Caring For Others is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps families with food, clothing, shoes, toys, holiday meals and disaster relief. People who live in certain ZIP codes can get emergency food on weekdays, and clothing help comes through an agency referral.
SWEEAC is a nonprofit that started in 1988 when churches and volunteers in Southwest Atlanta joined together to fight hunger. It runs a food pantry that gives free groceries to families and individuals, including a monthly food box program just for seniors. It also hands out clothing, baby supplies, household items, and school supplies to people going through hard times.
Berean Outreach Ministries Center is an Atlanta nonprofit that gives out free groceries, including fresh produce, dairy, and frozen meat, to children, families, and seniors in need. It also connects people with partner organizations for clothing, education, job, and health resources, and runs special food drives and holiday giveaways.
Dorothy's Helping Hands is a nonprofit food pantry in Atlanta. It was started in 2013 to help homeless and low-income families in the Metro Atlanta area. It hands out food boxes twice a month at Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church and gives toys to children at Christmas.
Emmaus House works to improve life for people in Peoplestown and nearby south Atlanta neighborhoods. Its Lokey Help Center at 27 Haygood Ave SW offers a food pantry, SNAP application help, rent and utility help, Georgia ID vouchers, and more. It also runs youth, family, and job-training programs.
This ministry serves homeless and less fortunate men, women, children and veterans around Metro Atlanta. It offers counseling, job outreach, free classes, and gives out clothes, shoes, blankets and holiday meals and toys. It also gives referrals for emergency housing.
Dress for Success Georgia, also called Dress for Success Atlanta, helps women reach economic independence. It offers professional clothing, career counseling and workforce training, and support that continues after a woman finds a job. Clients can also join virtual and in-person classes.
, is a group in South Cobb County. It hands out food every Wednesday at its Austell location. Each year it also gives out Thanksgiving dinners, back-to-school bags and Christmas baskets.
Enough to Share is a volunteer-run food pantry. It gives out groceries on the first and third Wednesday of each month. It also holds Saturday pantry days on selected dates, with deliveries for people who are sick or shut in, and it offers ways for adults and youth to volunteer.
Each One Teach One Together is an Atlanta nonprofit that supports birth, foster and adoptive parents, and grandparents and other relatives raising children. It offers parenting classes and workshops, support meetings, help finding resources, and a food pantry with posted days and hours.
Families First is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps families get stronger. It offers counseling and a psychiatry clinic for youth, case managers who connect families to services like housing, health care and jobs, and parenting and adoption classes. It also holds community events, like a yearly Back-to-School Bash with free school supplies and groceries.
Atlanta CASA trains community volunteers to speak up for children in Fulton County foster care. Volunteers learn about each child's life and give advice to the juvenile court judge. Adults 21 and older can sign up to train as volunteers.
The King Center is a nonprofit in Atlanta that teaches Dr.'s ideas of nonviolence. People can visit its free campus, take nonviolence trainings, use classroom resources, or do research in its archives. Students, teachers, and volunteers can join its programs.
Piedmont Park Conservancy is a nonprofit that works with the City of Atlanta to care for Piedmont Park. It runs classes, camps, walks, a Saturday green market and volunteer days. It also rents event spaces in the park.
Easterseals North Georgia is a nonprofit that helps babies and young children, with and without disabilities, and their families. It runs childcare and early learning centers, early intervention, autism services and mental health care for young children. It also offers family support and money help for children with special needs.
Easterseals North Georgia helps young children, mostly from birth to age 5, and their families. It runs inclusive childcare and early learning centers, early intervention therapy, autism services, and children's mental health care. It also has a financial help program for children with special needs.
Cascade United Methodist Church is a church with two Atlanta locations, one in Southwest Atlanta and one in Midtown. Its Community Fund can pay up to $1,000 toward past-due rent or mortgage and up to $350 toward a past-due utility bill for people in Fulton or DeKalb County. It is not emergency help. The church also holds worship services, takes prayer requests, and offers a GriefShare group for adults who have lost a loved one.
Making A Way Housing is a nonprofit in southwest Atlanta that has served single homeless adults since 2002. It offers emergency shelter, transitional housing and sober supportive housing, along with case management, HIV prevention and health education, job and life skills help, and a food pantry for residents.
Hosea Helps is an Atlanta nonprofit that has served the community since 1971. At its Forrest Hills Drive headquarters, families can get free emergency groceries and help applying for food stamps. Staff also check whether a household can get help with rent, utilities and other costs. It also runs job help, programs for children, holiday meal events and deliveries to apartment communities and schools.
REDEEMED Outreach is a West End nonprofit that has worked in the neighborhood since 1994. It runs a housing program for single working women, plus community gardens, job training in farming, a farmers market and neighborhood watch work. People can also volunteer, including those who need court-ordered community service hours.