These organizations look to either advocate for a group or bring about awareness to a cause through their service opportunities. Check out all of their amazing missions below and how you can make an impact not only in the Athens but Global community!

Asha for Education
Asha Athens works towards promoting the education of underprivileged children in India by providing financial assistance and support to the NGOs focused on education projects. Volunteers of Asha work closely with the project partners in India, while locally organizing fundraisers and community awareness events.

Cure
Cure is an international medical non-profit dedicated to the physical and spiritual healing of people around the world with curable diseases that cannot afford the surgeries. Our mission is to spread awareness about CURE and raise money to help provide these surgeries.

Extra Special People 
ESP is an organization that creates opportunities for people with disabilities and their families to engage, connect, and thrive through summer camps, after school programs, family counseling, and more.

Special Olympics 
Work with special needs children and adults throughout this area in every way that we can; this includes fundraising, planning fun outings, providing assistance in their P.E. classes, and helping out during their games. More importantly, we develop personal relationships with our athletes and give them thanks for the rewarding experiences and lessons they are providing for us.

UGA Miracle 
Miracle is the largest student-run campus philanthropy that raises money for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. These funds help the Rehabilitation and Aflac Center departments at Children’s Healthcare.

Friends of Gospel Pilgrim
Friends of Gospel is a student service organization dedicated to the preservation and maintenance of Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery, a historic African American Cemetery in Athens. This organization strives to provide for the restoration of Gospel Pilgrim and by doing so bring together the UGA and Athens community in preservation of our shared past. 

​In the Fight​
In The Fight is a student organization that has a passion for building a community of individuals both on and off campus that are well-educated and passionate about the issue of human trafficking. Our heart is to educate ourselves and others on every angle and aspect of the issue of human trafficking so that we can be better equipped to have a hand in the fight against it.

Lilly Branch Audubon Society 
LBAS is an Audubon Student Conservation Chapter dedicated to the conservation of birds and the habitats that support birds and other wildlife. We are also a service organization, participating in a group service project every year that ranges from pollinator garden maintenance to bird collision surveys.

Period at UGA
PERIOD @ University of Georgia is part of a nationwide movement to end period poverty and period stigma. As a chapter of the national PERIOD network, we work with local homeless shelters and community centers to provide menstrual products and health education to those in need across Athens-Clarke County.

Refugee Outreach at UGA
Refugee Outreach looks to educate and raise awareness of the refugee story by inviting speakers, interactive programs, and hosting forums and be a resource for Athens refugee families once their resettlement NGO is no longer able to support them.

Uplifting Parents at UGA
Uplifting Parents looks to create an equitable learning environment that sustains the health and success of student-parents and their children. Various ways of service include organizing events for our families to meet up and do fun activities, organizing volunteer babysitting events for our general members to help out our parents (i.e. Parents' Night Out), and finally sharing valuable university resources with parents whenever they may need them.