104 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.
Medicare Rights Center is a national nonprofit that helps older adults, people with disabilities, families, caregivers, and professionals understand Medicare. They answer Medicare questions by phone, help people with coverage choices, appeals, bills, and cost-saving benefits, and publish clear Medicare education online.
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COLAGE is a national group for people who have one or more LGBTQ+ parents or caregivers. It helps children, teens, and adults connect with peers, join support spaces, build leadership, and take part in family and advocacy programs, including Atlanta Family Weekend.
10 services
Georgia Justice Project helps Georgians who are affected by the criminal legal system. They provide free legal help, social service support, criminal record clearing help, voting rights information, and policy advocacy to reduce barriers to jobs, housing, and reentry.
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PFLAG supports, educates, and advocates for LGBTQ+ people and the people who love them. Its PFLAG Connects groups offer free online support meetings, and PFLAG Black Metro Atlanta offers adult peer support, education, advocacy, and private meeting details for Black LGBTQ+ people, families, and allies in Metro Atlanta.
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Compassion & Choices is a national nonprofit that helps people plan for end-of-life care and understand their choices. They offer phone and email support, online tools, Spanish resources, physician consultation, advocacy, and public events, including Georgia-specific information about end-of-life laws.
10 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.
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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
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.
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WomenHeart is a national nonprofit for women living with or at risk for heart disease. It helps through peer support, virtual support groups, one-on-one matching, education, advocacy, and trained women volunteers called WomenHeart Champions.
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Her Story is Mine is a Black women-led organization that creates spaces for Black women and girls to share stories, build sisterhood, and support healing. It offers consultations, workshops, events, research, story sharing, and self-care resources.
7 services
Planned Parenthood Action Fund is the advocacy arm of Planned Parenthood. It works across the country to protect abortion access, sexual health care, voting rights, and reproductive rights through education, organizing, lobbying, voter information, and local action.
7 services
Lambda Legal is a national civil rights legal organization for LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV. Its Help Desk gives general legal information and resources about discrimination, but it is not an emergency service and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
6 services
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is a nonprofit legal and civil rights group for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, AMEMSA, and immigrant communities in Georgia and the Southeast. They help with immigration legal services, citizenship clinics, voter access, policy advocacy, civil rights lawsuits, community organizing, and some mutual aid like grocery distributions.
11 services
Alliance for Black NICU Families is a nonprofit listed in Sacramento, CA, that serves Black families with babies in the NICU or recently home from the NICU. They ship free wearable breast pumps to eligible families, work with hospital and nonprofit partners, and share NICU family resources, research, and advocacy information online.
5 services
Cancer Nation, formerly the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, is a national nonprofit that advocates for better cancer care. It helps cancer survivors, caregivers, and health professionals with free online tools, webinars, advocacy training, and policy work.
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First Liberty Institute is a national nonprofit legal organization based in Plano, Texas. It reviews religious freedom cases and may provide free legal help when a person, school, workplace, house of worship, or other group says their religious liberty was threatened.
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Open Door Community is a Christian justice community that began in Atlanta and now has headquarters in Baltimore. They no longer provide street hospitality in Atlanta, but they publish Hospitality, support people in prison, and advocate against poverty, racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ bias, and the death penalty.
Virginia Highland5 services
The Legal Defense Fund is a national civil rights legal organization that fights racial discrimination through law, research, advocacy, and public education. It may review requests for legal help, works on issues like voting rights, education, economic justice, and criminal justice, and also runs scholarship programs for undergraduate and law students.
Marietta Street Artery6 services
Trikone is a volunteer-led nonprofit for LGBTQ+ people of South Asian descent and their allies. It builds community through Bay Area gatherings, subgroups, advocacy, and the DeQH phone and email peer-support helpline for LGBTQ+ South Asians in the United States.
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