403 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Alice’s Kids is a nonprofit that helps children whose families cannot afford things like clothes, prom tickets, field trip fees, summer camp, instrument rentals, and other needs. Teachers, social workers, police staff, and other helpers can request aid, and Alice’s Kids sends a check or gift card in a way that protects the child’s dignity.
2 services
New Life Presbyterian Church is a Christian church in Atlanta on Old National Highway. It offers worship, Bible study, youth and adult ministries, senior fellowship, and a free food pantry for the community.
9 services
Groveway Community Group Inc is a nonprofit rooted in the Groveway neighborhood of Roswell, Georgia. It supports local families, seniors, and youth through community resources, scholarships, mentoring, senior events, cultural history work, and neighborhood events.
9 services
Rainbows for All Children helps children, teens, young adults, and caregivers deal with grief and big family changes. They train volunteers and run free peer-support groups for youth dealing with death, divorce or separation, incarceration, deportation, deployment, illness, trauma, or other loss.
9 services
Angel Heart Farm is a nonprofit farm in College Grove, Tennessee, that helps children with chronic or life-threatening illnesses and their families. They offer free equine-assisted therapy, family visits with horses and ponies, camps, and family support while children are in medical treatment.
7 services
AISES is a national nonprofit that supports Indigenous students, educators, and professionals in science, technology, engineering, and math. It helps through scholarships, mentoring, school programs, career resources, science fairs, and national STEM events.
11 services
Charlie's Guys is a charity for children in the United States who have lost a sibling, parent, or grandparent. They send one-time gifts or experiences, help some children connect with other grieving kids, and offer a family grief camp and grief therapy stipend.
7 services
Be Strong is a national nonprofit that helps young people and families find mental health, crisis, basic-needs, and peer support. It runs a free anonymous app, student leader programs, school inclusion programs, learning resources, and national campaigns so people can get help and help others.
9 services
Youth Empowerment Success Services, Inc. is a nonprofit that helps young adults ages 18 to 24 in metro Atlanta, especially youth aging out of foster care or experiencing homelessness. They provide supportive housing, rent help, life coaching, case management, and help with school, work, transportation, documents, and basic needs.
7 services
The American Legion is a national veterans service organization. It helps veterans and military families with benefits information, free service officer help, youth programs, scholarships, suicide prevention training, and some emergency family grants through local posts and state departments.
11 services
Outdoor Afro is a national nonprofit that helps Black people connect with nature through local outdoor trips, education, and leadership. It has an Atlanta network and also funds beginner swim lessons through its Making Waves swim scholarship program.
6 services
Ben Hill United Methodist Church is a church in southwest Atlanta. It offers worship, Sunday school, a Saturday food bank, temporary rent or utility help for some Ben Hill-area residents, youth programs, scholarships, and volunteer outreach.
Kings Forest11 services
The American Legion Department of Georgia is the Georgia state office of The American Legion. It supports veterans, service members, families, youth programs, local posts, training, meetings, and community service across Georgia.
7 services
Children Of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund Inc. helps families of fallen, disabled, and wounded U.S. service members. They provide educational, financial, emotional, morale, and children’s enrichment support, but their website says new college and financial assistance applicants have been temporarily on hold since May 3, 2023 while they continue supporting existing applicants and some case-by-case requests.
7 services
USTA Foundation Incorporated is the charitable arm of the United States Tennis Association. It helps young people from under-resourced communities through tennis, education, mentoring, local youth program grants, court projects, career programs, and college scholarships.
7 services
Locks of Love is a nonprofit in West Palm Beach, Florida, not Atlanta. It helps financially disadvantaged children age 21 and under in the U.S. and Canada who have medical hair loss by providing custom hair prostheses and wigs free of charge.
4 services
Develop & Empower USA is the current name for the organization formerly called D&E A Housing & Economic Empowerment Center. It helps people and families with housing counseling, homebuyer education, foreclosure prevention, credit help, money skills, and community programs.
13 services
D&E is now called Develop and Empower USA and says it was formerly D&E A Housing & Economic Empowerment Center. It helps people and families with homebuyer education, housing counseling, foreclosure prevention, credit help, financial education, workforce training, youth programs, senior programs, and veteran support.
12 services
Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia is the statewide group that supports Georgia's network of Children's Advocacy Centers. It helps local centers respond to child abuse with trained teams, referrals, family support, medical care, therapy, and case coordination.
6 services
3D Girls, Inc. is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps girls, young women, mothers, and families. It runs girls' STEAM, leadership, mentoring, and social-emotional programs, plus mom support circles and emergency resource help for families in metro Atlanta.
6 services
