By Guest Editors representing Latinos for Democracy It has been a historic election with more than 145 million voters casting their ballots. Among them, millions of Hispanic/Latinos/Latinx(*) voters turned out to say, “Presente, Estamos Aquí.” ...
By Diaka Burke, marketing and events associate, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta On October 29, the Association for Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Greater Atlanta Chapter executed their annual event: National Philanthropy Day, a celebration of greater ...
By Nikonie Brown, marketing administrative assistant, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The shift to virtual school because of COVID-19 has caused a myriad of accessibility issues for students and their families. Schools are more than ...
By Errika Moore, senior program officer, prosperous people, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta For the past few months the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta has worked directly with multiple school districts to understand the changing ...
By Erin Drury Boorn, senior philanthropic officer Many DeKalb County residents are about to get a wonderful surprise in the mail – the elimination of their medical debt. With a $100,000 grant to RIP Medical ...
By guest editor, Brittany Collins, Director of PAACT: Promising All Atlanta Children Thrive Parenting young children has always been stressful, but parenting in a pandemic? It’s brought a whole new level of anxiety to families ...
By Erin Dreiling, marketing and communications manager, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta As the COVID-19 pandemic has caused dual economic and health crises, it has impacted one facet of well-being we don’t often talk about: ...
By Lauren Priest, program associate, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta As businesses and public places have begun to reopen, schools and students are still making very difficult decisions about what the fall will look like ...
Community Foundation has opened grant applications for next round of funding By Clare S. Richie, public policy specialist, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta In June, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced Vote Your Voice, ...
By Gigi Pedraza, guest editor, Executive Director Latino Community Fund (LCF Georgia) It was October 2019 and my friend Josephine and I were having a conversation at “La Choloteca” a pop up party organized by ...
By Jonny Newburgh, impact investment associate, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Small businesses are hurting. Black-owned businesses face added challenges. In good times, entrepreneurship is tough. The most recent Small Business Credit Survey, conducted by the ...
Contributed by Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta Guest post by Calista Jahn, Voices for Georgia’s Children It’s been two months since Census Day, and to date 56.8% of Georgia’s households have completed their form, lagging ...
By Alicia Philipp, president, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Edgar Degas said “art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” As I read through the list of grants announced last week ...
By Mindy Kao, program associate for equity, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Early last month, over the span of five days, the Greater Atlanta COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund received over 650 grant applications from ...
By Courtney Carmichael, Community Fellow With the rapid spread of the coronavirus over the past few weeks, acts of xenophobia and racism aimed towards Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans have also been on the ...
By Errika Moore, senior program officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has announced that distance learning will continue through the end of the academic year. Distance learning has become the new way ...
By Lita Pardi, interim vice president, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Over recent weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live, work and connect with each other. News changes daily, if not by ...
By Lita Pardi, interim vice president, community, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The announcement last Thursday afternoon that many of the region’s public school systems would be closed starting Monday, March 16 made residents of ...
By Alicia Philipp, president, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta People often ask me about the keys to a successful nonprofit organization, and one of those is having a strong board of directors to help guide ...
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