403 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Strive for College now operates as UStrive, an online mentoring program for students. It connects students with qualified mentors who help with college applications, college planning, and financial aid.
1 service
Hagerty Drivers Foundation is a nonprofit that supports car culture, driver education, and automotive history. It gives grants for teen driver education, supports automotive training programs and scholarships, and runs projects that preserve important historic vehicles.
5 services
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is an active Baptist church in southeast Atlanta. It offers worship, Bible study, and church ministries, including a food pantry, community outreach, youth and young adult ministry, prison ministry, and scholarship support. Call the church office to ask when the food pantry or other help is available.
South Atlanta9 services
World Harvest Church is a Christian church in Roswell. It offers worship services and community help, including a food pantry, bread ministry, children and student programs, counseling, transportation to Sunday service, and outreach to people in prisons, nursing homes, and downtown Atlanta.
8 services
Community Church of God, now branded as Community Church, is a church in southwest Atlanta. It helps neighbors through a weekly food pantry, a resilience hub for emergencies, worship services, children’s programs, prayer, and community events.
Cascade Avenue/Road9 services
The Episcopal Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is an Episcopal church in Marietta. It serves the community through a monthly mobile food pantry, pastoral care, grief support, recovery meeting space, youth and children’s programs, and partner ministries that help with meals and family homelessness.
8 services
Magic Wheelchair is a nonprofit that builds custom wheelchair costumes for children and families at no cost. Volunteers work with families to turn a wheelchair into a costume that helps the child feel included and celebrated.
3 services
Smile for a Lifetime Foundation is a national nonprofit based in Colorado Springs that helps children get orthodontic care. It matches eligible children from low-income families or foster care with volunteer orthodontists who donate treatment.
2 services
Central United Methodist Church is a church in downtown Atlanta near MLK Jr. Drive and Northside Drive. It offers worship, Sunday School, youth and children’s ministries, a food pantry, and on-site health screenings with a partner group.
Penelope Neighbors6 services
Atlanta Belvedere SDA Church is a Seventh-day Adventist church in Decatur. It offers worship, Bible study, prayer meetings, youth and children’s ministries, and community help including a food pantry and resource fairs.
8 services
A Million Thanks is a national nonprofit that supports active-duty service members and veterans with handwritten letters of thanks and encouragement. Its current work is focused on collecting letters, sending letter bundles, running MailCall250, and helping schools start student letter-writing clubs.
6 services
Our Giving Garden is a nonprofit farm and education center in Mableton. It grows and donates fresh produce and eggs, runs a free food pantry, and offers outdoor learning programs for children and families.
6 services
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church is a Catholic parish in Brookhaven. It offers Mass, sacraments, faith formation, youth programs, Spanish and Indonesian community worship, and outreach ministries. Its St. Vincent de Paul conference helps neighbors in the parish boundaries with short-term rent, food, utility, and medicine needs.
12 services
Simon Youth Foundation helps young people finish high school and get money for college or other education after high school. It runs Simon Youth Academies with public school districts, including two listed in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and offers scholarship programs for eligible students.
6 services
Palmetto Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Palmetto, Georgia. It offers worship services, Bible study, small groups, weekday preschool, student ministry, senior adult ministry, and other church activities. I could not verify a current food pantry on the sources checked.
12 services
Vision To Learn is a nonprofit that brings mobile eye clinics to schools and community sites. In Georgia, it gives free vision screenings, eye exams, and glasses to children in low-income communities, including students in Atlanta-area counties.
4 services
Kidz2Leaders is a Christian nonprofit that supports children who have an incarcerated parent. It starts with Camp Hope and continues with free year-round family support, leadership programs, internships, and alumni help through young adulthood.
4 services
Providence Missionary Baptist Church is a church in southwest Atlanta. It offers worship, Bible study, youth and senior ministries, and outreach like weekly food bags, free donated clothing, Sunday breakfast, health events, and a community garden.
Cascade Avenue/Road11 services
EZ as PI Tutoring Service helps students with school subjects, STEM learning, and test prep. They offer private tutoring and programs with trained tutors, including help with math, English, reading, SAT, ACT, and GACE.
2 services
The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic church in downtown Atlanta. It serves the community through worship, faith formation, and food programs including a Saturday soup kitchen, weekday sandwich and snack ministry, and a community food market.
8 services
