109 organizations
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The Urban League of Greater Atlanta is a civil rights and economic opportunity nonprofit. It helps people with jobs, training, housing counseling, homeownership, financial coaching, youth programs, reentry support, small business help, and civic engagement.
Downtown16 services
Connecting Communities and Families, Inc. helps people in metro Atlanta build job, life, and computer skills. They focus on young adults aging out of foster care, people coming home from jail or prison, and low-to-moderate-income families.
9 services
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta matches children and teens with caring adult mentors. They support one-to-one mentoring, school-based mentoring, career readiness, and youth development programs across metro Atlanta.
10 services
Future Foundation Inc is an Atlanta nonprofit that supports middle and high school students and families in South Fulton. Its youth programs are paused for the 2025-2026 school year, while the organization works on a plan to bring programming back in Fall 2026.
3 services
Bright Spot Network helps parents and families who are dealing with a parent or guardian's cancer. It offers online support groups, family resource navigation, kids' activities, free books and art boxes, and limited financial grants.
9 services
The Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice is a state agency that serves justice-involved youth up to age 21. Its Office of Victim Services helps victims of juvenile crimes understand their rights, get release or escape notifications, request restitution information, apply for crime victim compensation, and connect with other services.
8 services
Step Up For Mental Health is a Chicago-based nonprofit that helps people and families understand mental health and find support. It offers peer support, help finding local services, small grants, kids programs, digital skills classes, Google Career Certificate scholarships, and Mental Health First Aid training.
11 services
Sunshine Foundation is a national wish-granting charity for children ages 3 to 18 from income-limited families. It helps children who are chronically ill, seriously ill, physically challenged, or have been abused by granting dreams such as theme park trips, family trips, adaptive equipment, sensory rooms, shopping sprees, and other approved wishes.
7 services
Connecting Champions is a nonprofit that helps kids and young adults with cancer, during treatment or after treatment. They ask what the person cares about, then match them with a mentor or friend who shares that interest, using video visits, in-person visits, activity kits, and career exploration.
4 services
Seeds of Fortune is a nonprofit online and hybrid program for students, especially young people from under-resourced communities. It helps students prepare for college, find scholarships and grants, learn money skills, build careers, and join leadership and business programs.
6 services
Experience Camps is a nonprofit that gives free grief support programs to children and teens after the death of a parent, sibling, or primary caregiver. In Georgia, it runs a one-week overnight summer camp at Camp Twin Lakes in Rutledge, with play, peer support, and trained grief staff.
7 services
Children's Brain Tumor Foundation helps children, teens, young adults, survivors, parents, caregivers, and siblings affected by brain and spinal cord tumors. They offer support groups, one-on-one social worker support, mentoring, care kits, education help, scholarships, grants, creative programs, and retreats, with many programs online for families across the United States.
14 services
Revved Up Kids is a nonprofit in Peachtree Corners that teaches children, teens, parents, schools, and youth-serving groups how to prevent sexual abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and unsafe online contact. They offer personal safety, self-defense, internet safety, parent seminars, school programs, and staff training in person, virtually, and by video.
12 services
Maze of Life Resource Center offers counseling, coaching, life skills classes, mandated court classes, and family and youth programs. They serve people in person at Georgia locations and online through telehealth and a client portal.
13 services
Bloom Our Youth, now branded as Bloom, supports Georgia children and families affected by foster care. They recruit and support foster families, provide free clothing and supplies through Bloom Closet, and help older youth who have been in foster care build skills and find resources.
7 services
The National GRACE Foundation helps pediatric cancer patients and survivors get ready for college. They give free help with college admissions, financial aid, essays, scholarships, and advocacy with schools.
5 services
The Children and Family Programs at Kennesaw State University helps KSU student parents, local families, children, teachers, and professionals. It offers parent training, behavioral support, social skills groups for children ages 5 to 12, school support, workshops, and online training tied to child and family mental health.
9 services
Creative Community Services is a Georgia nonprofit that helps children and teens in foster care and adults with developmental disabilities or mental health needs. It provides therapeutic foster care, kinship foster care support, host home support for adults with disabilities, and coaching for pregnant or parenting teens in foster care.
5 services
WIN Georgia Care Management Entity helps children, young adults, and caregivers with complex behavioral health needs. They connect families with care coordination, wraparound planning, and community supports so youth can stay well at home, in school, and in the community.
3 services
National Safe Place Network runs Safe Place, a national safety program for youth in crisis. Young people can go to a Safe Place site or text 4HELP to find nearby help, connect with a local youth agency, and chat with a trained professional.
4 services
