Housing & Shelter

Operation First Response is a nonprofit based in Culpeper, Virginia. It helps active-duty service members, active-duty first responders, Gold Star families, and some veterans with emergency costs, recovery support, training, hygiene items, and memorial projects.

7 services

Fisher House Foundation helps service members, veterans, and their families when a loved one is getting medical care. It builds and supports free family lodging near military and VA medical centers, and also runs travel, hotel, scholarship, and grant programs.

7 services

DebtHelper, also called Debthelper.com, is a nonprofit credit, debt, and housing counseling agency. They help people review budgets, deal with credit card debt, take bankruptcy education courses, understand credit reports, get housing counseling, and look at student loan options by phone, online, or in person at their offices.

10 services

Atlanta Habitat for Humanity helps people buy safe, affordable homes in Atlanta and South Fulton. They also offer home repairs, money coaching, scholarships for eligible Habitat families, ReStore thrift shops, and volunteer build opportunities.

6 services

Antioch Urban Ministries, Inc. is a nonprofit in Atlanta that helps people with food and other basic needs. It runs a food bank, clothing help, senior support, youth mentoring, and supportive housing programs.

English Avenue7 services

PTSD Foundation of America helps combat veterans and their families deal with PTSD and the unseen wounds of war. It runs Camp Hope in Houston, a free 6-to-9-month housing and recovery program, plus virtual navigation, support groups, peer mentoring, crisis support, and outreach chapters.

8 services

National Faith Homebuyers is a HUD-approved nonprofit with an Atlanta-area branch in Marietta. They help people buy homes through housing counseling, homebuyer education, Georgia Dream help, down payment assistance, and free foreclosure prevention counseling.

5 services

Gary Sinise Foundation is a national nonprofit that supports veterans, active-duty service members, first responders, wounded heroes, and families of fallen heroes. It helps through custom accessible homes, home modifications, mobility equipment, mental wellness support, first responder grants, meals, concerts, and family events.

14 services

National Foundation for Debt Management is a nonprofit credit and housing counseling agency. It helps people by phone, online, and sometimes in person with debt management, credit counseling, money education, homebuyer counseling, and reverse mortgage counseling.

7 services

United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They help people live in community homes or host homes, get support at home, join adult day programs, and receive nursing, behavior, advocacy, and other support services.

6 services

Zion Hill Community Development Corporation is a nonprofit in East Point that works to reduce homelessness and poverty in metro Atlanta, with a focus on South Fulton. It helps with rent, mortgage, utilities, motel stays, rapid rehousing, food gift cards, health insurance enrollment, financial coaching, and referrals through a 2-1-1 resource center.

7 services

SERCAP helps low-income people and rural communities with safe water, septic systems, housing, small business support, and community development. In Georgia, it works through GA RCAP to provide training, technical help, and financing help for rural water and wastewater systems and related projects.

13 services

The Drake House helps single mothers and their children in North Fulton who are experiencing homelessness. It provides short-term furnished housing, basic needs, mentoring, classes, career help, and a next-step affordable housing program.

12 services

Air Force Aid Society is now called Air & Space Forces Aid Society. It is a national nonprofit that helps eligible Air Force and Space Force members, retirees, spouses, and dependents with emergency money, education help, child care support, and other family programs.

11 services

The Salvation Army Metro Atlanta Area Command is a faith-based nonprofit serving people across metro Atlanta. It helps with shelter, food, rent and utility help, youth programs, disaster relief, and recovery support.

Historic Westin Heights/Bankhead10 services

Infinite Strength helps young women ages 18 to 49 who are living with metastatic breast cancer. They give financial grants for basic needs, connect patients with resources, and run support and education programs. Their current grant program serves Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont, not Georgia.

5 services