147 organizations
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The Navy Wives Clubs of America Scholarship Foundation gives college and training scholarships to eligible children of enlisted Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard members. The grants do not have to be paid back and can help with tuition, room and board, fees, and books.
3 services
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is a national group based in Washington, D.C. It helps families, children, teens, young adults, and professionals with hearing loss through parent support, scholarships, youth leadership programs, mentoring, resource guides, chapters, and events about listening and spoken language.
9 services
No Greater Sacrifice is a nonprofit that helps children of fallen or severely wounded U.S. service members. It provides college and trade-school scholarships, mentoring, coaching, and events so scholars can pursue higher education with less debt.
5 services
The Pinetop Perkins Foundation is a nonprofit based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It teaches blues music through workshops and gives emergency help to older professional blues musicians through the Pinetop Assistance League.
5 services
Army Scholarship Foundation is a Texas-based nonprofit that gives undergraduate scholarships to children of current or former U.S. Army members and spouses of serving enlisted Army members. It helps pay for college or vocational school, and scholarship money is sent to the student's school for approved education costs.
2 services
Rescuing Hope is a Marietta-based nonprofit that fights sex trafficking through survivor support, public awareness, and training. They help sex trafficking survivors make action plans, connect to housing and jobs, build life skills, get clothing and goods, and apply for education or small-business support.
11 services
100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc. helps African-American youth in Atlanta through mentoring, education, scholarships, STEM activities, career preparation, and violence prevention work. Its programs serve students from Atlanta Public Schools and college students preparing for careers.
5 services
That Others May Live Foundation supports U.S. Air Force rescue personnel and their families. They help with scholarships, emergency tragedy funds, hardship support, and programs for rescue warriors and families.
6 services
Foster Love is a national nonprofit that helps children and young adults who are in foster care or who have aged out. It gives care items, birthday and learning kits, scholarships, emergency help, housing support, mentoring, and other support through partners and online programs.
12 services
UCB, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company with its U.S. headquarters in the Atlanta area. It helps people who use certain UCB medicines by offering co-pay help, a patient assistance program, insurance information, and disease-related education or scholarship programs.
5 services
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a national education foundation based in Lansdowne, Virginia. It helps high-achieving students with financial need pay for school and get advising, college planning, career support, and enrichment opportunities. It is not an emergency cash program.
5 services
The Housing Authority of the City of Decatur, Georgia provides affordable housing and rental help for people in Decatur and parts of DeKalb County. It runs Housing Choice Voucher, project-based rental assistance, workforce housing, resident services, youth programs, senior programs, and scholarship support for residents.
13 services
Hope For The Warriors is a national nonprofit for post-9/11 service members, veterans, military families, caregivers, and families of the fallen. They help with financial needs, mental health support, career coaching, peer support, scholarships, wishes, and community events.
14 services
Concerns of Police Survivors, Inc. is a national nonprofit for families and co-workers of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. It helps survivors with peer support, counseling cost help for children, scholarships, camps, survivor weekends, and law enforcement trauma training.
8 services
Victoria's Victory Foundation helps people in the United States who have mobility disabilities from an injury or diagnosis. They provide scholarship grants for things like mobility equipment, caregiver hours, activity-based training, and home or vehicle changes, and they also help people find disability resources.
3 services
Tunnel to Towers Foundation is a national nonprofit based in Staten Island, New York, with housing work in Atlanta and other cities. It helps injured veterans and first responders, Gold Star families, families of fallen first responders, and veterans experiencing homelessness through mortgage-free homes, accessible smart homes, supportive housing, scholarships, and 9/11 education.
9 services
Folds of Honor gives education scholarships to spouses and children of fallen or disabled U.S. service members and first responders. Its Georgia chapter is in Peachtree Corners, and applications are handled through the Folds of Honor online scholarship portal during the yearly application window.
4 services
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.
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