Category: Philanthropy

By Mark Crosswell, managing director, social impact strategy, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Since its launch in 2018, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta’s impact investment fund, the GoATL Fund (GoATL), has invested $6.25 million to advance impact in affordable housing, education and small business development. The fund’s latest investment closed recently, a $500,000 loan to […]

LIVE UNITED is United Way’s tag line. To me, Live United means to not only embrace individual differences, but also the community as a whole. This is particularly important when identifying and addressing the needs of the community, regardless of how those needs may directly impact you. To Live United means acknowledging that collective impact […]

By Erin Dreiling, marketing and communications manager, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Human beings are unique animals. A sense of love and belonging is integral to our well-being. Belonging even appears in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. No matter how different we are or how different our backgrounds, we all have a common need to belong […]

By Ryan Rodriguez, grants manager, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta With the new academic year in full swing, nearly 200 students from the Atlanta region have financial assistance from Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta scholarships. Almost $600,000 in scholarships has been awarded for the 2019-2020 academic year.  A total of 584 students applied for scholarships […]

By Mindy Kao, program associate, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Do you remember how you spent your summers while you were in college? During my college summers, I found myself making extra cash slinging ice cream at the Bruster’s in my hometown of Canton, Georgia and later assembling banh mi sandwiches at We Suki Suki […]

By Elyse Hammett, vice president marketing and communications, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta My family has bought, renovated and sold a number of homes around Atlanta as our family grew and our needs changed over the years. Today, as empty nesters, we’re in the home-selling process again. The process of buying or selling a home […]

By Cheyenne Ransom Ransom, a rising junior at the University of Georgia, was the 2019 summer fellow at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The opportunity to work with the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta came to me completely by chance, but as I continue my work with this extraordinary organization, I cannot shake this […]

By Lauren Jeong, program associate, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The arts play a critical role in local economies, connecting people, amplifying child development, providing outlets for mental health and preserving culture. But unfortunately these opportunities are not spread evenly across our 23-county region. That is why the Foundation tracks arts participation and resident satisfaction […]

By Alyssa Cobbs If you’re looking for an addition to your summer reading list, here’s one to consider. In The Great Believers, author Rebecca Makkai transports the reader from Chicago in the 1980s, where a group of friends is experiencing illness and death as a result of the AIDS epidemic, to the current day in Paris, […]

By Lesley Grady, senior vice president, community, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Eating fruits and veggies goes hand-in-hand with health. When doctors at Atlanta’s Grady Health System saw low-income patients struggle with diabetes, hypertension and congestive heart failure, they sought an affordable nutrition solution. They found it in an innovative and low-tech program that prescribes […]

By Terry Mazany, senior vice president, philanthropy, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The Community Foundation recently hosted an event for our donors to hear an engaging conversation around philanthropy with Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All, The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Here’s more information about his book. In an era defined by the […]