Mission and Causes

Mission: To lead those displaced by addiction through care, support, and education into long-term recovery.

Mission: To break the cycle of generational poverty for women in the Athens, Georgia area and surrounding counties by providing technical training scholarships, grants for materials support, and aligning with strategic partners.

Mission: Strives to eradicate diaper need by providing diapers to low-income families in the Athens area, while raising public awareness of diaper need and its impact.

Mission: Aims to maintain and enrich the lives of older persons in 27 counties of Northeast and Eastern Georgia. Our key service areas include providing meals, health and wellness programs, and caregiver support.

Mission: Provides collaborative, comprehensive services to homeless individuals and families working toward sustainable independence.

Mission: Healthcare clinic providing free evaluation, treatment, and education for acute and chronic medical and dental conditions to uninsured low-and-no income residents of Athens-Clarke County and the surrounding communities.

Mission: To promote the well-being of mothers and families through pregnancy and the postpartum period in the Athens area.

Mission: Dedicated to helping our shelter pets find permanent homes or rescue placements, to keeping pets and their families together, and to reducing pet overpopulation in the Athens area.

Mission: Aim to inspire and enable all young people to be successful. We do this by providing our members with a safe space to learn, grow, and have fun. After School.

Mission: Dedicated to preparing youth to lead through community engagement and civic empowerment. Our work uses chess as a learning modality to help youth manage impulsiveness and develop critical thinking skills.

Mission: Exists to create transformative experiences for people with disabilities and their families, changing communities for the better!

Mission: The Get Comfortable Fund was established to channel the generosity of many toward our city’s most pressing needs, which for the next several years, is 3rd Grade reading proficiency within Clarke County Schools.

https://creaturecomfortsbeer.com/get-comfortable/

Mission: Gathers donated items and purchased surplus food and distributes it to human-service agencies. These smaller non-profits then distribute that food to local community members in need.

Mission: Most of our work with students takes place in Clarke County School District classrooms during school hours. The school district generously accepts our support of students during regularly scheduled music classes, allowing us to work with small groups of music students as well as teach one-on-one lessons to increase students’ ability level and confidence on their given instrument.

https://www.heartmusicathens.org/

Mission: To prevent suicide. Maintains a health and resource center for musicians as a safe space to seek support and guidance, provides access to affordable, obstacle-free professional care, actively participates in treatment and educates about awareness, prevention and the risk factors of brain illnesses.

Mission: Offer shelter (if needed) as well as food, clothing and help to connect to permanent housing through the VA housing voucher program.

https://www.neghvs.org/

Mission: Therapeutic horse riding program provides physical, emotional, social, cognitive, behavioral and educational skills for people with disabilities.

oconeetherapeuticriding.org

Mission: Working to end domestic violence through crisis intervention, ongoing supportive services, systems change advocacy, and prevention and education. Project Safe’s primary service area is Madison County, Oconee County, Clarke County, and Oglethorpe County, but provides services to people from all over Georgia.

Mission: It is all about empowering girls from elementary school to high school through community service, team-building, and leadership activities. Our groups at underserved elementary schools in Athens, Georgia focus on leadership and service.

https://www.facebook.com/stronggirlsathens/

Mission: Raises awareness and facilitates the healing of individuals, families and communities affected by sexual violence and child abuse.