Aid to Inmate Mothers, Inc.
Aid to Inmate Mothers supports children and families of incarcerated women by strengthening bonds between inmate mothers and their children. Programs include monthly visits by children, mothers recording stories for their children to listen to, parenting and life skill classes for mothers, supplies for special occasions, such as Christmas and birthdays, and services to assist mothers after incarceration.
Beacon Center
The Beacon Center, a community hub of Metropolitan United Methodist Church, provides essential services in Montgomery, including food distribution, healthcare, education, and workforce development. Our mission is to remove barriers, empowering families and individuals toward stability and success. Through holistic programs, we offer hope, opportunity, and second chances to those facing hardships, making a lasting impact on the community.
www.metromgm.org/the-beacon-center/
Capital Area Adult Literacy Council
The Capital Area Adult Literacy Council empowers individuals via one-on-one literacy assistance. Due to this gift of literacy, people are then able to get driver's licenses, help their children with homework, apply for jobs, seek further education, pay their own bills, and increase their sense of self-worth.
Child Protect
Child Protect exists for child victims to relay their experience once, with a trained forensic interviewer. The recorded interview is shared with a multidisciplinary team who investigates the claims to determine whether to pursue charges, lessening the negative impact on the victim and family. Counseling and other services are available in this same, non-threatening environment.
ClefWorks
ClefWorks engages students and neighbors with unique concerts in untraditional settings. Our combination of conversation, education and world class musicianship forges unforgettable connections to the music, the musicians, and the community. Your support directly funds musicians and reaches thousands of students each year with the power of music.
Communities of Transformation
Communities of Transformation assists students who are personally experiencing poverty and dream of a brighter future by training in five areas of personal development: financial, spiritual, relational, physical, and intellectual. This combination of information and supportive relationships equips them to move from just surviving to thriving.
www.communitiesoftransformation.org/
Dream Court, Inc.
Dream Court, Inc. provides an adaptive tennis program for children and adults with physical and intellectual disabilities. We offer Spring, Summer, and Fall practices, along with year-round wheelchair practices. We create opportunities for competition amongst our athletes, as well as provide a community for participants, volunteers, families, and supporters, fostering awareness, respect, and inclusion for individuals with special needs.
Easterseals Central Alabama
Easterseals Central Alabama provides life-enhancing programs and services to meet the individual needs of the children, teens, adults, and seniors we serve. We are here to empower our consumers to greater independence, and to change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day.
Fisher's Farm
We offer a one-year intensive residential program for men struggling with addiction to drugs and alcohol. Our structured environment promotes holistic growth using the word of God. After graduation, participants can enter phase two, where we assist with employment and provide accountability. We aim to help these men become God-honoring, productive citizens, fulfilling their roles as men, husbands, fathers, and brothers.
Friendship Mission, Inc
Friendship Mission is a set of homeless shelters and a public soup kitchen. FMI provides shelter, meals, other basic needs (i.e., hygiene items), connections to resources (childcare, food assistance; medical care; employment, Social Security benefits, etc.), and case management (guidance to navigate personal obstacles and creating a plan) to hungry and homeless people while they work toward independent living within their respective potential.
HandsOn River Region
HandsOn River Region's Christmas Clearinghouse Program was established in 1980 to eliminate duplication of services, ensuring that every family who truly needs help can experience the joy of Christmas. Before the program existed, some families might have received assistance from multiple organizations while others were left without support. HandsOn River Region’s Christmas Clearinghouse Program addresses this by serving as a central hub for agencies providing Christmas assistance, working closely with our partners to ensure that no family is overlooked.
Hope Inspired Ministries
We help individuals break the grip of poverty by offering a free job training program designed to equip individuals with essential skills, such as financial literacy, character building, personal documentation and identity support, spirituality, life coaching, and a support system. The training is designed to provide skills for finding and maintaining employment.
www.hopeinspiredministries.org
Many Colors Arts Collective
The Many Colors Arts Collective serves adults who need day support and have experienced considerable isolation most of their adult life. With a focus on a broad range of the arts (pottery, weaving, visual arts, and music), participants experience joyful community and engage in work that allows them to develop greater independence and sense of agency. They also have the opportunity to sell their artwork and keep 75% of the proceeds to foster financial independence.
Meals on Wheels Montgomery AL Metro Area
Meals on Wheels provides a caring community and promotes independent, dignified, and meaningful living for local homebound senior citizens. The program utilizes volunteer drivers to deliver a hot, nutritious meal, as well as a wellness check to 455 homebound Montgomery Area seniors every weekday.
Mid-Alabama Coalition for the Homeless
MACH secures HUD funding and provides support to organizations that assist people experiencing homelessness. MACH leads the planning and implementation of community-wide efforts to ending homelessness locally. Our goals are set in concert with comprehensive plans set by state and local governments and agencies that collaborate with us. MACH works with providers of housing, mainstream resources, social services, municipalities, law enforcement, school systems, etc.
Montgomery Humane Society
The Montgomery Humane Society prevents cruelty to animals by operating an animal shelter for homeless, abandoned, and unwanted animals by operating an adoption center for healthy animals, by investigating cruelty and abuse cases, and by educating the public in animal owner responsibility. We seek to reduce homeless pets in our city/county.
Montgomery Education Foundation
MEF was founded to provide pressure and support for access to high quality public education and successful outcomes for all children. We believe all children deserve a quality education. MGM Reads provides high quality reading material and resources to children, families, community programs, and targeted schools during the summer to help maintain school year gains and support increased reading proficiency.
Quiet Storm Outreach Group, Inc.
Quiet Storm Outreach Inc. is a community-focused organization dedicated to empowering individuals through support and resources. They aim to address social issues by providing educational programs, mentorship, and outreach services. Committed to fostering personal growth and resilience, Quiet Storm Outreach creates safe spaces for dialogue and healing, ultimately helping individuals overcome challenges and build stronger, more connected communities.
Reality and Truth Ministries
Reality & Truth Ministries began in Fall 2008 with the mission to serve and glorify God according to the work of Christ by promoting the One source of Truth amidst everyday realities through encouraging, teaching, loving and gifting others.
Rebuilding Together Central Alabama
Rebuilding Together Central Alabama provides home repairs to homeowners in Montgomery, Autauga, and Elmore Counties who are considered low income by HUD. We provide help for aging adults, people with disabilities, veterans and families with children. The work, done by contractors and volunteers, revitalizes communities and rebuilds lives.
Redemption Earned
Redemption Earned (RE) is an Alabama-based nonprofit organization with a mission to identify, assist, and represent individuals who have spent decades in prison, demonstrated they are transformed, and earned the right to parole or work release. We provide free legal services and re-entry planning to parole-eligible inmates over age 65, have serious medical conditions, have served 25 or more years on their sentences, and pose little risk to public safety.
That’s My Child
That’s My Child mentors youth through arts, education, and workforce development, giving them a fair shot at success. The program builds confidence, improves academic performance, and teaches leadership skills for success. Teen-to-Work prepares teens for the workforce while connecting them to potential employers.
Valiant Cross Academy
Valiant Cross Academy, a Christian all-boys school in downtown Montgomery is dedicated to providing every student with resources and 1:1 relationships for success. The academy actively seeks innovative approaches and educational models, offering diverse programs to equip students with the skills needed to thrive. Positioned across from Martin Luther King's church, Valiant Cross, rooted in deep historical significance, serves as a beacon of hope in a community facing significant challenges, combining a strong faith-based approach with practical workplace learning opportunities through partnerships and unique academies.
Vision of Grace Transition Home
Vision of Grace Transition Home provides shelter for homeless families with children in a private home for approximately 4 months. In addition, beginning in 2024 we place families in local hotels in emergencies for 1 night to 1 week while appropriated temporary housing funds last. Average costs per night are $129, with 1 week ranging from $384 - $423 depending upon the location.
www.visionofgracetransitionhome.org
Women in Training, Inc. (WIT)
Women in Training, Inc. is a youth empowerment organization that provides menstrual equity services to help girls become culturally competent and compassionate global leaders who care about themselves and the world around them.