Georgia Radio Reading Service
Partner Organizations
Atlanta Community Food Bank: ACFB supports a wide range of people in need, from children to the working poor. Food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters and senior centers are among the agencies that receive product from the Food Bank and provide food and other critical resources for low-income Georgians who suffer from hunger and food insecurity. The Food Bank also operates several community projects to aid our agencies in community building, technical assistance and advocacy efforts. www.acfb.org
Atlanta Prosperity Campaign: (APC) was created as an initiative of the Atlanta Community Food Bank to connect working families and individuals to money-saving programs and existing benefits which will help them build and save for a brighter financial future. www.atlantaprosperity.org
Auditory Verbal Center: The Auditory
Verbal Center in Atlanta is an exclusive provider of Auditory-Verbal
therapy, which teaches mild to profoundly deaf children how to hear and
speak without the use of sign-language or lip reading. They are also a
provider of a full range of audiology services for people of all ages.
Highly-trained specialists can offer service, consultation or referrals
on a vast variety of issues concerning auditory-verbal therapy, cochlear
implants, hearing aids and a host of other hearing impaired resources.
Auditory Verbal has spent over 30 years providing a family-centered and
holistic approach to supporting and improving the lives of the hearing
impaired. www.avchears.org
Center for Visually Impaired (CVI): The
Center for the Visually Impaired is Georgia's largest comprehensive,
fully accredited, private facility providing rehabilitation services for
individuals of all ages who are blind or visually impaired. Since 1962,
the Center has grown to serve as a model of innovative services for
people who have a wide range of vision impairments from low vision to
total blindness. The mission of the Center for the Visually Impaired is
to offer comprehensive services to promote independence with dignity and
the preservation of self worth for individuals of all ages who are blind
or visually impaired. www.cviatlanta.org
The Center for Financial Independence & Innovation, Inc.: CFII is
a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping individuals with
disabilities and their family members advance their financial
independence and security. We achieve this mission through strategic
partnerships and programs designed to improve the financial
self-sufficiency of Georgians with disabilities.
www.thecfii.org
disABILITYLINK: disABILITYLINK believes that people with
disabilities have the right to be independent, make decisions for
themselves, have access to their community, and to achieve goals in life
like any other individual. disABILITY LINK is committed to promoting the
rights of all people with disabilities.
www.disabilitylink.org
Disability Resource Group: DRG works to
bring about full inclusion of all Georgians with disabilities, in all
aspects of the community.
www.disabilityresourcegroup.org
Fulton County District Attorney’s Office:
The Community Prosecution Program is a grassroots community-centered
prosecution program of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office that
focuses on the individual needs of communities, coupled with law
enforcement efforts of the prosecutor’s office.
www.atlantada.org
Marriott Foundation Bridges from school to
work: Bridges develops and supports mutually beneficial job
placements to meet the workforce needs of local employers and the
vocational goals of young people. The Marriott Foundation for People
with Disabilities was established in 1989 by the family of J. Willard
and Alice S. Marriott to enhance employment opportunities for young
people with disabilities.
www.marriottfoundation.org
Queen of Hearts
Foundation: The mission of the Queen of Hearts Foundation®
is to empower women regarding their heart health through awareness,
education and information. Implementation of
these three principles will help women of all ages save their lives
through early awareness and detection, understanding their heart
history, impact of lifestyle choices and knowledge of overall heart
health.
www.QOHF.org
ThisAbled (a Disability
Owned and Operated Company): is built on the concept that in order for
people with disabilities to be free they have to be politically and
economically empowered. ThisAbled is an online entity with a simple goal
of helping people with disability.
www.ThisAbled.com
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