271 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, also called SnapCo, is a Black trans and queer-led group in Atlanta. They build community safety without police and offer programs like emergency mutual aid, record-clearing help, passport and ID support, member safety tools, political education, and community events.
12 services
Myositis Support and Understanding (MSU) is a national patient-led nonprofit for people living with myositis and their care partners. It helps with education, online support groups, advocacy, research opportunities, and a financial assistance program for eligible U.S. patients.
12 services
Green Beret Foundation is a national nonprofit that supports U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers, veterans, and their families. It helps with emergency needs, health and mental wellness, family support, scholarships, VA claims, transition to civilian life, and support for Gold Star families.
13 services
The Daisy DACA Foundation is a nonprofit that helps DACA recipients and immigrant young people in the United States. Its website says it offers financial aid to current DACA recipients and has also funded a scholarship for non-citizen undergraduate students.
3 services
The Bail Project is a national nonprofit that helps low-income people get out of jail before trial by paying bail for free in selected places. They also help clients remember court dates, get to court, and connect with support services. News reports say they closed their Atlanta branch in June 2024, so people in Georgia should confirm whether help is available before applying.
3 services
Nurses House is a nurse-managed nonprofit that helps registered nurses across the United States. It gives short-term grants to nurses who cannot work because of illness, injury, or disability, mainly to help with rent or mortgage payments.
5 services
Baby Quest Foundation gives grants to help people pay for fertility treatments they cannot afford. Grants may help with IVF, egg or sperm donation, embryo donation, egg freezing, and gestational surrogacy, and applications are reviewed during set grant cycles.
7 services
Dramatists Guild Foundation is a national charity for theater writers, including playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists. It helps with emergency and short-term grants, free writing space, mentoring, fellowships, and programs that connect writers with theater communities across the United States.
8 services
The Salvation Army Metro Atlanta Area Command is the regional Salvation Army office serving the Atlanta area. It helps people facing crisis with food, clothing, rent or mortgage help, utility help, shelter, youth programs, recovery programs, disaster relief, and other basic needs through local Corps and service centers.
11 services
The Loveland Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps Black women and nonbinary people get mental health support. Its main program, the Loveland Therapy Fund, helps pay for therapy by giving approved participants vouchers for sessions with licensed therapists in the United States.
6 services
UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation gives medical grants to families with children age 16 or younger across the United States. The grants help pay for health care services and medical needs that are not covered, or not fully covered, by the family's commercial health insurance.
5 services
The Actors Fund is now called the Entertainment Community Fund, and its own site says it continues The Actors Fund services. It helps people who work in performing arts and entertainment with health insurance counseling, emergency financial help, mental health referrals, housing information, and career support. Its health insurance help is available nationally, including to people in Georgia, by phone or online portal.
10 services
USBG National Charity Foundation is a national nonprofit that supports bartenders and other service industry workers. It runs education, wellness, volunteer, fundraising, and hardship grant programs, but its BEAP emergency grant page says the program is seeking funding and will post updates if it reopens.
4 services
Special Needs Siblings, Inc. supports brothers and sisters of people with disabilities and their families. They offer online support groups, resource intake, sibling workshops, hardship help, and community events focused on sibling support.
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The Lois Merrill Foundation helps people affected by carcinoid and other rare cancers. Its website says it has funded medical grants for patients and grants for research and education, but it is pausing grant funding for the next couple of years while it rebuilds fundraising.
2 services
The Shannon Foundation is a Denver-based nonprofit that helps pay for medical care for children whose families cannot afford it. It works through hospital social workers across the country and has helped pay for medicine, tests, procedures, equipment, hospital visits, surgery, co-pays, chemotherapy, and physical therapy.
2 services
Clayton County DFCS is the local county office of Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services. It helps people apply for public benefits like SNAP, Medicaid, and TANF, and it handles child protective services, foster care, and related family support services.
12 services
Mighty Oakes Heart Foundation helps families of children with congenital heart defects. They give grants and personal support so parents can pay bills and stay focused on their child during long hospital stays. Their listed service area is tied to partner hospitals in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois, not Atlanta.
5 services
Indigenous Women Rising is an Indigenous-led reproductive justice organization based in New Mexico. It helps Native and Indigenous people with abortion funding, reproductive care, and birthing support, and it sends menstrual products and contraception through its MoonPie Fund.
6 services
Project Purple is a nonprofit that helps people with pancreatic cancer and funds research. It can help eligible patients pay bills like rent, mortgage, utilities, medical bills, copays, and prescriptions, and it also offers meal help and comfort blankets.
7 services
