Business Directory

Established in 1971, MUST Ministries strives to break the cycle of poverty in Cobb and Cherokee counties by assessing individual needs and providing programs and services to persons and families who are in need of the basics of life – shelter, food, clothing, employment and financial assistance.

The mission of the Cobb Collaborative is educating, engaging and empowering the community to improve the well-being of children and families. Established in 1997, the Cobb Collaborative is the local Georgia Family Connection partner, a statewide network of organizations working to improve outcomes for children and families. Our organization accomplishes this work in Cobb by educating and engaging partners and providing resources for organizations addressing major issues like healthcare, reading proficiency, homelessness, food insecurity and more in our community. We facilitate opportunities for community organizations to join forces to fill service gaps and inefficiencies preventing progress, raise awareness of programs and services available, and mobilize these organizations to continue to fulfill their missions with a high level of fidelity by providing vital capacity building resources. Our partners include nonprofit organizations, local governments, businesses, faith-based organizations, educational institutions, professional organizations, civic associations and engaged citizens. Using the collective impact model, we are able to leverage this partner network to amplify our work and foster collaboration.

We reach thousands of Cobb County stakeholders each year through our programs, services and activities. Interested in learning more or joining us? Visit us at www.cobbcollaborative.org or sign up for our newsletter.

Tommy Nobis Center is among Georgia's largest nonprofit community rehabilitation programs serving youth and adults with disabilities and other barriers to employment. Since 1977, we've helped more than 25,000 people with disabilities find and keep meaningful jobs bringing independence, confidence, success - and a paycheck to the people we serve. Our organization employs more than 75 people with disabilities through AbilityOne government contracts in 22 states. In addition, we produce smart business solutions with high quality, cost-effective services for our business customers which in turn provides opportunities for job training and employment. Pursuing our mission of empowering people through employment, we create lasting impact on the lives of people with disabilities.

A.G. Rhodes is a premier provider of therapy and rehabilitation services, short-term recovery and long-term care. As one of Metro Atlanta’s oldest nonprofits, A.G. Rhodes has set the standard for serving an aging community since 1904. With a dedicated staff of 550, we accommodate more than 1,100 seniors a year at our three homes located in Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton counties. Our mission is to provide expert and compassionate rehabilitation therapy and residential care to seniors in metro Atlanta. For more information, visit www.agrhodes.org.

Advocates for Children provides services to children and families across Northwest Georgia who have been the victims of abuse and neglect. The organization offers safety, comfort and hope to over 8,000 children, youth and adults every year. 

For over 100 years, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has worked relentlessly to save lives and create a world with less cancer. Together with millions of our supporters worldwide, we help people stay well, get well, find cures, and fight back against. The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has regional and local offices throughout the country that support 11 geographical Divisions and ensure we have a presence in every community. To get help or for more information visit us at www.cancer.org or call us any time, day or night, at 1-800-227-2345.

We are a leading cancer-fighting organization with a vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. We are improving the lives of people with cancer and their families as the only organization combating cancer through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. 

The Greater Southeast Affiliate serves Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Puerto Rico. We are committed to reducing disability and death due to heart disease and stroke through our mission. "Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke."

Foster care non-profit

For more than 100 years, Scouting has helped build future leaders by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun and adventure in the outdoors. The Atlanta Area Council, Boy Scouts of America cares passionately about what is happening to kids and our communities – and are dedicated to supporting an exciting, quality program that builds better young people and our future leaders.

BSA programs are divided by age and activity: Cub Scouting is for boys and girls in kindergarten through 5^th grade, Scouts BSA is open to young men and young women in grades 6 through 12, and co-ed Venturing are available for young men and young women age 14 through 20. The BSA also offers career-oriented co-ed Exploring programs to youth age 10 through 20. 

Traditional Scouting programs are operated by local chartering organizations, such as religious institutions, clubs, civic associations, and educational organizations, which implement the Scouting program for youth within their communities. Please contact the Atlanta Area Council to learn more about starting a Scouting program in your community. 

From our beginning, most of our children have come from within the State of Georgia. Occasionally, we receive a call regarding a child living out of state but with some family connection in our general area who knows of us and asks if we will help their family. However, recently our children have primarily come from the greater Atlanta area.

Over the past three years Calvary has averaged 25 residents in our long-term Traditional Care Program and approximate 5-6 residents in our Transitional Program. For 55 years each child in our care has had a custom plan of care that is followed by our Houseparents and Program Director. Calvary has served over 400 children since our founding in 1966. Over the last three years our staff has been responsible for implementing the custom plan of care for each child in their care-making adjustments where necessary-while focusing on the long-term emotional, physical, and spiritual health of each child. Custom plans of care include Residential Care, Social Services, Spiritual Development, Educational Opportunities, Counseling Services, Medical Services and Recreational Activities (scholastic, community, etc.) Calvary has also been responsible for providing 82,125 meals to our children over the last three years.

Over the last three years our plan of care has produced multiple high school graduates, allowed four residents to enter college, one resident enrolled in FAA mechanics program, one Marine, one in the United States Navy and one of our youngest to ever enter the care of the Home graduate college, marry, have a child of her own and become a Child Safety Investigator for DFACs in Jacksonville, FL. We are pleased to add that during the pandemic we were able to add two more children into our long-term care program.

Calvary’s focus on long-term care and the low turnover of the children in our care and staff has resulted in measurable improvement, stability and growth in their emotional development, spiritual development, academic performance, community involvement and personal relationships in accordance with the custom plan of care being implemented daily with each child.

Founded in 1960, the mission of The Center for Family Resources is to strengthen individuals, families and communities. Three main areas of programs are offered: Direct Services, Housing Services and Employment/Education Services.

The Cobb Community Foundation (“CCF”) was created in 1993 by a group of Cobb County business leaders to make it easy for everyone to give back to their community.

CCF provides multiple vehicles through which individuals, families, businesses and other organizations can contribute cash, marketable securities, real estate and other assets for charitable purposes. Donor Advised Funds allow most of the functionality of a private, family or corporate foundation without the corresponding complexities and costs.

You can create a Donor Advised Fund with as little as $5,000 with the completion of single form. You add to that fund whenever you choose, and with every contribution, you receive immediate tax benefits.

You can recommend which IRS-qualified public charities will receive grants from your Donor Advised Fund, when and in what amounts. You can even decide who will make those recommendations when you are no longer able to do so. Donor Advised Funds be funded with cash, although it often makes more sense to use low-basis assets or in some cases even real estate or closely-held business interests.

Likewise, these funds are often created in high income years, such as years when deferred comp is recognized, or real estate or other assets sold at a gain. While Donor Advised Funds can give to any public charity, including those outside of Cobb County, there are no requirements for when these grants must be made, giving the donor whatever time is needed to make those decisions.

A Scholarship Fund can be an ideal mechanism for companies, service clubs and other organizations to support the education of employees, family members of employees and other students meeting the selection criteria established. The Cobb Community Foundation can guide you through the process of defining your criteria, creating your application, appointing your selection committee, and evaluating and notifying your candidates. Likewise, we can simply handle all of it for you, if you would prefer.

A Designated Fund allows you to support a designated charity and make it easy for others to do so, as well. You can participate in decisions regarding the timing and amount of payments from the fund to your designated charity or simply have the Cobb Community Foundation coordinate those decisions with the charitable beneficiary.

Designated Funds are often created as endowments, although that is not a requirement. A Field of Interest Fund supports a particular cause, such as the arts, animal welfare, education or homelessness. Like a Designated Fund does for a single organization, a Field of Interest Fund makes it easy for you and others to ensure that resources are available to support those initiatives and organizations which focus on the causes that matter most to you.

Field of Interest Funds can be endowed or non-endowed. Unrestricted Funds are the choice of donors who want their gifts to address the community’s changing needs, both now and for generations to come. When you create a community endowment, or give to an existing one, you know that your gift will be available when and where it is needed most.

Cobb County Department of Family and Children Services is the part of Georgia DHS that investigates child abuse; finds foster homes for abused and neglected children; helps low income, out-of-work parents get back on their feet; assists with child care costs for low income parents who are working; and provides numerous support services and innovative programs to help troubled families.

Founded in 2003, The Cobb County Public Library Foundation (Cobb Library Foundation for short) is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization that provides support to the Cobb County Public Library System by raising funds and seeking other contributions from the community and business partnerships.

The Cobb Schools Foundation is dedicated to supporting, rewarding and enhancing the schools, staff and students of Cobb County School District by: • Recognizing and rewarding excellence in teaching and learning. • Promoting innovative instruction in the classroom through grants to our teachers and schools. • Ensuring a successful learning environment for all students. • Providing an opportunity for the community to actively contribute to public education.

The Extension is the leading provider of residential treatment services for homeless, addicted men and women in the state of Georgia. We are a licensed and accredited, community-supported, non-profit organization making a real difference and lasting difference in the lives of those we serve. Our vision is to become the replicable model of success in our community and beyond for the prevention, intervention and treatment of chemical dependency for those without the ability to pay.

The Georgia Association of Manufacturers (GAM) is the voice of Georgia’s manufacturing industry. Founded by manufacturers for manufacturers, GAM advocates on behalf of its members at the state level, provides high-value programming and events, and fosters collaboration through issue-focused councils. Our mission is to strengthen Georgia’s manufacturing competitiveness and create a thriving environment for industry growth.

Governed by a Board of Directors, the Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation established in 1994 to provide emergency relief assistance during times of financial crisis to the members and families of the Georgia National Guard, federal/state civilian employees of the Georgia Department of Defense and other qualified military members living in the State of Georgia. Although not a military organization, the Foundation is recognized as an official support organization of the Georgia National Guard.

Girls Inc. of Greater Atlanta is nonprofit youth development organization that focuses on "Inspiring all girls to be Strong, Smart & Bold. "Serving Cobb County and the Greater Atlanta area for 43 years, Girls inc. of Greater Atlanta has provided "Pro-Girl" programming to over 1110,000 amazing young ladies. Through our After-School, Summer, School and Community based programs, we present interactive curriculum that promotes academics, healthy social emotional learning and girl empowerment through advocacy.

Foster youth deserve better. Because of the trauma and abuse many experience, they face daunting statistics: low graduation rates, high rates of incarceration, homelessness, substance abuse, and unemployment. Many foster youth grow up to repeat the same cycle of abuse and neglect that put them in foster care. Goshen Valley is working to change this reality. Our mission is to provide hope and healing to foster youth and vulnerable families to cultivate personal healing and generational change. The 120+ kids in our residential programs each day are experiencing, for the first time, the safety of a home, the love of a family, and the hope of a future. Our residential programs consist of the top-rated group home in Georgia for teenage boys, foster homes where we reunite sibling groups, and a program for 18 to 21-year-old foster youth who have chosen to remain in care for a few extra years of support. Additionally, Goshen has launched a community therapeutic services program that provides mental health services to vulnerable families. Goshen Valley is fully accredited by the Council on Accreditation, was named an AJC Top Workplace in 2021-2022, is a North Point Ministries Intersect Partner, and maintains a Guidestar Platinum Seal of Transparency. 

Economic Mobility - Entrepreneurship, Workforce Development, Financial Education

Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization operated on Christian principles and is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing and rehabilitating homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions. Each new NW Metro Atlanta Habitat house generates $257,000 in new revenue to the local community throughout the duration of the 25-year mortgage.

A 501(c)3 devoted to education, travel and real estate learning and gifts

We mobilize volunteers, respond to disasters, and strengthen communities in over 60 countries to inspire greater hope in this world.

"KultureCity is the world's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to sensory accessibility and inclusion for the one in four individuals with sensory needs and invisible disabilities. Our primary mission is to partner with venues, organizations, large public events, and public servants, including hospitals, schools, and first responders, to provide a sensory inclusive certification."

Sensory Inclusion with KultureCity involves comprehensive staff training and providing sensory resources and tools to accommodate the sensory needs community at any public venue or event. These resources and tools include sensory bags, sensory rooms, sensory pods, and sensory mobile units and trailers.

Additionally, through our "Make the Nevers Possible" initiative, we create unique experiences for individuals with sensory needs. This program aims to make dreams a reality for those with sensory needs, ensuring that no dream or wish is limited by accessibility, time, space, location, or size."

liveSAFE Resources (formerly the YWCA of Northwest Georgia) has served our community for 100 years. We are committed to providing safety and healing to those impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse by offering services, creating awareness, and fostering support within our community.

Make-A-Wish® Georgia has granted over 6,000 wishes in our local community. We believe that a wish experience can be a game-changer. This one belief guides us in everything we do. It inspires us to grant wishes that change the lives of the kids we serve.

The Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art continues to acquire works for its permanent collections. The museum features ambitious special exhibitions throughout the year. Tours, lectures, classes, art camp and other educational, social, and cultural opportunities are also offered. Dedication to fulfilling its slogan “building community through art” is evidenced throughout the Museum’s range of events and activities.

At the Y, we believe all people, especially children, deserve and equal chance to reach their full potential. Inclusion is at the heart of the YMCA mission. As a leading non-profit in Cobb, we strive to make our programs widely affordable and accessible. With three branches in Cobb, we are sure to meet your wellness needs.

Mission 1:27 is a faith-based nonprofit serving under-resourced communities by helping kids grow, teens lead, and neighbors thrive together. We do this through four core programs: Adventure Centers (after-school and summer programs for K–5 students), Adventure Teens (leadership development for middle and high school students), Legacy Programs (social, educational, and enrichment opportunities for senior adults), and Neighbor Network (support for adults and families). Through strong partnerships with volunteers, churches, businesses, and civic leaders, Mission 1:27 creates meaningful connections and fosters a sense of belonging in every community we serve.

Reflection of Trinity’s vision is to build stronger communities through service and to be the leading model nonprofit in the fight against hunger, assuring that no family goes hungry. This is accomplished all while keeping an eye to continually adding services and programs to better meet the plethora of challenges at-risk and marginalized families face daily.

The organization is the brainchild of Founder Laurie Wong, who felt a calling in 2000 to respond to the benevolent needs of her community. At that time, there were no other charitable programs or active nonprofits serving her neighbors in Powder Springs, a community surrounded by those struggling with poverty and need. Used clothing drives to distribute items to the poor and thrift community sales benefitted hundreds of impoverished households. Community support and a growing volunteer base resulted in opening a brick-and- mortar Reflections of Trinity Thrift Store in 2003. In addition to selling donated items to secure program funding, the thrift shop was an opportunity for those in need to receive clothing, furniture, and household necessities at no charge – and with dignity.

Joined by dedicated volunteers, Reflections continued to aid other nonprofits with meals and resources, supporting the missions of Safehouse Outreach, Seven Bridges and other agencies working to alleviate hunger and poverty in the Atlanta area, preparing and serving over 3,000 meals each year, over a decade, to the homeless. Reflections has always been the very essence of meaningful community collaboration; faithfully aiding individuals and sister nonprofit organization wherever and whenever there was a need. In 2005 when thousands were displaced by Hurricane Katrina and came to Cobb County, Reflections donated the entire inventory of the thrift shop to victims in need. Again in 2009, when nearby Austell was struck with horrific floods, causing hundreds to lose their homes, Reflections temporarily closed the thrift store to offer it as a centralized donation center. All the contents of the store were given to flood victims, depleting the entire store.

The community responded in kind after this generous outpouring: the inventory was completely replenished within two months after giving it all away.

Over the years, Reflections has been a first responder in every major hurricane in the U.S. and abroad, transporting thousands of food items, bottled water and human essentials to the people of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, as well as over 26,000 lbs. of water, diapers, and necessities to Puerta Rico residents in 2017 after a hurricane ravaged that island. Reflections has been quietly on the forefront of every major disaster since its inception. Most recently, Reflections reacted with speed to the devastation in Florida caused by Hurricane Ian in late September 29=022 and sent 8 pallets of water--—13,824 bottles of water-- to displaced Floridians.

Depleting the thrift store inventory in response to Hurricane Katrina was the catalyst that led to another opportunity to raise funds for the community. Reflections’ leadership saw the opportunity for increased funding through online used product sales, leading them to the Internet in 2005 to launch the Reflections of Trinity eBay store. It quickly gained traction and was even recognized in 2016 by eBay as the Grand Prize Winner of the inaugural “eBay Shine Awards” for charitable community impact and business performance on the eBay platform. Online sales allow for a national and international audience, expanding the organization’s footprint significantly across the globe. Reflections is often called upon to consult on best practices and successful online sales for nonprofits.

With the combined retail and online sales success fueling nearly all the organization’s funding, Reflections established the Reflections Food Pantry adjacent to the retail store in 2012, providing healthy and free groceries to those in need in Powder Springs and surrounding communities. Over the last 10 years, the food pantry has grown in scope, volunteers and supporting partners, distributing fresh and nonperishable food to over 500,000 individuals, an estimated 10,000,000,000 lbs. of food. A dedicated and robust volunteer network supports over 1,200 families each week with three distinct food programs providing a healthy assortment of perishables and non-perishables from each food group to young and old, ensuring that no household struggles with food insecurity. In June 2021, the food pantry gained an additional 6,000 sq. ft. by converting the retail thrift store into a new food pantry space to adequately serve our existing clients and expand our community reach in underserved regions. The thrift store downsized to 1,500 sq. ft and remains in the same retail center.

Although not widely known, today Reflections provides more food to Cobb County’s hungry than any other nonprofit organization in the region. In 2021, the pantry distributed close to 3 million lbs. of food, serving over 55,000 unique individuals. The organization is on track to surpass that number in 2022, in large part due to the ongoing residual economic impact of COVID on the area’s working poor, as well as skyrocketing food prices. Today Reflections provides food to over 6,900 unique individuals each month and has served 39 Georgia Counties.

Food insecurity refers to a household that lacks access to enough food--and only limited or irregular availability of nutritious foods, for each member of the household to be adequately nourished and healthy. The relationship between food, economic security, and public health is interrelated. When family incomes drop, food insecurity rates rise, directly impacting health and nutrition. According to the USDA, more than 34 million people, including 9 million children, in the United States are food insecure. Many households that experience food insecurity do not qualify for federal nutrition programs and must visit their local food banks and rely other food programs to combat hunger.

The number of children experiencing hunger in our community is frightening. The most recent census data (2020) for the metro Atlanta region’s 29 counties estimate that 11% of children are food insecure and 16% of children face going to school hungry each day. The Atlanta Community’s Food Bank finds that those statistics have not improved. An estimated 53% of Georgia public-school students will qualify for and truly need free lunches during the 2022-2023 school year.

Located in Powder Springs in the South Cobb County region often referred to as the “Red Zone” due to high under and unemployment, low earnings, hunger and Title 1 schools with dismal literacy and graduation rates, Reflection’s primary focus is serving those living in surrounding Powder Springs neighborhoods. But no one in need is ever turned away when seeking aid and encounter data gathered remarkably reflects that residents of 39 unique Georgia counties have turned to Reflections of Trinity for aid. In addition to Cobb, the highest concentration of Georgians benefitting from food distribution and Reflections of Trinity’s largest food distribution initiative occurs each Saturday and is open to the public, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm. Food is distributed via a volunteer-manned, drive-through format.
Each client/family receives an 85-100 lbs. box of assorted fresh and non-perishable foods, (fruits, vegetables, bread, meat, snacks, and canned goods), It is estimated the contents of the box could sustain an individual for a week or more, and 3 days or more for a family of four.

Most of the food is sourced from the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB) where Reflections is ranked as one of the top 3 food distribution agencies in the ACFB distribution region.

Each month, approximately 2300 unique families/individuals receive food through our efforts. There are an estimated 852,574 in the 29-county metro Atlanta area experiencing food insecurity, according to the Inspire Foundation and the Georgia Senate Food Insecurity Roundtable. Reflections of Trinity is effectively feeding nearly 28,000 of them each year and are only limited in aiding the rest by the available donations of dollars and goods.

Guided by the belief that nothing is more important than getting the best possible treatment when a child is sick or injured, ARMHC operates two Ronald McDonald Houses – a 50-guestroom House near Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston and a 31-guestroom House near Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite. The Houses provide private accommodations, daily meals, transportation to and from the hospital, laundry facilities, and a sense of community for families who must travel to obtain specialized pediatric medical care. ARMHC is committed to offering a safe haven for those who need it most and delivers services to families. By keeping families together, reducing financial burden, and fostering networks of support, our Houses have an immediate positive impact. In 2023, ARMHC hosted more than 3,000 family visits, providing a “home-away-from-home” for 25,265 nights. Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Reducing barriers to life-changing care, the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile is a collaborative outreach program between ARMHC and Children’s Healthcare at Hughes Spalding bringing asthma education and treatment to elementary and middle school-aged youth in metro neighborhoods where the greatest risk has been identified. Services on the 40-foot mobile clinic are delivered by expert Children’s Asthma Center staff in partnership with Atlanta Public Schools. Since its launch in October 2016, the Care Mobile has conducted over 8,000 visits.

We offer a variety of programs that are aimed to help Latino families develop stronger bonds with one another and have a deeper connection. Ser Familia offers the following programs: o Couples Workshops o Escuela Para Padres® (Parenting Classes)