56 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
NETWorks Cooperative Ministry is a group of churches in the Tucker, Northlake, and Embry Hills area that helps neighbors going through a crisis. They run a food pantry that gives out groceries, and they also help pay rent and utility bills so families can avoid eviction. NOTE: this is NOT the same as the food pantry at 6315 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs (that address belongs to Solidarity Sandy Springs); NETWorks is in Tucker.
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J. Grier Community Development Center is a faith-based nonprofit in Tucker, GA, founded by Dr. Janice Grier and connected to Greater New and Living Way International Deliverance Ministries. It helps low-income and homeless families with food and clothing, rent and utility assistance, and counseling. It also runs leadership and mentor training and a workforce program that offers resume and job-search help.
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Hosea Helps (formerly Hosea Feed the Hungry) is a long-running Atlanta nonprofit that fights hunger and homelessness. They hand out emergency food and water, help people apply for food stamps, and screen families to see if they qualify for rent and utility help. They also run big holiday meal events and programs for children, women, and people facing homelessness.
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Emmaus House is a faith-rooted community organization in Atlanta's Peoplestown neighborhood that works to help families move out of poverty. They run a food pantry, give emergency help with rent and utilities, offer case management, and provide education programs for children, youth, and adults.
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Community Assistance Center (CAC) is the largest human services nonprofit in Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, helping neighbors avoid hunger and homelessness since 1987. They run a food pantry and thrift shop, and provide rent and utility help, free job training, English and adult-education classes, free tax help, and youth programs. In 2024 they served nearly 10,000 people and gave out about one million pounds of food.
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DEAM (Decatur-area Emergency Assistance Ministry) is a faith-based nonprofit run by 18 area churches that helps neighbors facing an emergency. By appointment, they give out emergency food and toiletries, help pay overdue water, gas, and electric bills, and help cover prescription costs. They also serve free weekday lunches to people who are unhoused.
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Clayton County Community Services Authority is a nonprofit community action agency that has fought poverty in the south metro Atlanta area since 1966. They help low-income families and seniors pay their power, gas, rent, and food bills, weatherize homes, and offer free early childhood education through Head Start. They serve Clayton, Henry, and Fayette counties.
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Partnership for Community Action is a nonprofit Community Action Agency in Decatur that helps low-income families in DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton, and Walton counties become more stable. They are best known for paying part of your home heating or cooling bill (LIHEAP), and they also offer emergency help, case management, free diapers, and job support. (Note: the name 'MUST Ministries' on file is incorrect for this phone/address.)
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The Salvation Army Atlanta International Corps is a faith-based church and service center in Doraville that helps immigrant and international families, with staff who speak Korean and Spanish. They run a food pantry on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and offer help with rent, utilities, clothing, school supplies, and holiday assistance. You call (404) 486-2820 to set up an appointment for financial help.
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Fulton County's Department of Community Development helps low- and moderate-income residents pay for housing. Through its Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) program, run with the Housing Authority of Fulton County, it can cover monthly rent, security deposits, and utility deposits or bills. It also runs home repair, homeownership, and homeless-prevention programs using federal HUD funds.
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The website, phone, and address on this record belong to Hosea Helps (founded 1971), not Communities in Schools — this listing appears mislabeled. Hosea Helps runs a Care Center in southwest Atlanta that gives out free emergency groceries, clothing, toiletries, and baby items, and helps people apply for SNAP, Medicaid, and Medicare. Staff also screen families for help with rent, utilities, transportation, deposits, and emergency shelter.
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Georgia Mortgage Assistance was the state's Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) program, run by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. It helped homeowners hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic catch up on past-due mortgage payments, property taxes, insurance, and utility bills to avoid foreclosure. The program stopped taking new applications in spring 2026, so new applicants can no longer apply.
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Zion Hill CDC is a faith-based nonprofit in East Point that helps families in South Fulton and metro Atlanta avoid homelessness and poverty. They offer help paying rent, mortgage, and utility bills, food gift cards, emergency motel stays and rapid rehousing, direct cash payments, and free health insurance enrollment.
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The Housing Help Center is the City of Atlanta's official one-stop housing resource office. Staff (called navigators) help Atlanta residents find and keep safe, affordable housing by connecting them to rental and utility assistance, eviction prevention, legal aid, code enforcement help, emergency relocation, and homeownership programs. You can fill out an intake form online, call, or visit their downtown office near Five Points MARTA.
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HOPE Atlanta (the programs of Travelers Aid of Metropolitan Atlanta) is one of the oldest homeless-services agencies in metro Atlanta. They help people who are homeless or about to lose their housing with street outreach, case management, rent and utility help, and housing placement. They run special programs for veterans and their families and for people living with HIV/AIDS. (Note: this record is filed under the name 'Atlanta Recovery Center,' but the website, phone, and address all belong to HOPE Atlanta — a different organization.)
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Southern Crescent Veteran Services is a veteran-run nonprofit in Stockbridge, GA that helps veterans and their families facing financial or emotional hardship. They offer temporary help with rent, mortgage, and utilities, plus job assistance, housing support, and benefits/claims help, and they run a program for homeless veterans. They mainly serve the Southern Crescent area south of Atlanta.
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