92 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia is a youth organization for girls in kindergarten through 12th grade. It runs troops, camps, STEM programs, leadership activities, cookie entrepreneurship, tours, and Girl Scout history programs across its council area, including Savannah, Albany, Columbus, Macon, Athens, Augusta, and Gainesville areas.
13 services
Trees Atlanta is a nonprofit that protects and grows Atlanta's urban forest. They plant trees, care for young trees, restore forests, teach adults and youth, run volunteer projects, and train young people for green jobs.
11 services
Atlanta Community ToolBank lends tools and equipment to nonprofits, schools, faith groups, neighborhood groups, and other community organizations. It also offers tool training, urban farming tools, corporate build projects, and event space so groups can do service projects at a lower cost.
7 services
American Liver Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps people affected by liver disease. It gives free liver health information, support groups, peer support, education, advocacy, and research funding, mostly through phone and online services.
11 services
Sandy Springs United Methodist Church is a church community in Sandy Springs. It offers worship, children and youth programs, adult groups, and volunteer service projects with local partners, including food-related volunteer work. I could not verify that it currently runs its own public meal site.
8 services
Operation Paperback is a national nonprofit that sends donated books to U.S. troops overseas, veterans, military families, veterans hospitals, wounded warrior programs, and USO centers. Volunteers sign up online, get approved addresses, and mail books directly to people in the military community. The group says new book requests are briefly paused because of high demand.
4 services
Mad Housers, Inc. is an Atlanta nonprofit that builds small temporary shelters for unhoused people. They use volunteers and donated materials to build survival shelters, share free building plans, and speak up for people living outside.
Cascade Avenue/Road4 services
Helping In His Name Ministries, Inc. is a Christian nonprofit food pantry in Stockbridge. They give free temporary groceries to Henry County residents by appointment only.
3 services
RescueCats, Inc. is a nonprofit, state-licensed, no-kill cat rescue based in Fayetteville, Georgia. They rescue homeless and owner-surrendered kittens and cats, provide foster care and medical care, and place cats in adoptive homes.
7 services
Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary is an animal rescue and sanctuary in Locust Grove. It cares for abused, neglected, and exploited animals and offers public visits, tours, education programs, events for children, and volunteer opportunities.
9 services
The King Center is a nonprofit memorial and education center in Atlanta that carries forward the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. It offers exhibits, archives, youth leadership programs, nonviolence training, volunteer opportunities, and public events about civil rights, justice, peace, and community.
11 services
Georgia Center for Nonprofits, or GCN, helps nonprofit organizations in Georgia do their work better. It offers membership, training, consulting, job-board tools, fundraising support, research, and advocacy for nonprofit leaders and staff.
12 services
Fulton County Animal Services is the county animal shelter in Atlanta, managed by LifeLine Animal Project. It helps with pet adoption, fostering, lost and found pets, animal service calls, low-cost pet care, and programs that help Fulton County residents keep their pets.
12 services
Atlanta Area Council is the local Scouting America council serving metro Atlanta and nearby north Georgia counties. It helps kids and teens join Scouting programs, go camping, learn leadership and outdoor skills, do service projects, and take part in STEM and career activities.
8 services
Habitat for Humanity ReStore Smyrna is a nonprofit store run by NW Metro Atlanta Habitat for Humanity. It sells new and gently used furniture, appliances, building materials, and home goods at lower prices, and the money helps support affordable housing work in Cobb, Douglas, and Paulding counties.
6 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
Joining Hearts, Inc. is an all-volunteer Atlanta nonprofit that raises money and awareness for people impacted by HIV/AIDS. It does not appear to run a direct housing program itself; it gives grants to local AIDS service organizations and runs fundraising events for prevention, care, housing help, meals, and transportation services.
7 services
LifeLine Animal Project is an Atlanta nonprofit animal welfare group that manages Fulton and DeKalb county animal shelters. It helps people adopt or foster pets, get low-cost vet care, and keep their pets through pet food, supplies, behavior help, lost pet help, and other support.
Knight Park/Howell Station11 services
Happy Tails Pet Therapy is a nonprofit volunteer group that brings trained therapy dogs and cats to hospitals, schools, care facilities, behavioral health centers, and similar places across metro Atlanta. They do not provide private home visits, adoption, or one-on-one therapy appointments; they work through facilities and programs.
8 services
Shallowford Presbyterian Church is a church in Atlanta that worships, teaches, and serves the community. Its main direct help program is a food pantry that gives free groceries to neighbors in need, with reservations preferred and IDs needed on the first visit.
5 services
