Care & Conserve is the City of Atlanta water department's program for people who have trouble paying their water bills. It can help eligible City of Atlanta water customers with past-due water and sewer bills. Eligible homeowners can also get free plumbing repairs through a partner group, Nehemiah Project CDC.
The Urban League of Greater Atlanta has worked in metro Atlanta since 1920. Its Financial Empowerment & Economic Resilience Center is a one-stop place for emergency help with rent and bills, jobs, housing, small business help and money coaching. It also runs programs for young people and a water bill help program for DeKalb County.
Cascade United Methodist Church is a church with two Atlanta locations, one in Southwest Atlanta and one in Midtown. Its Community Fund can pay up to $1,000 toward past-due rent or mortgage and up to $350 toward a past-due utility bill for people in Fulton or DeKalb County. It is not emergency help. The church also holds worship services, takes prayer requests, and offers a GriefShare group for adults who have lost a loved one.
Georgia Power is the electric company for much of Georgia. Besides billing and outage service, it runs help for households with lower incomes: a monthly bill discount and free home energy upgrades. Some of these are for seniors, renters, or people in manufactured homes.
Emmaus House is a nonprofit in the Peoplestown neighborhood of Atlanta. Its Lokey Help Center at 27 Haygood Ave SW gives out groceries and helps with rent and utility bills, Georgia ID vouchers, SNAP and Social Security applications, and more. It also runs summer reading, youth and family, job training, and case management programs.
BCM Georgia helps working families with school-age children stay in their homes. It offers emergency help with rent and utilities during a crisis. It also offers a 6-month online money class, and a 12-month housing support program called Foundation 3.
Hosea Helps is an Atlanta nonprofit that has served the community since 1971. At its Forrest Hills Drive headquarters, families can get free emergency groceries and help applying for food stamps. Staff also check whether a household can get help with rent, utilities and other costs. It also runs job help, programs for children, holiday meal events and deliveries to apartment communities and schools.
Fulton Atlanta Community Action Authority is a nonprofit that helps low-income people in Fulton County and the City of Atlanta. It helps with energy bills through LIHEAP and with emergency money help through an online application. It also offers empowerment classes.
Nicholas House helps families with children who have no home or are about to lose one. It runs the Boulevard Shelter in Atlanta and apartment programs that help pay rent while parents build income. It also offers rent and utility help to keep families from being evicted.
The Housing Help Center is the City of Atlanta's official housing resource center, and city employees called navigators work there. They help you find rental housing, homeownership help, and groups that can help with eviction, legal aid, utilities, home repairs and 311 code complaints. You ask for an appointment by filling out the intake form on the website.
Zion Hill CDC is a nonprofit in East Point that works to end homelessness and poverty, with a focus on South Fulton. It helps with rent, mortgage and utility bills, motel stays and rapid rehousing, free health insurance for those who qualify, and cash payments through FLOW + IDA. It also has a 2-1-1 center where you can look up other services.
Zion Hill CDC is an East Point nonprofit that works to end homelessness and poverty, with a focus on South Fulton. It helps South Fulton residents with rent, mortgage and utility bills, and offers motel stays and rapid rehousing to people who are homeless. It also helps people who qualify get free Kaiser health insurance, and has a 2-1-1 center where you can search for other services.
DEAM is a ministry supported by 18 Decatur-area churches. It gives emergency food and basic toiletries, helps pay for filled prescriptions, and helps with past-due water, gas and electric bills. Help is for people living in its 10 ZIP code area, and everything is set up by phone.
Partnership for Community Action is a nonprofit that helps low-income families in DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale and Newton counties. It can help with emergency needs like rent, mortgage, utilities and emergency lodging, and with home heating and cooling bills when those programs are open. It also has a diaper program for families.
Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services is a state agency that works to keep children safe. Staff look into reports of child abuse and neglect and work with the family. The agency also helps with foster care and with food, cash, health coverage, and child care benefits.
Clayton County Community Services Authority is a nonprofit community action agency in Forest Park. It has served Clayton, Henry and Fayette counties since 1966. It runs a food pantry, help with home energy bills, Head Start and Early Head Start centers, a weatherization office, and case management for families in a crisis. Some help, like rent and non-LIHEAP utility help, is closed right now.
This is a nonprofit in Forest Park that started in 2015 to help Vietnamese older adults who do not speak English well. Today it serves people of many backgrounds and ages. Staff help people apply for things like Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and help with energy and water bills, and the group also runs a food pantry and translates papers into Vietnamese.
HopeWorks is a Christ-centered nonprofit that has helped widows and seniors with low incomes since 1984. It does critical and small home repairs, and it fixes or replaces gas furnaces and gas water heaters so people can stay safely in their homes. It also holds a monthly Senior Fellowship gathering.
Poverty 2 Prosperity is a nonprofit that has served community members and veterans since 2020. Its programs include job training and life skills for young people, utility bill help, food donations, and help with credit and buying a first home. To ask for help, call or email them.
The Suthers Center is a volunteer food pantry and emergency help program at St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church in Brookhaven. On Saturday mornings you can drive through for free groceries, and you can ask in person for help with a utility bill or for a shelter referral if you have no home.
