Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta
A secular, pluralistic nonprofit community center founded in 1910 offering fitness, aquatics, preschools, camps, arts, and special needs programs across metro Atlanta.
The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA) is a secular, pluralistic nonprofit community center founded in 1910. It serves as a central hub for the Atlanta community, offering fitness, education, camping, arts, cultural, and social programs to people of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities, without regard to age, interest, ability, race, or religion. The organisation reports that it reaches more than 60,000 people annually and is among the largest and most comprehensive community centres in the Southeastern United States.
Its operations span several distinct service areas. These include fitness and wellness facilities, dedicated pickleball complexes, and aquatic centres with indoor and outdoor pools; early childhood education through preschools at three locations in Dunwoody, East Cobb, and Sandy Springs; youth programming through the overnight summer camp Camp Barney Medintz, MJCCA Day Camps, and organised sports leagues; arts and cultural programming, including the annual Book Festival and Jerry's Habima Theatre; Jewish living and learning programmes; and services for individuals with special needs.
The organisation's work is distributed across the Atlanta metro area and the wider Southeast, with named sites in Dunwoody, East Cobb, and Sandy Springs, Georgia. Industry areas of activity include nonprofit and community services, fitness and wellness, aquatics and recreation, early childhood education, youth camps, arts and culture, Jewish communal services, and special needs services.
MJCCA describes its culture around inclusion and community connection: it is explicitly secular and pluralistic, welcomes participants of all backgrounds and abilities, and is committed to fostering meaningful connections within the Atlanta community.