Adamsville Earth Day

Adamsville Earth Day clean-up is a large effect including neighborhood trash clean-up, cleaning up of 3 parks, cleaning and planting a community garden, and recycling applicances and automobiles, all to beautify this southwest Atlanta community.

Visit them on the web: www.adamsville.us/Adamsville.html

APS - Peyton Forest Elementary

Peyton Forest Elementary School is part of Atlanta Public Schools (APS). APS provide a high-performing learning environment with excellent teachers, the latest technologies and practices, and innovative learning environments that know no geographic, racial, or economic boundaries.

Visit them on the web: srt1.atlantapublicschools.us/peytonforest/site/default.asp

City of Atlanta

City of Atlanta - Adams Park Recreation Center

Adams Park is located in the southwest part of our city in one of Atlanta's oldest neighborhoods. It is part of the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs. The park includes a basketball gym, softball fields, a swimming pool, tennis courts, and a football field on 37 acres of land.

City of Atlanta - Adamsville Recreation Center

Adamsville Recreation Center acts as a sports facility for the community including a pool, gym, auditorium, and banquet rooms. It's located in the Adamsville neighborhood on the west side of Atlanta near the junction of 285 and I-20.

City of Atlanta - Athens Avenue

The Capitol View neighborhood, located directly south of downtown, has a community garden which helps feed neighbors and provide recreational activities for it's residents.

City of Atlanta - Chosewood Park

The Chosewood Park neighborhood is close to downtown in southeast Atlanta. The community features several older homes, a community park, and a few other local parks.

City of Atlanta - Edwin Place Park Community

Edwin Place Park is located off Donald L. Hollowell Parkway in west Atlanta. The 4.5 acre park is located in the middle of a residential neighborhood.

City of Atlanta - Historic Fourth Ward Park

The Old Fourth Ward is the area anchored by the MLK Historic District, bounded by downtown Atlanta on the West, Ponce de Leon on the North, DeKalb Ave on the South, and the BeltLine on the East. Historic Fourth Ward Park will be a 35-acre Atlanta greenspace stretching roughly from North Avenue to Freedom Parkway. It is the first new Atlanta BeltLine park.

City of Atlanta - Lakewood Heights

Lakewood Heights neighborhood is located directly south of downtown Atlanta. The area is home to the Lakewood Amphitheatre.

City of Atlanta - Maxwell and Connally

Part of Atlanta City District 11, this established neighborhood is located between Langford Parkway, Dobson Drive, and Headland Drive.

City of Atlanta - Memorial Park

Memorial Park covers 69 acres of undeveloped land offering a recreation field, playground, and busy jogging trail. During September 2009, the park was flooded and still has lots of debris in and around it's creek.

City of Atlanta - Mozley Park neighborhood

The Mozley Park District is a typical early 20th-century residential neighborhood, located approximately three miles west of downtown Atlanta. The community is named after the original landowner, Dr. Hiram Mozley. Most of the homes were built between 1920-1940. The community contains a park and Stanton Elementary School.

City of Atlanta - Oakland City Park Recreation Center

Oakland City Park is located in the southwest part of our city. It is part of the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs. The park includes an outdoor basketball court, a swimming pool, tennis courts, and a softball field.

City of Atlanta - Peachtree Hills Recreation Center

Peachtree Hills Park is a seven-acre park with recreation center, softball field, lighted tennis courts and playground.

City of Atlanta - Perry Blvd.

The Hollywood Heights is located west of downtown Atlanta. Within the community, there's two cemeteries, Gun Club Park, Young Middle School, and Carsons Honor Preparatory Academy.

City of Atlanta - Proctor Street

Proctor Street is part of the English Avenue neighborhood in southwest Atlanta. The English Avenue community was founded in the 1890's and named after a former Atlanta mayor, James W. English. Today, the neighborhood is working towards revitalization.

City of Atlanta - Rosel Fann Recreation Center

Located in the Rosedale Heights neighborhood in southeast Atlanta, Rosel Fann offers the community a pool, gym, and fields for play outside.

City of Atlanta - Sims Estate Neighborhood

Sims Estate Neighborhood is located 3 miles west of downtown Atlanta near the intersection of Hollywood and Johnson Roads.

City of Atlanta - South Atlanta

The South Atlanta community, originally called Brownsville, is a historic African-American neighborhood. The neighborhood was created and designed by Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University) and Gammon Theological Seminary.

City of Atlanta - Tanyard Creek

Tanyard Creek Park is located at Collier Road and Walthall Drive in Collier Hills neighborhood. The park is 14.5 acres with historic markers, a historic mill site across Collier Road, an overlook, creek, and playscape.

City of Atlanta - Thomasville Heights

Thomasville Heights is located about 5 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta. The community has a park, recreation center, library, elementary school, and is home to the Starlight Drive-In Theatre.

City of Atlanta - Urban Villa Neighborhood

The Urban Villa neighborhood is located in west Atlanta near I-20 and W. Lake Avenue. The community includes White Elementary School and is nearby Lincoln Cemetery.

City of Atlanta - Vine City

Vine City, located west of downtown Atlanta, is one of Atlanta’s earliest predominantly African-American residential neighborhoods. It was settled in the 19th century and is the location of the family home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, Vine City is near the Georgia Dome and Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta University, Spellman College, and Morris Brown College, Morehouse School of Medicine.

City of Atlanta - Woodland Avenue

As a results of the Atlanta 2009 flood, a large tree fell across an elderly lady's yard. Atlanta City District 1 is working to help her remove the tree from her yard.

Community Life Church

Community Life Church works in Atlanta's urban communities. Growing from home fellowships to neighborhood-based ministry, the mission of Community Life Church is to reconnect the church to the neighborhood in visible, practical, and transformative ways.

Visit them on the web: http://fcsministries.org/collective/community-fellowships

Oakland Cemetery

Oakland Cemetery (1850), is a municipal burial ground owned and operated by the City of Atlanta, Department of Parks, and Recreation and Cultural Affairs. Oakland is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was recognized in November 2009 by Forbes magazine as one of the best city parks in the United States.

Visit them on the web: www.oaklandcemetery.com

Bethlehem Senior Center

Wesley Community Centers, Inc., is a 107-year old agency that serves grassroots human and community needs in Metro Atlanta. Their ministries include Bethlehem Senior Center in South Atlanta, Project Extend home repair service for low income senior and disabled homeowners of Atlanta and Fulton County, and Camp Wesley for children and youth. They are committed to turning faith into action on behalf of those in need.

Visit them on the web: www.wesleycenters.org

Dogwood Neighborhood Center

Dogwood Neighborhood Center is a non-residential senior service site. They provide therapeutic programs and services that meet the needs of the elderly Mondays through Fridays.

Visit them on the web: http://www.scsatl.org/neighborhood_senior_centers.htm

Open Hand

Open Hand - Atlanta's mission is to provide freshly cooked meals and nutritional services to people with symptomatic HIV/AIDS, homebound seniors, and individuals with other critical illnesses or disabilities.

Visit them on the web: www.openhand.org

Senior Citizen Services

Senior Citizen Services enable seniors to enjoy a high quality of life while maintaining their independence and dignity. Some of the provided services include meals on wheels, home repair and maintenance, community senior centers, and an adult day care.

Visit them on the web: www.scsatl.org

Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children

The mission of the Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Chidren is to ease the burden of homelessness for women and children and assist in establishing self-sufficiency by providing comprehensive education and supportive servcies in a manner that respects human dignity.

Visit them on the web: www.atlantadayshelter.org

Atlanta Union Mission - Carpenter's House

Atlanta Union Mission is a Christian ministry that brings Christ's healing power to individuals in crisis through programs of rescue and recovery, including emergency shelter, residential recovery, and transitional housing. Carpenter's House was formerly a men's shelter. It was flooded in the fall of 2009 and is currently being re-purposed.

Visit them on the web: www.atlantaunionmission.org

Atlanta Union Mission - Fuqua Hall

Atlanta Union Mission is a Christian ministry that brings Christ's healing power to men in crisis through programs of rescue and recovery, including emergency shelter, residential recovery, and transitional housing. Fuqua Hall is their men's transitional housing program located in downtown Atlanta. It houses 88 men as they transition from homelessness to independence.

Visit them on the web: www.atlantaunionmission.org

Atlanta Union Mission - My Sister's House

Atlanta Union Mission is a Christian ministry that brings Christ's healing power to men in crisis through programs of rescue and recovery, including emergency shelter, residential recovery, and transitional housing. Their Howell Mill Road Campus, My Sister's House, is the Mission's full service center for women and children. The campus houses 136 women and children in nightly emergency shelter. It also houses 128 women and children in the Mission's residential recovery program.

Visit them on the web: www.atlantaunionmission.org

Atlanta Union Mission - The Shepherd's Inn

Atlanta Union Mission is a Christian ministry that brings Christ's healing power to men in crisis through programs of rescue and recovery, including emergency shelter, residential recovery, and transitional housing. The Shepherd's Inn is their men's emergency shelter located in downtown Atlanta. It provides hot meals, shower facilities, clean clothes and beds for up to 218 men daily. The Shepherd's Inn also houses up to 98 men for the first phase of the residential addiction recovery program, which lasts four to six weeks.

Visit them on the web: www.atlantaunionmission.org

Buckhead Christian Ministry

Buckhead Christian Ministry is a faith-based, non-profit organization that provides emergency assistance to individuals and families. BCM places special emphasis on preventing homelessness through education and the provision of food, clothing, and financial assistance to families and individuals in crisis. BCM also provides long term assistance for working parents and their children through a transitional housing program and money management courses.

Visit them on the web: www.buckheadchristianministry.org

Clifton Sanctuary Ministries

Clifton Sanctuary Ministries provides year-round transitional housing services and comprehensive life skills counseling to homeless men who are seeking independent living and self- sufficiency. They also provides short term emergency shelter for men that are sick, elderly, disabled, living with HIV/AIDS, living with mental health, recovering from drug/alcohol addiction. Guests receives food, showers, clothing, personal hygiene items, and intensive counseling.

Visit them on the web: www.cliftonsanctuary.com

Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta

The Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta provides essential household furnishings to previously homeless families and individuals, including people living with HIV/AIDS, and women and children fleeing domestic violence.

Visit them on the web: www.furniturebankatlanta.org

Genesis Shelter

Genesis Shelter enables homeless families to remain together and creates a participatory community in which parents have the opportunity to live with their children in privacy and with dignity. They enable the families of homeless newborns to move from homelessness to self-sufficiency by providing a range of services. They seeks to provide services that are comprehensive, and these services, whether provided by Genesis or through collaboration, include counseling, support, education, mental health, child development, aftercare and transitional programs.

Visit them on the web: www.genesisshelter.com

SafeHouse Outreach

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 them back into society ­ to lead healthy, functional lives.

Visit them on the web: www.safehouseoutreach.com

APS - Bolton Academy

Bolton Academy is part of Atlanta Public Schools (APS). APS provide a high-performing learning environment with excellent teachers, the latest technologies and practices, and innovative learning environments that know no geographic, racial, or economic boundaries.

Visit them on the web: srt4.atlantapublicschools.us/bolton/site/default.asp

APS - Woodson Elementary

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 strives to equip students to graduate from college as well as prepares them to become contributing citizens, international scholars, and catalysts of societal change. Of the students enrolled at Woodson, 95% of the population is eligible for free or reduced lunch, which is an indication of low income.

Visit them on the web: srt4.atlantapublicschools.us/woodson/site/default.asp

Bright Futures Atlanta

Bright Futures Atlanta provides educational, social, and spiritual opportunities for adolescents and their families in inner-city Atlanta. As a way to break the cycle of too-early parenthood, glorification of criminality, and criticism of academic achievement, year-round programming is offered in an environment conducive to learning, for the physical as well as spiritual growth of participants.

Visit them on the web: www.brightfuturesatl.org

Covenant House Georgia

Covenant House Georgia is a part of Covenant House which is the largest privately funded childcare agency in the United States providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth.

Visit them on the web: http://www.covenanthousega.org

StandUp for Kids

The mission of StandUp for Kids is to help homeless and street children They strive to accomplish their mission through on-the-streets outreach efforts tol find, stabilize, and assist homeless and street children in their efforts to improve their lives. They also provide resource programs in schools and through the Internet.

Visit them on the web: www.standupforkids.org