21 organizations
How equity and justice organizations work in Atlanta
Atlanta's civil-rights infrastructure is working infrastructure — these organizations don't just advocate, they take cases, fix records, and move policy. What lives here: civil-rights legal organizations that take discrimination cases (housing, employment, voting) free; voting access groups that fix registration problems and answer "can I vote?" for returning citizens (in Georgia, often yes once a sentence is complete — ask rather than assume); policy and organizing groups where showing up is the membership fee.
The practical note: advocacy organizations are also superb navigators. If a system has failed you the same way it fails your neighbors — a landlord, an agency, a jail — the organizing group working that issue often knows the fastest individual fix, too, because they've seen your story a hundred times.
What to expect when you reach out: intake for legal cases, a welcome for everything else. Deadlines matter in discrimination claims — call early even if you're unsure you have a case.
Transgender Law Center is a national trans-led civil rights group. It helps transgender and gender-nonconforming people through legal information, policy advocacy, lawsuits, community programs, and online resources. Its Legal Information Helpdesk gives basic information but does not give individual legal advice or representation through the helpdesk.
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If/When/How is a national reproductive justice legal organization. Its Repro Legal Helpline gives free, confidential legal information and advice about abortion, miscarriage, birth, self-managed abortion, and judicial bypass, and its legal defense work helps people facing investigation or charges related to abortion.
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Feminist Women's Health Center is now called Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation, and it is still the same nonprofit clinic in Atlanta. They provide abortion care, miscarriage care, wellness exams, STI and HIV testing, birth control, pregnancy testing, gender-affirming care, menopause care, postpartum care, and community education and advocacy.
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Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, also called FORCE, is a national nonprofit for people and families facing hereditary cancer risk. They help by phone and online with peer support, support meetings, webinars, genetic cancer information, and tools to find resources and health providers.
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THRIVE Lifeline is a trans-led nonprofit that offers non-police, non-carceral crisis and mental health support for adults with marginalized identities. Its official site says the text lifeline is temporarily down while they raise funds, and it points people to partner peer support groups, Discord communities, coping guides, and Stronger U programs in the meantime.
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Tahirih Justice Center helps immigrant survivors of gender-based violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault, forced marriage, human trafficking, and female genital cutting. They provide free and confidential legal help, social services case management, safety planning, and referrals in Atlanta and other U.S. cities.
Downtown8 services
Colorectal Cancer Alliance is a national nonprofit that helps people prevent, face, and survive colon and rectal cancer. They offer a free helpline, patient navigation, screening guidance, online support, peer matching, advocacy, and help finding financial and community resources.
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BIPOC Adult Industry Collective is a sex worker-led group for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color in the adult industry. They help with mutual aid, advocacy, education, mental health and wellness referrals, and support for people facing unsafe work, violence, eviction, or basic needs problems.
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Project HEAL is a national nonprofit that helps people get eating disorder care when cost, insurance, or discrimination blocks treatment. It offers treatment placement, cash help, short-term case management, virtual meal support, and a BIPOC community care program.
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ACLU of Georgia is a statewide civil rights group. It uses lawsuits, advocacy, voter rights work, public education, and volunteer action to protect civil liberties for people in Georgia. It does not usually provide direct legal aid for individual cases, but people can share rights violations and use its legal resource list.
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This listing appears to be for Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation, formerly Feminist Women’s Health Center, not Fulton County Board of Health. They are an Atlanta reproductive health clinic that provides abortion care, sexual health care, pregnancy testing, STI/HIV testing, birth control, miscarriage care, and gender-affirming care. They also run community education and reproductive justice programs.
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Georgia Innocence Project is a nonprofit law firm that helps people convicted in Georgia of serious crimes they say they did not commit. They review written requests, investigate strong innocence claims, provide free legal representation in some post-conviction cases, and support people after they are freed.
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The Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO) is Georgia's federally mandated Protection and Advocacy agency for people with disabilities and people labeled with mental illness. They protect people's rights by investigating abuse and neglect, fighting disability discrimination, and helping people get accommodations, assistive technology, and the support they need to live in their community. Help is free, and you can ask for advocacy by calling or filling out a request form on their website.
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The Georgia First Amendment Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit that defends the public's right to know how government works. They teach citizens, journalists, public officials, and lawyers how to use Georgia's open records, open meetings, and free speech laws, and they offer free guidance when someone is denied access to public records or meetings. They also publish plain-language guides and host trainings and events on government transparency.
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The Georgia Charitable Care Network is a statewide association that supports free and charitable health clinics serving people who are uninsured or low-income. For everyday people, the most useful thing they offer is a free online 'Find a Clinic' directory and map to locate a nearby clinic that gives care no matter your ability to pay. They also run a program that helps connect low-income Georgians with hearing aids.
Underwood Hills5 services
The organization at this address, phone, and website is YWCA Greater Atlanta, a nonprofit founded in 1902 that works to eliminate racism and empower women, girls, and families. It runs an on-site early learning and childcare academy, job-skills and digital-literacy training, a breast-health program for underserved women, and teen and women's leadership programs. ('Atlanta Children's Day Shelter, Inc.' appears to be an outdated or incorrect name for this listing — the separate Atlanta Children's Shelter is a different organization at North Avenue Presbyterian Church.)
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The Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence (GCADV) is a statewide organization that fights to end domestic violence. It runs Georgia's free, confidential 24-hour domestic violence hotline, which connects callers to local shelters and help in English, Spanish, and 200+ other languages, and it trains and supports the more than 50 domestic violence programs across the state. It also offers legal advocacy for survivors, including those who are incarcerated.
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This is the U.S. Department of Justice's ADA Information Line, run by the Civil Rights Division's Disability Rights Section. You can call free to ask how the Americans with Disabilities Act protects people with disabilities, get plain answers about your rights, and learn how to file a complaint if a business or government office treats you unfairly. Accessibility specialists answer your questions, and all calls are private.
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The Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC) is a nonprofit law center based in Los Angeles, California — the oldest disability-rights law center in the country, founded in 1975. It uses civil-rights lawsuits and advocacy to fight discrimination against people with disabilities and people affected by cancer, working mostly at the state and national level. It is not a local Atlanta organization and does not have a Georgia office.
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disABILITY LINK is the Center for Independent Living for metro Atlanta, a nonprofit run by and for people with disabilities. They help people live independently with advocacy, peer support, independent living skills, help moving out of nursing facilities, employment and benefits help, accessible housing and home modifications, assistive technology, a free loan closet for medical equipment, and travel training. Services are free and serve 12 metro-Atlanta counties.
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