13 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
The National Collegiate Cancer Foundation helps young adults whose lives have been affected by cancer. It gives need-based scholarships to college, university, and vocational students who are cancer survivors or who lost a parent or guardian to cancer.
3 services
Onward Ops, also called The ETS Sponsorship Program, helps active duty service members move into civilian life as new veterans. It connects them with trained sponsors, transition tools, local resources, and guidance for work, school, health care, disability, family, and legal needs.
4 services
Seeds of Fortune is a nonprofit online and hybrid program for students, especially young people from under-resourced communities. It helps students prepare for college, find scholarships and grants, learn money skills, build careers, and join leadership and business programs.
6 services
The National GRACE Foundation helps pediatric cancer patients and survivors get ready for college. They give free help with college admissions, financial aid, essays, scholarships, and advocacy with schools.
5 services
The Children and Family Programs at Kennesaw State University helps KSU student parents, local families, children, teachers, and professionals. It offers parent training, behavioral support, social skills groups for children ages 5 to 12, school support, workshops, and online training tied to child and family mental health.
9 services
H.O.P.E, Inc. helps low-income single parents in Metro Atlanta stay in college and finish a two-year or four-year degree. They help with rent, childcare, budget coaching, counseling, and referrals to other resources, but their website says applications are currently closed while they work through a large queue.
7 services
CogniTutor is a tutoring and learning-support company. It helps children, teens, college students, and adults with school subjects, test prep, study skills, life skills, enrichment lessons, and custom programs for schools, nonprofits, child welfare groups, community centers, and businesses.
4 services
This is the Georgia Student Finance Commission (GSFC), the state agency that helps Georgia students pay for college and technical school. It runs the HOPE and Zell Miller scholarships and grants, manages the GAfutures website, and offers state grants and student loans. (Note: this listing was mislabeled as 'Georgia State University' and as a mental health/crisis service — it is neither.)
7 services
Veterans Upward Bound at Georgia State University is a free, federally funded program that helps U.S. military veterans get ready for college or a GED. They offer brushup classes in subjects like math, reading, and writing, plus help with college applications, financial aid, and VA education benefits. It is run by Georgia State's Military Outreach Center in downtown Atlanta. (Note: the file name 'National Association of Veterans Upward Bound' is the staff professional association; the actual local service for veterans here is GSU's Veterans Upward Bound program.)
4 services
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), through its VFW Foundation, runs the national Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship. It gives service members and veterans up to $5,000 to help pay for college tuition and fees so they can finish school without heavy student loan debt. This is a national program open by online application, not a local Atlanta office.
1 service
The Thurman Perry Foundation is a national nonprofit (based in Louisiana, serving women nationwide) that helps women and girls impacted by incarceration. They give college scholarships to formerly incarcerated women and daughters of incarcerated parents, provide free period products to women in jails and prisons, and help justice-impacted mothers pay rent or mortgage.
4 services
The Georgia VECTR Center is a state-funded, one-stop center in Warner Robins that helps service members, veterans, and their families move into civilian jobs and school. Free coaches help with career counseling, resume and job-search help, college and training enrollment, VA education benefits, testing, and connections to housing, health, and other community resources. State and federal partners like the Georgia Department of Veterans Service are housed on-site to help with VA and state benefits.
9 services
My Sister's Keeper Foundation for Women (MSK) is a volunteer-run nonprofit in Conyers that helps women and girls grow personally and professionally. They offer leadership and life coaching, programs for female students, and the Margaret G. Baker Second Chance Award scholarship for women going back to school. They also host empowerment conferences and community events for women and girls.
5 services
