The Elaine Clark Center

At the Elaine Clark Center, every day is an opportunity to celebrate growth, curiosity, and achievement for children and young adults with special needs. From classroom discoveries to summer camp adventures, your support helps make these moments possible and fills lives with joy, confidence, and hope.

Donating to the Elaine Clark Center shows you believe in the power of care, the strength of community, and the gift of consistency. Your donation isn’t just about giving—it’s about making a tangible difference that families, staff, and neighbors see and feel every day.  

Your donation enables us provide much needed services to a broad array of families.  About 50% of our families receive financial aid as a direct result of donations from people like you.  Services like nursing care and social work support are also supported through sponsorships and donations as well.  We have lower than average management costs leaving every dollar donated to go directly to supporting our families where they need it most.

One family, in particular, tells a story of how they used to travel from Sandy Springs to Duluth after work to get their special needs child the therapies and support the child needed to grow and thrive.  When they found the Elaine Clark Center provided a place for the child to receive these important therapies, their lives changed overnight.  They went from eating dinner out of a bag at 8p after a long day of running to appointments to having dinner as a family at home at 6p.  

This is just one story in the thousands of stories about how the Elaine Clark Center makes an impact in the lives of our families we've heard over the 55 years of our existence.

Help us build another 50 years of legacy and life changing stories by donating today.