Atlanta’s largest provider of pro bono legal services, AVLF stands with low-income tenants and survivors of intimate partner violence as they fight for justice. We harness the collective power of our professional community to provide free legal and social services, ultimately creating safer, more stable families, homes and communities, and a more fair and equitable Atlanta. The goals of our program are to prevent families from being displaced or becoming homeless and to prevent eviction and/or reduce the negative impact of eviction.
The Barack & Michelle Obama (BaMO) Academy is a Title 1 traditional elementary school located in the Peoplestown neighborhood. Currently serving approximately 301 students, the school has an 80% direct certification rate (apsinsights.org). The Barack & Michelle Obama (BaMO) Academy PTA has been supporting a uniform closet at BaMO Academy for the past 3 years. In addition to advocacy and family engagement, one of the key purposes of the PTA is to promote the welfare of children (georgiapta.org).
Greening Youth Foundation’s Urban Youth Corps will provide job training and employment for low-income, young adults from the Stadium Neighborhood communities. The program goals are to provide a foundation for both a lifelong interest in environmental protection and future employment in a natural resource field. The Urban Youth Corp is a yearlong, paid, training and work experience program.
HABESHA Gardens is located in Rosa Burney Park. HABESHA will provide afterschool enrichment activities offered to youth at the Dunbar neighborhood center, outdoor festivals promoting health and wellness and adult training opportunities in sustainable agriculture.
The Midtown Assistance Center (MAC) was formed in 1986 as a collaborative effort to pool the resources of Midtown Atlanta religious congregations and the Midtown Alliance to assist the working poor in Atlanta. MAC’s mission is to provide emergency assistance to low-income working Atlantans to help prevent homelessness and hunger during periods of crisis. MAC will help prevent evictions and utility disconnections in the Stadium Neighborhoods.
Mimi's Yoga Kids goal is to teach kids 4 key aspects to create their own yoga practice. They include mindfulness, inner peace, meditation and imagination. Kids learn breathing, yoga poses and how to calm their bodies through meditation. The Yoga Project is a community development project to offer the wonderful benefits of yoga to kids and their families.
Nicholas House helps homeless families reach self-sufficiency. The program provides a range of housing support stability services for families with minor children that may include rental/utility arrears assistance, move-in assistance, short-term rental subsidy, emergency shelter services, job placement assistance, food and transportation assistance and other referral services that may be needed.
PCX GO! is the non-profit arm of Pharaoh’s Conclave (PCX) and is pioneering eSports education by exposing, engaging, and preparing K-12 youth to eSports career pathways. In addition to educating youth, PCX GO! educates parents/guardians and larger society about what eSports is and how youth can get engaged.
We educate youth by exposing them to the career pathways in eSports; preparing them to successfully navigate those pathways that most align with their interests; connect youth to collegiate, internship, and career experiences and opportunities; and provide youth with access to scholarships to further their preparation for the eSports workforce.
The Pittsburgh Collaborative's Renaissance Project employs strategic partnerships with Morehouse School of Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program to convene health related programming and screenings for Pittsburgh residents and senior groups who frequent Pittman Park Recreation Center. Along with the Blackberry Arts Collective, we offer intergenerational, on-site arts and artisan education and programming through interactive activities based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. We also offer music education and enrichment to youth who are interested in learning to play instruments with the goal of creating a Pittman Park youth band in partnership with the Kilgore Music Foundation.
Summerhill Community Ministries Inc, (SCM)’s Job Training and Leadership Program is designed to give young people an opportunity to spend quality time in an environment that requires teamwork and individual responsibility.
SCM aims to develop youth so they become leaders and role models in their communities. The program offers leadership training, character building skills, and help youth develop positive lifelong skill that equip them for the future.
The Urban Advocate is a grassroots organization formed out of a gap between community researchers at a local research institution and residents from various West Atlanta communities.
STAND: Our Community, Our Voice” is a project that aims to provide a safe space for Mechanicsville residents to share their stories related to gun violence and trauma.
Urban Oak Initiative (UOI) is a non-profit organization who first received it's 501(c)(3)
designation in 1997 in the State of Missouri. For more than 20 years the organization has
provided services for the community including after-school programs, teen pregnancy prevention, nutrition education and vocational job training for youth. The organization began work in the Atlanta Metro Area in 201 and has since provided programming at no cost to churches and after school programs aimed at reducing obesity, diabetes and chronic illnesses in youth.
Community Care develops strategies and programs that offer alternatives for young people whom otherwise might become part of the statistics of their neighborhood.
Emmaus House seeks transformation in the lives of individuals, within communities, and in the systems that shape our lives. To achieve this change, we believe that as an organization we must focus on both relationship and results.
HouseProud Atlanta will utilize Trust funding to provide critical, no-cost repairs to low-income senior, disabled and veteran homeowners living in the Stadium communities. We will utilize a portion of the funding to assist homeowners who find themselves with code enforcement violations, by walking them through the process and providing repairs to remediate the violations.
HouseProud Atlanta helps low-income senior, veteran, and disabled Atlanta homeowners make crucial home repairs so they can age in place in their communities.
WC-GA provides evidence-based programming and services to adolescents, adults, and their families in the State of Georgia and the tri-jurisdictional, greater Metro- Atlanta area .
Community Care develops strategies and programs that offer alternatives for young
people whom otherwise might become part of the statistics of their neighborhood.
Emmaus House seeks transformation in the lives of individuals, within communities, and in the systems that shape our lives. To achieve this change, we believe that as an organization we must focus on both relationship and results.
ECO-Action helps youth and adult residents understand the environmental issues in their neighborhoods and enable them to take meaningful action in response.
Housing Justice League (HIL) is a grassroots, community-led organization that works with homeowners and renters in Atlanta to preserve and create new affordable housing and launch democratic participatory campaigns for housing justice.
The mission of Peoplestown Revitalization Corporation is to improve the quality of life for residents of the community. They are serving as the fiscal agent for 555 Community Information Champions. The goal of 555 is to serve underserved seniors who live and create an Atlanta Neighborhood organization that serves all of NPU-V (Neighborhood Planning Unit). 555 CIC has been in action for more than 5 years now. We seek to learn information that will lift our seniors and allow them to age in their community with connected resources.
The Center for Black Women's Wellness has been located in the Dunbar Neighborhood Center for over 30 years and has programming in three focus areas: women's health, maternal and infant health, and economic health/self-sufficiency. CBWW has a solid track record of working with the community to plan and implement impactful programs that serve over 3,000 individuals annually.
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