that helps low-income families in DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton, and Walton counties become more stable. They are best known for paying part of your home heating or cooling bill (LIHEAP), and they also offer emergency help, case management, free diapers, and job support. (Note: the name 'MUST Ministries' on file is incorrect for this phone/address.)
8 services
The Salvation Army Atlanta International Corps is a faith-based church and service center in Doraville that helps immigrant and international families, with staff who speak Korean and Spanish. They run a food pantry on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and offer help with rent, utilities, clothing, school supplies, and holiday assistance. You call (404) 486-2820 to set up an appointment for financial help.
7 services
