As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Jan. 11, 2019
A Boston-based national nonprofit – GreenLight Fund – is launching GreenLight Atlanta.
The innovative organization already has raised $5 million from more than 50 investors (a Who’s who list), but it has purposefully not yet identified how it will invest those funds.
I was up at 6:30 am on Saturday to watch the royal wedding. I had three text streams going with all of my girlfriends. We mainly wanted to see what everyone was wearing and to witness history. Needless to say, it was beautiful. However, about half way through the service, the Most Reverend Michael Curry […]
By Che Watkins, Center for Working Families Atlanta has an estimated 78,000 youth ages 16 – 24 that are not in school or employed for a variety of reasons. Research has continued to show the importance of engaging these young adults sooner rather than later to show them the various options available to them. Most are […]
By Che Watkins,President and CEO The Center for Working Families Sometimes as a non-profit leader, I feel like I am playing a constant game of whack-a-mole. My mind has to change courses all day long – from staff to funders to board to partners to community to participants to stakeholders. All of those matter a […]
The Annie E. Casey Foundation We have a saying around the Annie E. Casey Foundation that kids do well when their families do well, and families do well when they live in supportive neighborhoods with strong community-based services, good jobs, affordable homes and high-quality schools. But for too many children in Atlanta, particularly children of […]
