Money & Benefits

Ascendus is a nonprofit lender that helps small business owners get loans and coaching. It works with entrepreneurs who may have trouble getting bank loans, including many women, immigrants, and people of color.

6 services

Apprisen is a nonprofit financial counseling agency. It helps people make a budget, review debt, improve credit, plan for housing costs, and understand bankruptcy options. Help is available online, by phone, virtually, and at some offices outside Georgia.

11 services

Southern Smoke Foundation helps food and beverage workers who are in crisis. It gives emergency grants for basic needs and offers no-cost counseling in some states through university partners.

6 services

The Aubrey Rose Foundation is a Cincinnati nonprofit that helps sick children and their families. It helps pay unpaid medical bills for children with life-threatening medical conditions and gives private high school scholarships to 8th-grade students in Greater Cincinnati.

5 services

The U.S. Coast Guard Gold Star Program supports surviving family members of Coast Guard members who died while on active duty. It helps families stay connected to the Coast Guard community, get news and event invitations, request Gold Star and Next of Kin pins, and find official records needed for benefits questions.

3 services

Tallatoona Community Action Partnership, Inc. is a community action agency serving northwest Georgia. It helps low-income households with utility bills, weatherization, Head Start and Early Head Start, case management, job help, GED support, budgeting, and referrals.

11 services

The Assistance Fund (TAF) is a national charity that helps people with serious or long-term diseases pay health costs. It can help eligible insured patients with copays, coinsurance, deductibles, insurance premiums, treatment costs, travel for care, and other disease-related expenses.

9 services

One Percent for America is a national nonprofit that helps immigrants pay USCIS citizenship application fees with a 1% APR loan. Services are online only, with customer support in English and Spanish. Its loans are currently licensed in CA, FL, IL, KS, ME, MA, NJ, NY, SC, and TX, so Georgia residents do not appear to be eligible today.

3 services

Move For Jenn Foundation is a nonprofit based in Charlotte, North Carolina. It gives grants for activewear prosthetics to people who lost a limb to sarcoma and funds sarcoma research, awareness, advocacy, and patient support.

7 services

The Lymphoma Research Foundation is a national nonprofit for people affected by lymphoma and CLL. It gives free information, phone and email support, peer support, treatment navigation, education programs, and limited grants for treatment-related costs.

9 services

The Stroke Foundation is a nonprofit that helps stroke survivors, caregivers, and families after a stroke. It offers grants for recovery therapy and in-home care, free online talk therapy vouchers, medical bill help through Dollar For, speech and cognitive therapy access through nyra, and free stroke education resources. Its services appear to be national and mostly online; the site lists a mailing address in Sugar Land, Texas.

6 services

The Georgia Department of Revenue is the state agency that handles Georgia taxes, tax refunds, tax credits, unclaimed property, alcohol and tobacco rules, and motor vehicle tags and titles. Most help is online or by phone, and some in-person tax and motor vehicle services are available by appointment.

6 services

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church is a parish group that helps people and families going through hardship. Members meet with people to decide what help is possible, including help with food, clothing, shelter costs, and transportation costs.

Old Fourth Ward3 services

Credit.org is a nonprofit financial counseling and education agency. It helps people with credit, debt, budgeting, housing counseling, renter education, foreclosure prevention, and homebuyer education by phone, online, and through offices in several states.

13 services

Courage Under Cancer Foundation is an Arizona-based nonprofit that helps Arizona residents who are battling cancer. It gives one-time financial help, paid directly to a company or biller, for needs like rent, utilities, medical bills, medicine, travel to doctor visits, and car costs.

4 services

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