175 organizations
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Bearings Bike Works is a nonprofit youth program and bike shop in southwest Atlanta. They use bikes to help kids and young adults learn bike repair, teamwork, job skills, and confidence. They run free or low-cost after-school, cycling, and career training programs.
Adair Park8 services
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
TechForce Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps students explore and enter technician careers like automotive, diesel, aviation, collision, HVAC, welding, marine, and motorcycle work. It offers a free online network, scholarships and grants, career resources, contests, events, and connections to schools, mentors, apprenticeships, and jobs.
7 services
Georgia State University is a public university in Atlanta with campuses across metro Atlanta. Its Intensive English Program offers free Adult ESL classes to help adults build English, job, school, and community skills.
5 services
Teach For America Metro Atlanta recruits and supports people who teach in under-resourced schools and work for educational opportunity. They place corps members in paid teaching roles, run virtual Ignite tutoring, and connect alumni and community partners around education work in Metro Atlanta.
5 services
Georgia Piedmont Technical College is a public technical college serving DeKalb, Rockdale, and Newton counties. It helps people earn a GED or HiSET, learn English, get job skills, and train for college and careers.
9 services
Emergent Works is a New York City nonprofit, not an Atlanta-based organization. It helps justice-impacted youth and adults build digital skills, creative skills, confidence, and career pathways through free programs and partner-based training.
5 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
Dress for Success Atlanta helps women get ready for work and grow in their careers. They provide career coaching, resume help, interview practice, digital skills support, professional clothing, workshops, and ongoing support after a woman gets a job.
Berkeley Park11 services
Tallatoona Community Action Partnership, Inc. is a community action agency serving northwest Georgia. It helps low-income households with utility bills, weatherization, Head Start and Early Head Start, case management, job help, GED support, budgeting, and referrals.
11 services
Sweetwater Mission is a nonprofit in Austell that helps families with food, homelessness prevention, education, and job readiness. They run a client-choice food pantry, mobile food distributions, family support services, and work and life skills training.
7 services
The Georgia National Guard runs the Georgia Youth ChalleNGe Program for Georgia teens ages 16 to 18 who are having trouble finishing high school. The program is free and residential, using school, mentoring, discipline, leadership, life skills, and job training to help young people earn a GED or high school diploma and plan their next step.
4 services
The Latin American Association is a nonprofit that helps Latino and immigrant families in Georgia. It offers food support by appointment, SNAP and Medicaid enrollment help, immigration legal services, job training, English and computer classes, youth programs, and referrals for families in crisis.
14 services
Career Transitions Center of Chicago is a nonprofit that helps people find meaningful work. They offer career coaching, job search workshops, peer support, resume and interview help, and programs for college-age young adults and recent graduates. Their office is in Chicago, and many services are virtual by Zoom or phone.
10 services
Dismas Charities helps people leaving state and federal incarceration re-enter the community. Its re-entry centers focus on education, job help, and family support so people can build stable lives after prison.
5 services
The Georgia Department of Labor is the state agency that helps people with unemployment benefits, job searches, work permits, and labor market information. Its Cobb-Cherokee Career Center in Marietta serves Cobb and Cherokee counties and connects people to online, phone, and in-person help.
10 services
The Georgia Department of Labor is a state agency that helps people look for work and apply for unemployment benefits. It also runs career centers, shares job and wage information, helps employers recruit workers, and handles child labor and youth work permit information.
12 services
Chattahoochee Technical College is a public technical college with its main Marietta campus at 980 South Cobb Drive and other campuses in northwest Georgia. It helps people earn college credentials, train for jobs, prepare for the GED or HiSET, learn English, get career help, and access student supports like scholarships and a food pantry.
13 services
AMVETS is a national veterans organization with headquarters in Pennsylvania and a national capital office in Maryland. It helps veterans and their families with VA claims, job help, scholarships, advocacy, local posts, and some housing and reintegration programs in specific cities.
11 services
Military Spouse Jobs is a nonprofit that helps military spouses and other military-connected job seekers find work. They offer free career help, resume support, LinkedIn help, job boards, recruiter connections, and online training.
10 services
