155 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
A Home For Everyone In DeKalb helps people in DeKalb County who are homeless or at risk of losing stable housing. They help with limited move-in start-up costs, run small transitional homes, give severe-weather supplies and MARTA cards, and work with partners on affordable housing.
7 services
Family Heritage Foundation is a Christian nonprofit in Clarkston that helps refugee and immigrant families and at-risk children. It offers after-school tutoring, youth and summer programs, English and citizenship classes, food and diapers, computer classes, and some housing-related help.
8 services
Fulton County runs Homeless Assessment Centers for people and families experiencing homelessness in Fulton County outside the City of Atlanta. The centers do housing assessments, help with emergency shelter placement, and connect people to diversion, homeless prevention, long-term housing, and support services.
3 services
Youth Empowerment Success Services, Inc. is a nonprofit that helps young adults ages 18 to 24 in metro Atlanta, especially youth aging out of foster care or experiencing homelessness. They provide supportive housing, rent help, life coaching, case management, and help with school, work, transportation, documents, and basic needs.
7 services
Ben Hill United Methodist Church is a church in southwest Atlanta. It offers worship, Sunday school, a Saturday food bank, temporary rent or utility help for some Ben Hill-area residents, youth programs, scholarships, and volunteer outreach.
Kings Forest11 services
Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation is a nonprofit that helps current Georgia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen, and full-time Georgia Department of Defense civilian employees, during emergencies. They may help with short-term money needs like rent or foreclosure prevention, utility shutoff prevention, vehicle repossession prevention, illness, injury, job loss, disaster damage, funeral costs, or temporary military pay problems.
4 services
NETWorks Cooperative Ministry is a church-based nonprofit serving neighbors in the Northlake, Embry Hills, and Tucker area. They help with free groceries, limited rent and utility help, referrals, and some everyday needs like school supplies for eligible families.
4 services
Join the Flock, Inc. is a volunteer-run nonprofit that helps families affected by cancer. They provide financial relief by covering monthly housing payments, mainly mortgage or housing bills, after a nomination and review process.
3 services
Zion Keepers, Inc. is a nonprofit ministry in Marietta that helps veterans, especially homeless and disabled veterans, find housing and support. They also say they help people with HIV/AIDS, mental illness, substance use issues, and other hard life situations through shelter, food, showers, rent or utility help, and referrals.
9 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
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
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
The Salvation Army Marietta Corps is a faith-based community center in Marietta. It helps people with food, utility and rent or mortgage assistance, homeless basic needs, youth programs, seasonal help, and worship services.
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 Department of Community Affairs runs the Housing Choice Voucher program for most Georgia counties. It helps very low-income people and families rent safe homes by paying part of the rent directly to landlords, but its regular tenant-based wait list is currently closed.
9 services
The Salvation Army Metro Atlanta Area Command is a faith-based nonprofit serving people across metro Atlanta. It helps with food, shelter, rent and utility crises, disaster relief, youth programs, holiday gifts, and support for women leaving sex trafficking.
Pittsburgh13 services
Marietta Housing Authority is a public housing agency in Marietta that helps low-income households get and keep affordable housing. It runs Housing Choice Vouchers, HUD-VASH vouchers for eligible homeless veterans referred by VA, a Family Self-Sufficiency program for voucher participants, and some affordable apartment communities. Its Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed.
9 services
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church is a parish group that helps people and families going through hardship. Members meet with people to decide what help is possible, including help with food, clothing, shelter costs, and transportation costs.
Old Fourth Ward3 services
