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.
First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta is a church at 16th and Peachtree in Midtown. Its Community Ministries gives free groceries, showers, clothing, haircuts, a computer lab and help with IDs to neighbors. The church also runs children's and youth programs, a weekday childcare program for babies and toddlers, and Sunday worship.
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.
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.
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.
Family Life Restoration Center is a Mableton nonprofit that has helped families in the Atlanta area since 2006. It runs a client-choice food pantry, serves a hot lunch on Fridays, gives out clothing, and can help with rent, mortgage, or a motel stay when a family is in crisis. During extreme heat or cold it also opens as a cooling or warming center with meals, snacks, and a place to cool off or warm up.
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.
St. John the Wonderworker is an Orthodox church in Grant Park, Atlanta. Its Loaves and Fishes program feeds people who are homeless. Visitors are also welcome to stay for lunch after Sunday worship.
Destination Tomorrow Atlanta is an LGBTQ+ center that opened in May 2022 on Mayson St NE. It runs House of Hope, an emergency housing program for transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary adults 25 and older. You can also ask about housing referrals and trans support groups, and walk in on weekdays.
The Center for Hope is a ministry at Jefferson Avenue Baptist Church in East Point, run together with Luke 1:37 Ministries. It gives out food boxes, clothes, shoes, blankets, coats and hygiene items. Staff also help with job searching, online applications, money counseling, referrals, prayer and spiritual mentoring. You must make an appointment first.
