Abba House is a 15-month residential ministry for women with emotional wounds caused by life-controlling issues, such as drug addiction and depression. It is a place for women to receive God's love, forgiveness, and peace. The women at Abba House bring their children with them to receive rehabilitation for the entire family. To learn more, visit abbahouse.com.
Causes: Poverty; Hunger

3 Dimensional (3D) Life is an adventure-based recovery model designed to help those who are bound in destructive behaviors to discover God's path to a healthy body, soul, and spirit. They offer a voluntary residential program for young men and women ages 14-20 that serves the entire family through a child's recovery from addictions and destructive behaviors. Three Dimensional Life combines long-term, Christ-centered treatment with outdoor adventure. To learn more, visit threedimensionallife.com.
Causes: Poverty; Hunger

The Place is a nonprofit social service organization that has served Forsyth County families in difficult times since 1975 with basic emergency needs. Their programs include: providing food, direct emergency assistance, and activities for children, as well as operating a thrift store. To learn more, visit theplaceofforsyth.com.
Cause: Hunger

Chestatee Elementary School is located in Gainesville, just off Keith Bridge Road. School counselors work daily with children who have needs ranging from food to clothing to school supplies. To learn more, visit http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/chestatee.
Cause: Children-At-Risk

Coal Mountain Elementary School is located near Browns Bridge Community Church. This summer, Browns Bridge partnered with them to provide a garden for the children in their special needs program. This Christmas, Browns Bridge hopes to provide for the basic needs of Coal Mountain students. To learn more, visit http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/coalmountain.
Cause: Children-At-Risk

Cumming Elementary School is a Title 1 School of Excellence located in Central Forsyth County near downtown Cumming. With one of the county's largest free and reduced lunch programs, the school is constantly striving to meet all of the various needs for its children. To learn more, visit http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/cumming.
Cause: Children-At-Risk

Atlanta Mission is a Christian ministry dedicated to providing rescue, holistic recovery, and reentry services to thousands of homeless and at-risk men, women, and children in and around Metro Atlanta each year. For more than 70 years, the Mission has saved lives by moving homeless individuals and families from the streets to independent housing, breaking the bonds of addiction and providing hope for the hopeless. To learn more, visit atlantamission.org.
Causes: Poverty; Children-At-Risk

Buckhead Christian Ministry (BCM) is a community of neighbors bringing hope and financial stability to families and individuals in crisis, placing special emphasis on the needs of Atlanta's low-income workers. BCM prevents hunger and homelessness by providing short and long-term solutions that range from food and clothing to housing assistance and life-skills education. To learn more, visit buckheadchristianministry.org.
Causes: Poverty; Hunger

Charis Community Housing is a Christian community development ministry that restores the physical vibrancy of urban communities on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis by creating wholesome, viable, sustainable, mixed-income communities. This is done in a variety of ways, including building affordable homes for low-income community residents, facilitating the development of market-rate homes, providing transitional housing, recruiting strategic neighbors, and building intentional partnerships with organizations in the community. To learn more, visit chariscommunity.org.
Causes: Poverty

The Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta was founded in 1988 in response to the lack of furniture for families moving out of homeless shelters. Today, the Furniture Bank provides essential household furnishings to individuals and families moving out of homelessness, battling HIV/AIDS, and fleeing domestic violence. To learn more, visit furniturebankatlanta.org.
Cause: Poverty

The Good Samaritan Health Center of Atlanta is a Christ-centered ministry that offers a comprehensive range of services to adults and children who are without health insurance or the means to afford care. The Center's vision is to create a dependable, full-time, comprehensive healthcare home for Atlanta's working poor and homeless. To learn more, visit goodsamatlanta.org.
Cause: Sickness

Open Hand offers home-delivered meals and nutrition education to people with critical, chronic, or terminal diseases, as well as homebound seniors. They also provide nonperishable groceries to low-income, medically eligible clients who have the ability to prepare their own meals. Through their work, Open Hand aims to eliminate disability due to nutrition-sensitive, chronic disease. To learn more, visit projectopenhand.org.
Cause: Poverty

SafeHouse Outreach is an urban outreach committed to affecting real change in the lives of those in the margins of society. They provide practical, emotional, and physical assistance and help integrate individuals back into society to lead healthy, functional lives. SafeHouse originally worked to rescue child prostitutes and runaways in Atlanta. They have expanded into a full-service community development organization with feeding programs for the homeless, job placement, a health clinic, youth mentoring, and aid to pregnant teens. To learn more, visit safehouseoutreach.org.
Cause: Poverty

Carter G. Woodson Elementary School is an urban school located in the Grove Park community of West Atlanta, two miles from downtown. It's part of the Atlanta Public School system. Woodson equips students to graduate from college and prepares them to become contributing citizens, international scholars, and catalysts of societal change. Of the students enrolled at Woodson, 98 percent are eligible for free or reduced lunches, which is an indication of low income. To learn more, visit atlanta.k12.ga.us/Domain/2548.
Causes: Poverty; Children-At-Risk

Good Samaritan Health Center of Gwinnett is committed to caring for the uninsured, working poor in our community. It is their aim to not only meet physical needs but to also address the spiritual needs of patients through prayer and biblical counseling. To learn more, visit goodsamgwinnett.org.
Causes: Sickness

My House provides transitional housing and a home-like living environment for babies who are ready to leave the hospital, but have no place to go. They ensure that the medical and developmental needs of these homeless babies are met. To learn more, visit myhouseforkids.org.
Causes: Children-At-Risk

The mission of North Gwinnett Cooperative Ministries is to extend a hand to residents in need in Buford, Suwanee, and Sugar Hill. They provide food, clothing, financial assistance, and spiritual support, and collaborate with other organizations and programs within the community to identify and assist in meeting needs. To learn more, visit northgwinnettcoop.org.
Causes: Poverty; Hunger

Wellspring Living is a nonprofit organization that exists to help survivors of childhood sexual abuse overcome their broken pasts and move toward hopeful futures. Their mission is to confront the issue of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation through advocacy, education, and treatment programs for girls and women. To learn more, visit wellspringliving.org.
Causes: Poverty; Children-At-Risk

Atlanta Mission's thrift ministry is a major funding source for programs transforming lives of men, women, and children facing homelessness. Their stores are also ministry centers serving their communities. Customers, donors, volunteers, program clients, and staff experience the love, care, and service that reflects the heart of Christ. To learn more, visit atlantamission.org.
Cause: Poverty

The Foster Care Support Foundation is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization that gives free clothes, toys, and safe, infant-care equipment to some of Georgia's 10,000 foster children. As the only statewide foster care support organization, they strive to implement a community-based resource and education program that will decrease abuse and neglect in foster care and the need for institutionalization. To learn more, visit fostercares.org.
Causes: Poverty; Children-At-Risk

Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb is a nonprofit healthcare practice that provides a comprehensive range of services for patients without health insurance or the means to afford care. Its mission statement is to spread the love of Christ by providing quality healthcare to those in need. To learn more, visit goodsamcobb.org.
Causes: Sickness

Lighthouse Family Retreat serves children with cancer and their families at a seaside getaway to help them laugh, restore family relationships, and find hope in God. They endeavor to provide some momentary normalcy in the midst of the chaos illness can create: kids just being kids -- playing in the sand; laughing in the sun; and enjoy a vacation as if maybe for just a week cancer has all but disappeared. To learn more, visit lighthousefamilyretreat.org.
Causes: Sickness

North Fulton Community Charities (NFCC) compassionately works to prevent homelessness in North Fulton County by supporting families and individuals during short-term emergencies. Since 1983, NFCC has been committed to assisting families with rent, utilities, transportation, food, clothing, medicine, and other basic needs. Personnel and operating costs for NFCC are funded mostly by the income from the NFCC Thrift Shop, which is supported by donations from the local community. To learn more, visit nfcchelp.org.
Causes: Poverty; Hunger

The Child Development Association (CDA) provides affordable childcare and early learning programs for children of low-income families in the Metro-Atlanta area. Their childcare services for children (ages three months to five years) enable hardworking parents to maintain full-time employment to support their families. The CDA also provides a variety of parent support services, including parenting education, information and referral, counseling, emergency assistance, and a comprehensive nutrition program. To learn more, visit cdakids.org.
Causes: Poverty; Children-At-Risk

MUST Ministries-Cherokee serves those in need in our community with its food pantry, clothing closet, financial assistance, translation assistance, housing, and seasonal programming. To learn more, visit mustministries.org/Cherokee.
Causes: Poverty; Hunger; Children-At-Risk

Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, economic, social, and physica poverty and enables them to become responsible and fulfilled Christian adults. Compassion helps more than 1.2 million children in 26 countries. To learn more, visit compassion.com.
Cause: Children-At-Risk

Future Hope Special Needs Children's Services exists to assist the local church to be God's hands, feet, and voice to abandoned, disabled children in Southeast Asia. They provide for the medical care of children before helping them be placed in foster homes, equip local churches to provide special education, and train local Christians to provide physical and occupational therapy for disabled children.
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La Casa de mi Padre is a children’s home in San Salvador, El Salvador. It is a Christ-centered ministry providing care, healing, and hope to children in crisis with the desire to restore their hearts, relationships, and lives. Children come to La Casa through Child Protective Services and the Family Court System due to situations of abuse, abandonment, and extreme poverty. To learn more, visit mfh-elsalvador.org.
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The 410 Bridge is a Christian organization that "believes that a network of committed U.S. churches partnering with communities and villages in a single country in Africa can make a difference." They partner with community leaders in rural Kenya to help them move forward as a community, physically and spiritually. They serve alongside Kenyans in 12 rural communities, focusing on projects that bring water, quality education and healthcare, spiritual development, and micro-enterprise opportunities to those areas. globalX has partnered with The 410 Bridge for years in sending teams to serve God and his children in Kenya. To learn more, visit 410bridge.org.
Cause: Sickness