Another Way Foundation
Another Way Foundation is committed to expanding the scope of mental health and addictive disease services through compassionate, educational, innovative, and individualized care.
Nonprofit Directory
Backstreet Community Arts
Backstreet Community Arts exists to provide a safe, welcoming, creative environment to anyone who may benefit from the healing powers of art and community. Study after study proves that Art has a positive effect on the mind, body and soul. Backstreet Arts reaches out to anyone and everyone who may not be aware of or have access to the proven healing power of art: those who have experienced trauma, illness, or grief; veterans and others suffering from PTSD; at-risk teenagers; disabled adults; homeless and low-income individuals who cannot afford art classes, and anyone who wants to practice art in a comfortable, non-intimidating atmosphere.
Boys and Girls Club - Newnan/Coweta
In 1996, the Newnan/Coweta Boys & Girls Club opened it doors, providing and offering after-school programs to draw young people in the community into positive environment. In 2002, our Club moved into its new facility. Newnan/Coweta Boys & Girls Club is part of a nationwide affiliation of the local, autonomous organizations working with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to help youth from all backgrounds develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and leaders.
Established in 1986, Bloom Our Youth is a nationally recognized and accredited 501(c)3 nonprofit with a mission to “strengthen foster children and empower the families that care for them.” Last year, Bloom provided essential items like clothing, school supplies, toiletries, and shoes to over 5,000 foster children.
Bridging the Gap
BTG Community Outreach, Inc. (locally known as Bridging the Gap) is a nonprofit organization based in Coweta County, Georgia. We provide food, clothing, and household goods to people who are struggling in our community.
B.Y.R.D. House
B.Y.R.D. House is an organization that was created to help reduce risk factors associated with poverty, family dynamics, school stresses, individual and peer structure, and substance abuse. We have appropriate strategies in place to connect these youth and their families with professionals who can provide the support and guidance necessary for positive socialization.
Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity
The ultimate goal of NCHFH, along with Habitat For Humanity International (HFHI), is to eliminate poverty housing from the face of the earth, particularly in Coweta County, by building simple, decent housing, putting shelter on the hearts and minds of people in such a powerful way that poverty housing becomes socially, politically and religiously unacceptable in our community, our nation and the world.
Christian City
Since 1965, Christian City has served Coweta County and the entire metro Atlanta area by providing life-changing hope for children and families in crisis and affordable housing for the senior adult population. Through our five Children & Family Programs – Children’s Village Residential Program, Crossroads Foster Care & Adoption Program, Safe Place Runaway and Homeless Youth Program, Thrive Graduate Transition Program, and Healthy Families Program – we are able to serve youth from birth to young adulthood as well as their families. In addition, Christian City offers a vibrant, active community to the nearly 1,000 senior adult residents who live on our campus.
Community Action For Improvement (CAFI) remained on the “front lines” during the peak of the pandemic and served thousands of families and individuals by distributing CAREs Act and American Rescue Plan Act fundings as well as providing Low-Income Home Energy Assistance, Housing Stability, Home Weatherization, and Early & Head Start Programs in Coweta county and other four surrounding counties.
88 Coweta CASA volunteers advocated for safety, permanency and wellbeing needs for 211 children experiencing foster care 2021. These volunteers volunteered 3583 hours of their time and drove 16,347 miles to provide quality advocacy services.
The Coweta Community Foundation is a place of connection, where generosity and community action meet to create powerful impacts improving the quality of life for all people. For over 25 years, we have been where local good grows, working side by side with people and organizations as a catalyst for positive change. Partnering with the Coweta Community Foundation is a great way to carry out the good you want to see in your community. We have in-depth knowledge of community needs, and we work closely with local nonprofits to strengthen Coweta. We can connect you to what you’re passionate about and help you make a difference.
Coweta FORCE has served 18,112 community members from January – October of 2021.
Coweta F.O.R.C.E. assisted those seeking recovery and their families with the next best action step for them to achieve long-term recovery through education, advocacy, and direct peer recovery support services.
Coweta Samaritan Clinic has changed, and saved, the lives of nearly 3,000 Coweta County adult residents through over a decade of providing free primary and specialty healthcare services to our neighbors in need. The Clinic is funded almost entirely by private donations, and its services are made possible by community support. To learn more, visit csccares.org.
Coweta STEM Institute
Our Vision is to promote interest and enthusiasm in science and the technologies, particularly among elementary and middle school teachers and students… to encourage females and minorities to enter science and technology fields… to help U.S. students become the first in the world in science and math… and to prepare better qualified workers for our nation’s industries. For further information, contact: director@cowetastem.org
Coweta Family Connection
Coweta Family Connection serves as the local decision-making body, bringing community partners together to develop, implement, and evaluate plans that address the serious challenges facing Coweta’s children and families.
Coweta Organization for Riding Rehabilitation and Learning (CORRAL)
The mission of CORRAL is to provide and promote equine-assisted learning for physically and/or mentally challenged individuals in a safe, loving and Christian environment by offering participants exposure to a sense of freedom and achievement while enjoying the outdoors.
ELEVATE Coweta Students
ELEVATE Coweta Students surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Doing so allows for over 1200 student interactions per month during school time, in addition to staff serving over 350 students with one-on-one case management.
The Frayed Edges Foundation was started to help make counseling, workshops, and other mental health services more affordable for people who need assistance.
In 2021, the Goodwill Career Center in Newnan served more than 4000 people. We have helped facilitate job connections for more than 700 people, and we prepared 1250 tax returns during the 2021 tax season, all at no charge!
The purpose of the Healing Bridge Clinic is to demonstrate and communicate God’s love while providing free primary healthcare. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organized for charitable and educational purposes. We operate as a comprehensive medical clinic, where the residents of Fayette and surrounding counties can find access to care and resources for medical intervention, health education and prevention free of charge.
H.E.L.P. Spay Neuter Clinic
H.E.L.P. Spay Neuter Clinic’s mission is to provide a non-lethal solution to companion animal overpopulation. We help control the animal population by providing high-volume, high-quality, low-cost spay/neuter procedures for Coweta and surrounding counties.
Hope Global Initiative
Our mission is to restore the hope that the future people dream of can actually become a reality. We are dedicated to inspire and equip underserved children, youth and adults to develop for themselves the solutions they need for the challenges they face.
Hope Revisited
In the past year, Hope Revisited has provided over 1500 hours of visitation, parenting and mentorship to foster children and their families in our community.
Meals On Wheels of Coweta
Meals on Wheels of Coweta (MOWOC) provides home delivered meals at no cost to Coweta residents who are 65 years old or older, homebound because of disability or chronic illness, physically unable to prepare meals for themselves, and are not receiving regular meal assistance from others.
More Music Foundation
More Music Foundation is committed to providing music education to at-risk youth and cultivating community through the unifying art of learning to play music, because it matters.
Newnan Coweta Humane Society
Newnan-Coweta Humane Society (NCHS) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the number of pets euthanized in Coweta County. Through rescue, foster programs and community awareness, our goal is to one day eliminate the euthanization of healthy, adoptable animals in our area.
N.E.S.T.
Newnan Emergency Shelter Team
Newnan-Coweta Habitat
Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity, Inc. brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope in Coweta County, Georgia.
The Newnan-Coweta Historical Society
The Newnan-Coweta Historical Society (NCHS) is dedicated to preserving and honoring the history of Newnan and Coweta County through exhibits at the McRitchie-Hollis Museum and the Newnan Historic Train Depot.
One Roof
For the first 9 months of 2022:
Financial Assistance Provided: $40,785.59 for 152 families’ basic needs (utilities, shelter, rent)
Personal care, clothing, household items were given to 751 families.
We fed 4,175 families. We are in the middle of giving out 500 holiday boxes with turkeys, and plan to provide hams for Christmas. We will have 145 counseling group sessions given for free to Cowetans by December 31st. We gave out 200 stuffed backpacks and hundreds of pairs of shoes to children this year.
The Rutledge Center
Our mission is to create opportunities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to participate fully in the community.
Our goal is to enable each person we serve to achieve greater independence and a higher quality of life through support and training.
Operation Round Up Coweta-Fayette EMC Trust
Neighbors looking out for other neighbors founded Coweta-Fayette EMC. Today, we operate on that same principal in every community we serve, through a variety of programs that impact everyone from the youngest school child to the elderly on fixed incomes and those with special medical needs. And it’s you, who can take credit for the difference made in the lives of so many others.
Piedmont Healthcare Foundation
Piedmont Healthcare is a not-for-profit healthcare system comprised of hospitals and services located in metro Atlanta communities. This means that we are community owned and, as a not-for-profit, we have a distinct advantage to benefit from generous support through private gifts from our community. Piedmont relies on the generosity of donors to make many of our programs possible. The fact is, every patient who visits a Piedmont facility is touched by our donors whose support makes it possible to buy new equipment, improve facilities and expand research and education programs.
Real Life Center
At the Real Life Center, we impact our community by providing our clients the necessities for living, and then equipping them for life through our holistic service approach. This allows our clients to begin to achieve economic security with the help of our programs and services.
Riverlife
RiverLife connects volunteers with meaningful opportunities to serve in our local community. As of October, we connected 3918 volunteers who spent 28,753 hours serving 712 individuals this year alone. Since 2015, we’ve mobilized over 10,000 volunteers into our local community! These incredible teams are changing lives with hands-on help for home repair, wheelchair access ramps and yard cleanup for individuals and families in need. And for the last year and a half, we have been blessed to be involved with tornado response and recovery efforts with such an amazing community!
Senoia Area Historical Society, Inc.
The Senoia Area Historical Society’s mission is to secure, preserve, and promote the social and cultural history of the community. To this end we will: educate and engage a diverse public through a variety of programs, maintain our museum buildings, properties, and collections, acquire and reserve additional items of significant relevance; research and publish historic records; identify and encourage preservation of significant places and structures throughout the community; work collaboratively with public, private and other non-profit organizations to attain this mission; and manage the society openly, ethically and professionally.
Southern Arc Dance Studio
Southern Arc Dance provides a safe space for creativity, self-esteem, self-confidence, collaboration, and congeniality through movement and dance, including dance for seniors with neurological challenges and children with special needs. Providing professional quality programming on stage, school lecture demonstrations, Artz’N park, a festival celebrating diversity in the arts, and employing young artists. Dance has the power to heal, with improved learning and health, increased tolerance, and opportunities to come together with others.
Southern Conservation Trust
The Southern Conservation Trust (SCT) elevates nature through exceptional stewardship. To protect valuable greenspace, SCT manages six public nature areas in Fayette County, which total over 580 acres for the community to enjoy. SCT also conserves over 65,000 acres- an increase of 20,929 since 2021. Furthermore, The Fayette Environmental Education Center was opened in 2022 and now serves as the community’s environmental education classroom that has served hundreds.
Sisters for Society Corporation is committed to helping individuals and families undergoing unforeseen life situations and hardships by providing food, clothing and financial assistance. Additionally, we offer education that will help our clients feel equipped with the financial knowledge and tools to improve their personal and financial circumstances.
Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones is a hospital based early intervention program that promotes initial parenting skills needed to prepare children for successful beginnings. The program was developed by two teachers who recognized a need to address the vast differences among students entering the Coweta County School System. Realizing that too many of the entering kindergartners lacked the basic skills needed for success in school, and also realizing that many of these students were born to teenage mothers, Stepping Stones was formed.
SWAY
Our mission is to get more kids on bikes in Georgia while building strong minds and bodies through the sport of mountain biking.
St. Vincent de Paul Georgia
With a mission to provide help and hope to neighbors in need, St. Vincent de Paul Georgia has been serving individuals, families and communities across Georgia since 1903, stabilizing those in crisis and creating paths to self-sufficiency.
The I-58 Mission is designed to care for those in Coweta, Fayette, Spalding, and Meriwether County by meeting physical needs and showing the love of Christ by offering a food pantry, clothes closet, household goods and baby items.
Yeager Road Community Resource Center
We are a small church with a large heart of compassion for our community. We provide various resources and assistance in the form of educational and skills training programs, health aid, food and meal ministry, financial empowerment programs, entrepreneurship training, children and youth mentoring, after-school homework assistance, community conflict resolution training and mediation services, notary public, quit smoking programs, health fairs, job fairs, community weight loss and exercise programs, legal aid clinic, estate planning seminars, disaster and relief services, etc.