54 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Clifton Sanctuary Ministries helps men who are experiencing homelessness. They provide overnight shelter, life skills training, case management, community partnerships, and volunteer support.
10 services
Second Helpings Atlanta is a nonprofit food rescue group in Metro Atlanta. Volunteers pick up healthy surplus food from grocery stores, restaurants, farms, schools, corporate kitchens, and other donors, then deliver it to nonprofit partner agencies that feed people in need.
7 services
Julia Hands of Love is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving the Metro Atlanta community. It helps people and families through food help, hot meals, toiletries, blankets, youth activities, life skills classes, volunteer projects, and donation-based support.
5 services
The Salvation Army Marietta Corps is a faith-based community service center in Marietta. It helps people with food, rent or utility crises, showers and laundry for people without housing, youth programs, seasonal help, and worship activities.
13 services
Trinity United Methodist Church is a downtown Atlanta church at 265 Washington Street SW. Its Trinity Table ministry serves people who need food with a Sunday hot meal and a sack lunch, and it also helps guests with clothing and basic items.
7 services
For The Hope Partnership, listed on its site as FTHP, Inc., serves hot breakfast to people in need in Atlanta every Saturday morning. They serve at an outdoor Edgewood Avenue location in Old Fourth Ward and an indoor location at Crossroads Community Ministries on Courtland Street, and they try to connect guests with other services.
3 services
First United Methodist Church of Marietta is a church in downtown Marietta. It offers worship, children and senior programs, support groups, and service ministries, including a weekly Good Samaritan community time with lunch.
9 services
Clifton Sanctuary Ministries is a faith-based Atlanta shelter for men experiencing homelessness. They provide overnight shelter, transitional apartments, dinner, case management, life skills, employment support, wellness services, veteran services, recovery meetings, and clothing help.
Lake Claire10 services
The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic church in downtown Atlanta. It serves the community through worship, faith formation, and food programs including a Saturday soup kitchen, weekday sandwich and snack ministry, and a community food market.
8 services
The St. Vincent de Paul Society at the Catholic Church of St. Ann is a parish volunteer group that helps people in need with dignity and privacy. They run a food pantry by appointment, deliver weekend food for children at LaBelle Elementary, feed unsheltered people monthly, support a thrift store voucher program, and run a Christmas Adopt-A-Family program.
6 services
The Baby Pantry is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps families with babies and young children. It provides diapers, wipes, baby clothes, formula, baby food, hot meals, maternity clothes, cribs, strollers, car seats, and other baby supplies by appointment.
Peachtree Heights West8 services
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer is a Lutheran church in Midtown Atlanta. Its Lutheran Community Food Ministry serves free weekday lunch to anyone who needs food, especially neighbors facing hunger or unstable housing.
Midtown7 services
St. John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church is an Orthodox Church in America parish in Grant Park. Through Loaves & Fishes / FOCUS Atlanta, it serves weekday breakfast, lunch to go, pantry food, clothing, hygiene items, and partner services for people who need help.
Grant Park5 services
Hosea Helps is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps families and people in need with food, supplies, children’s events, and other human services. They run holiday meal events, back-to-school support, school and community deliveries, volunteer programs, and a women’s job readiness program.
Hammond Park11 services
DEAM is the Decatur-area Emergency Assistance Ministry, a church-supported nonprofit at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Decatur. They help qualifying local residents with emergency groceries, toiletries, utility bills, and prescription costs, and they serve lunches to unhoused people on weekday mornings.
5 services
Fountain of Hope is a faith-based Atlanta-area food bank. It gives food directly to people and families, prepares emergency food boxes, supports partner churches and nonprofits with food distribution, and offers prayer and Bible teaching.
Grove Park6 services
Atlanta Mission is a Christian nonprofit that helps people facing homelessness, poverty, and addiction. Its Gainesville thrift store sells donated clothing, furniture, and household goods, and the money helps fund shelter, meals, recovery, counseling, job training, and other services.
7 services
Lemontree is a nonprofit food help line that works mostly by text message and WhatsApp. In Atlanta, they help people find nearby food pantries, hot meals, and SNAP food stamp help, and they send reminders and food schedules.
6 services
Atlanta Mission helps people experiencing homelessness in Atlanta. My Sister's House serves women and children with overnight shelter, meals, counseling, childcare, medical care, referrals, life skills classes, and job training.
Marietta Street Artery4 services
I Care America, formerly I Care Atlanta Inc., is a nonprofit food relief group in Doraville. It picks up donated food from stores and businesses and gives groceries, cooked food, and resource connections to people who are food insecure or in crisis.
7 services
