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.
Sikh Family Center is a national U.S. nonprofit that helps Sikh and Punjabi community members, especially people affected by domestic violence, sexual violence, family violence, and trauma. They offer a free Punjabi-English non-emergency helpline, safety and resource referrals, prevention education, listening circles, and training for organizations.
9 services
Tigerlily Foundation is a national nonprofit that supports young women before, during, and after cancer, with a focus on breast cancer and health equity. It offers education, advocacy training, peer navigation, wellness events, and tools to help people understand care options and ask for support.
11 services
The Spina Bifida Association is a national nonprofit that helps people with Spina Bifida, their families, caregivers, and providers. Its National Resource Center answers questions in English and Spanish, helps people find clinics, chapters, support communities, local services, and health information.
10 services
Nalgona Positivity Pride is an online grassroots eating disorder awareness and harm reduction organization for Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. It offers peer support groups, education, courses, speaking, and events about eating disorders, body image, colonialism, race, and mental health.
7 services
Polaris is a national nonprofit that works to prevent sex and labor trafficking. It no longer runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline as of December 8, 2025; today it focuses on survivor-led research, policy work, training, financial support models, and anti-trafficking data projects.
11 services
Street Grace is a nonprofit that works to stop the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children. They help at-risk youth and adult survivors through a 24/7 hotline, referrals, care coordination, prevention training, legal advocacy, and technology projects that deter buyers online.
12 services
GO2 for Lung Cancer is a national lung cancer support and advocacy organization. It helps people with lung cancer, people at risk, caregivers, and loved ones with a free helpline, treatment and trial navigation, peer support, online groups, education, and advocacy.
10 services
The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, or ASAP, is a national nonprofit membership group for asylum seekers in the United States. Members get free immigration updates, online legal information, help asking asylum-related questions, and ways to take part in advocacy for a fairer asylum system.
7 services
The Hearing Loss Association of America is a national nonprofit for people with hearing loss and people at risk of hearing loss. It helps through education, advocacy, online resources, webinars, local chapters, peer support, and events like Walk4Hearing.
8 services
Black Women's Health Imperative is a national nonprofit that works to improve the health and wellness of Black women and girls. They help through health education, policy advocacy, research, lifestyle coaching, HIV prevention resources, reproductive health work, maternal health work, and public events or campaigns.
13 services
Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA is a national grassroots network for the rights and safety of sex workers and their communities. It helps through advocacy, education, community support, resource sharing, and work to end violence and stigma.
5 services
Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance is a national nonprofit that helps people affected by schizophrenia and psychosis disorders. They offer a free phone resource line, online peer and caregiver support groups, education, research, and policy advocacy. They do not provide medical care, legal advice, appointments, or direct referrals.
10 services
GI Rights Network runs the GI Rights Hotline, a free and confidential hotline for service members, veterans, people thinking about joining the military, and their families. Trained civilian counselors explain military rules and options for discharges, AWOL or UA, conscientious objection, complaints, recruiter pressure, and related issues.
7 services
BlackLine is a national phone and text support line for people in crisis or people who have faced mistreatment by police, vigilantes, stores, or other public spaces. It centers Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, Black femmes, Native people, Brown people, and Muslim communities, but says no one is turned away.
7 services
The Trevor Project is a national nonprofit that helps LGBTQ+ young people who feel alone, unsafe, or in crisis. Trained counselors answer by phone, text, and chat 24/7, and the group also offers peer support, online resources, trainings, research, and advocacy.
10 services
Frontline Doulas is a Black-led perinatal health program based in Culver City, California. They connect Black pregnant and postpartum families with Black doulas, offer a no-cost national doula warm line, and run Los Angeles County programs that train doulas and help families learn about Medi-Cal doula care.
4 services
LatinoJustice PRLDEF is a national civil rights legal organization serving Latino communities in all 50 states and U.S. territories. It uses lawsuits, policy advocacy, community education, leadership programs, and a bilingual hotline to help with civil rights problems, immigrant rights, voting rights, workplace issues, housing access, and criminal legal reform.
12 services
The Amputee Coalition is a national nonprofit for people with limb loss and limb difference, their families, caregivers, veterans, and professionals. It gives free information, peer support, healthcare navigation, support groups, youth programs, and advocacy help by phone and online.
14 services
Know Your Rights Camp is a national group that supports Black and Brown communities through education, youth camps, rights information, and legal resources. It offers an online legal help form, a rights app, and a free autopsy program for some in-custody or suspicious deaths.
6 services
NOVA is now called the National Organization for Victim Advocacy; it changed its name from National Organization for Victim Assistance in 2024. It trains and credentials victim advocates, supports crisis response teams, works on victims' rights policy, and offers resources for groups that help people harmed by crime and crisis.
11 services
