403 organizations
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The American Legion is a national veterans service organization. It helps veterans, service members, and military families with benefits help, disaster grants, suicide prevention training, youth programs, scholarships, and community service.
10 services
Kate's Club helps children, teens, families, and young adults in Georgia after someone important dies. They offer free grief support groups, family programs, camps, outings, online groups, and training for schools and professionals.
13 services
TheHopeLine is a free online nonprofit for students and young adults who are going through a hard time or crisis. They offer 24-hour live chat with trained Hope Coaches, email mentoring, suicide prevention links, articles, podcasts, eBooks, and faith-based support.
4 services
Christian City is a nonprofit on a large campus in Union City. It helps children, youth, families, seniors, and adults with developmental disabilities through housing, foster and adoption support, crisis help, family support, senior living, and community care.
12 services
4 Good Community is a nonprofit based in Henderson, Kentucky, with Kids 4 Good centers in several states, including one listed in Macon, Georgia. It gives free clothing, food, home goods, books, care packages, and school outreach support to children, families, disaster survivors, and other people in need.
8 services
The Center for Children and Young Adults provides safe housing and support for Georgia youth in foster care or homelessness. It helps youth ages 16-20 with housing, school, life skills, job readiness, therapy, meals, and steps toward independent adulthood.
8 services
Know Your Rights Camp is a national group that supports Black and Brown communities through education, youth camps, rights information, and legal resources. It offers an online legal help form, a rights app, and a free autopsy program for some in-custody or suspicious deaths.
6 services
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) helps immigrant and refugee children who came to the United States without a parent or legal guardian. KIND connects children with free legal help, teaches them their rights, and helps with needs like school, medical care, mental health care, and safety.
6 services
Project Real Life Youth Occupational Training Corps is a nonprofit serving youth, families, and adults in metro Atlanta. It offers mentoring, GED help, tutoring, job training, job placement, counseling, case management, and help with food, clothing, and housing-related needs.
9 services
National Runaway Safeline, also called NRS or 1-800-RUNAWAY, is a national 24/7 hotline and online support service for runaway, homeless, and at-risk youth and their families. They listen, help make safety plans, connect youth to local resources, and may help eligible youth ages 12-21 get a free bus ticket home or to another safe place through Home Free.
9 services
CoachArt is a nonprofit that helps children ages 5 to 18 who have a serious or chronic illness, plus their siblings. It offers free arts, athletics, and STEM lessons with trained volunteer mentors, online, at home, or in community spaces.
6 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
NCLR is now called the National Center for LGBTQ Rights. It is a national legal nonprofit that helps LGBTQ people and families through a legal helpline, free legal information, court cases, policy work, and public education.
6 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.
4 services
Love is respect is a national project of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. It helps teens and young adults ages 13 to 26 with dating abuse, unhealthy relationships, safety planning, and support by phone, text, live chat, and online resources.
10 services
Sunrise Association is a nonprofit that offers free day camps and year-round programs for children with cancer and their siblings. In Greater Atlanta, its member camp is Aurora Day Camp, which provides summer camp, virtual camp, hospital play activities, and family activity days at no cost.
8 services
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta runs the Warren Boys & Girls Club for kids and teens ages 6 to 18. The club gives young people a safe place after school and during summer, with tutoring, sports, leadership programs, healthy activities, transportation from some schools, and meals or snacks during some programs.
Grant Park10 services
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta runs the Malon D. Mimms Boys & Girls Club in Canton for kids and teens. The club offers after-school and summer programs, homework help, meals and snacks, sports, STEM, arts, leadership activities, and school pickup from some local schools.
12 services
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta runs youth clubs for kids and teens ages 6 to 18. The CNG club at Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy offers after-school and summer programs, homework help, arts, STEM, leadership, fitness, and meals or snacks during program times.
Cascade Avenue/Road10 services
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta runs youth clubs across the Atlanta area, including the Michael A. Grant Club in Austell. The Grant Club gives kids and teens a safe place after school and in summer, with tutoring, sports, leadership programs, arts, college and career help, meals, and snacks.
9 services
