31 organizations
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The Women's Independence Scholarship Program, also called WISP, gives education grants to survivors of intimate partner abuse across the United States. It helps pay for college, trade school, certificate programs, and support for current and former scholars.
4 services
A Better Chance is a national education nonprofit, not a local Atlanta office. It helps high-achieving students of color apply to and attend strong independent day and boarding schools, and it supports students with school placement, college readiness, and career preparation.
4 services
Hope Floats Foundation helps children from low-income families get swim lessons. They give tuition assistance through partner swim schools so children can learn water safety and swimming skills.
4 services
Little People of America is a national nonprofit for people with dwarfism or short stature and their families. It offers support, information, local chapters including an Atlanta PEACH chapter, scholarships, grants, adoption help, employment resources, medical referrals, and national events.
8 services
Little Star Foundation is a nonprofit founded by Andrea Jaeger that helps children with cancer, children with life-threatening or life-changing conditions, and families in crisis. It offers financial help, educational scholarships, medical and hospital outreach support, and free sports, arts, and equine therapy programs. I did not verify an Atlanta office; the official contact address is in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, and the foundation says it helps families across the U.S. and globally.
6 services
Expect Miracles Foundation is a cancer nonprofit based in Boston. Its SAMFund grants help young adult cancer survivors ages 21 to 39 after treatment with living costs, family building costs, and other recovery needs. It also raises money for cancer research and runs fundraising events, including a 2026 event in Atlanta.
10 services
The Brooke Healey Foundation helps families dealing with pediatric cancer, especially brain cancer and DIPG. It gives financial help for bills and needed items, supports DIPG research, and awards scholarships to civically active students.
6 services
First Responders Children’s Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps children and families of first responders. It offers emergency grants, bereavement help, scholarships, free counseling in some states, community grants, and holiday toy programs.
10 services
The National Collegiate Cancer Foundation helps young adults whose lives have been affected by cancer. It gives need-based scholarships to college, university, and vocational students who are cancer survivors or who lost a parent or guardian to cancer.
3 services
The National Children’s Cancer Society helps children with cancer, their families, and childhood cancer survivors. They offer travel and emergency financial help, case-manager support, survivor resources, college scholarships, and global medical supply support.
12 services
Military Officers Association of America is a national military membership group based in Alexandria, Virginia. Its charities help service members, veterans, military spouses, caregivers, survivors, and families with crisis grants, education aid, career help, spouse professional development, and community outreach.
10 services
Step Up For Mental Health is a Chicago-based nonprofit that helps people and families understand mental health and find support. It offers peer support, help finding local services, small grants, kids programs, digital skills classes, Google Career Certificate scholarships, and Mental Health First Aid training.
11 services
Seeds of Fortune is a nonprofit online and hybrid program for students, especially young people from under-resourced communities. It helps students prepare for college, find scholarships and grants, learn money skills, build careers, and join leadership and business programs.
6 services
Children's Brain Tumor Foundation helps children, teens, young adults, survivors, parents, caregivers, and siblings affected by brain and spinal cord tumors. They offer support groups, one-on-one social worker support, mentoring, care kits, education help, scholarships, grants, creative programs, and retreats, with many programs online for families across the United States.
14 services
The National GRACE Foundation helps pediatric cancer patients and survivors get ready for college. They give free help with college admissions, financial aid, essays, scholarships, and advocacy with schools.
5 services
Army Emergency Relief is the official nonprofit of the U.S. Army. It helps eligible Soldiers, retired Soldiers, surviving spouses, and Army families with emergency money help, zero-interest loans, grants, scholarships, and some transition support.
12 services
The Max Foundation is a Seattle-based global health nonprofit, not an Atlanta local agency. It helps people with cancer and other critical illnesses in low- and middle-income countries get medicine, diagnostic testing, transportation help, education support, and patient support at no cost through partner doctors and institutions.
9 services
Blood Cancer United is the new name of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. It helps people with blood cancer and their families with free information, financial aid programs, clinical trial help, support groups, and advocacy.
17 services
4Sarah is a faith-based nonprofit that helps women and girls who are in the sex industry or have been affected by sex trafficking. They offer outreach, a hotline and help form, care-team support, help finding resources, and scholarships for education or job skills.
5 services
Children of the Night is a Los Angeles nonprofit that helps children and youth who are being sexually exploited or are at risk. They run a 24/7 hotline, case management, and free online tutoring so young people can get safe, get documents, find services, and work toward a high school diploma.
5 services
