FOCUS Atlanta, also called Loaves & Fishes, is an Orthodox Christian center on Cherokee Ave SE. It is open on weekdays with coffee, a hot breakfast, and a lunch to take with you. It also has clothing and hygiene items, and partner groups bring in things like haircuts, a weekly mobile health clinic, foot care, mail service, and social workers.
Angie's Kitchen is a nonprofit that helps people who are homeless or struggling with money. It serves free hot meals on weekday mornings and gives out take-home food bags, clothing and hygiene items when they have them. Staff can also point you to help with housing, SNAP, addiction recovery and health care.
Mobile Showers Atlanta is a nonprofit that parks a trailer with four private shower and restroom suites at a set spot each Saturday. Anyone who needs a shower can come, and visitors also get a hygiene bag and can look over clothing and other items. Volunteers also serve food and drinks to neighbors.
First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta is a Midtown church whose Community Ministries serves neighbors who are homeless or low-income. The Venable Food Market is a free grocery pantry where clients choose their own food. The church also serves a hot Sunday breakfast and offers help with IDs and birth certificates, clothing, hygiene items, showers for men, and a mail room.
Rebecca's Tent is a free winter shelter for single women 18 and older who have no home. It is the only women's shelter in DeKalb County. Up to 10 women stay each winter and get a bed, meals, showers, laundry and weekly help with finding work and housing. Day services and follow-up help continue all year.
The Beloved Community Development Corporation is a nonprofit in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Atlanta that runs a food pantry. It gives out boxes of groceries on Sundays and by appointment on Thursdays, and one listing says it also offers a day shelter and hygiene kits on request.
Bashor Homeless Mens Shelter is a winter night shelter for homeless men in downtown Atlanta. It is open every night from November 1 through March 31. Guests get a hot dinner, a bag lunch, breakfast, a shower, and medical and foot care. Volunteers run the whole shelter.
Intown Cares works to end homelessness and hunger in Intown Atlanta. It runs a pantry where you choose your own groceries twice a week, and it delivers food to people who cannot get there. Its team also helps people who are homeless move into housing and keeps helping after they move in.
StandUp for Kids – Atlanta is a local chapter of a national group that helps young people who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing. Trained volunteers mentor students at school twice a month. Young people can also call a non-emergency helpline and get a call back within 24 hours.
Family Life is a nonprofit food pantry in Hapeville. It gives food, hygiene items and basic needs like toilet paper to people in need in Hapeville, College Park and East Point. You must qualify and sign up by phone before you come.
TLWL is a support community for people who have been through hard things like abuse, addiction, grief, homelessness, or jail. It offers free classes, wellness workshops, group support, and care packages. You can also sign up to volunteer.
Covenant House Georgia helps young people ages 18 to 24 who are homeless or escaping trafficking. It has a crisis shelter, longer-term apartment housing, health care and counseling, school and job help, and street outreach. A young person who needs shelter can call the youth line.
Covenant House Georgia helps young people ages 18 to 24 who are homeless or escaping trafficking. It runs a youth shelter, housing programs, street outreach, a drop-in center, health and counseling care, and help with school and jobs. Every young person gets a case manager.
ShowGlo Wellness is a Christian nonprofit in Metro Atlanta. It puts on grief and wellness gatherings, collects basic items for homeless men, and lines up volunteers for outreach. People can also send a request for help and be pointed to local resources.
Hosea Helps is an Atlanta nonprofit that has helped families since 1971. At its headquarters it gives out free emergency groceries and helps people apply for SNAP. It also helps families avoid losing their homes, brings food and services to apartment communities and schools, and runs job and holiday events.
First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta is a church in Midtown, next to the High Museum. Its Community Ministries runs the Venable Food Market, a free pantry where Midtown neighbors pick out their own groceries. The church also offers children's and youth programs, a weekday childcare program for babies and toddlers, and Sunday worship.
First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta is a church in Midtown, next to the High Museum. Through its Community Ministries, it runs the Venable Food Market, a free grocery pantry where clients choose their own food. It also has Sunday worship, kids and youth ministries, and a weekday childcare program for babies and toddlers.
Feeding GA Families is a nonprofit that gives free food to families and people in need. They run food pantries, emergency food boxes, and home food deliveries for seniors, people with medical needs, and children. They also share hot meals and care kits with people without housing, and they connect people to other basic help.
Family Life Restoration Center is a Mableton nonprofit that has helped families in metro Atlanta since 2006. It runs a food pantry, a clothing closet, and a hot lunch program, and it offers shower and housing help. In hot weather it also opens a cooling center.
Purpose Fulfilled Community Outreach is a Christian group in Stone Mountain that serves families and people who live without shelter. Each week it hands out blessing bags with snacks, toiletries, blankets, and a faith message. It also holds community events, such as a children's night in fall 2024.
