Also, a new At-Promise Center is underway.
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COVID Response Fund awards another $6.5 million to Atlanta nonprofits
The United Way of Greater Atlanta and the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta have awarded another $6.5 million in grants to 214 organizations in response to the region’s increasing needs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Center for Civic Innovation analyzes local COVID relief funding for philanthropies
A new report on equity in Atlanta’s philanthropic community provides both a snapshot of which agencies received COVID relief funding, and a conversation with Black women who lead organizations that, as a group, the study showed as receiving 18% of the $18 million in local COVID grant funds.
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Reporter’s Notebook: COVID-19 coming off a peak, but wariness persists
So much for the usual Labor Day weekend street events.
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Reporter’s Notebook: School mask mandates, funding, flying and voting
Schools, flying and trying to float small businesses in a pandemic.
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A United Way Forward
By Milton J. Little, Jr., CEO & President of United Way of Greater Atlanta I know I am not alone in finding myself deeply saddened by the senseless and unjust deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery – individuals who look like me, my sons and my grandchildren. Their deaths have reminded us […]
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Community Partners Collaborate to Help Homeless Students in Fulton
By Bradley Roberts, Content Manager at United Way of Greater Atlanta Think of a child in the Fulton County School System. He’s in fourth grade, in a few years, he’ll be in middle school and before you know it, he’ll be walking across the stage with diploma in hand. This little boy’s life hasn’t always […]
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Recovery Fund announces another $5.3 million in grants to 245 metro Atlanta nonprofits
In its sixth round of grants to nonprofits in the Atlanta region announced Friday morning, the Greater Atlanta COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund is distributing a total of $5.3 million in grants to a record number of 245 organizations.
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Community Foundation, United Way announce fifth round of grants
Another13 nonprofits were given a total of $1.46 million from the Greater Atlanta COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund on Tuesday.
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Grady offers patients pharmacy service in time of crisis
United Way of Greater Atlanta, Community Foundation helps secure grant to serve uninsured and underinsured populations By Bradley Roberts The city of Atlanta doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The same problems in the largest cities around the world exist in our own backyard. Every single one of us is feeling the stress of a pandemic […]
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Community Foundation, United Way announce latest round of COVID-19 grants
The fourth round of grants from Greater Atlanta COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund was announced Tuesday – a total of nearly $1.8 million that will be distributed to 18 organizations for emergency response.
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Coronavirus pandemic spurring collaboration among Atlanta’s nonprofits
The COVID-19 crisis has had at least one positive impact in Atlanta – an unprecedented level of cooperation among local nonprofits.
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Help Serve Those Who Serve Us
By Bradley Roberts, Content Manager at United Way of Greater Atlanta Requests for help have flooded into Giving Kitchen — a nonprofit agency that provides emergency assistance to food service workers across Georgia — led by executive director Bryan Schroeder. In the first three days of the COVID-19 crisis, Giving Kitchen received more requests for […]
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Talents should be equal to opportunity
United Way workforce initiative aims to advance economic mobility, promote competitive economy By John Helton, executive director of Atlanta CareerRise It’s not easy to climb the ladder to economic prosperity in Greater Atlanta. But it doesn’t have to be that way. All people need is an opportunity. In recent years, Atlanta has seen significant job […]
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Are you ready to go Over The Edge?
By Bradley Roberts, Content Manager Try to picture this for a second. You’re peering out over an 18-story building — your heart rate increases and the blood rushes to your face as you’re faced with the reality of what sits below you. You’re strapped into a harness; the belay device is secured with a carabiner […]
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Be ‘thoughtful’ about how and who you give to
Kim Greene speaks candidly about her passion for United Way. She says if it hadn’t been for the nation’s biggest supporter of local communities, her career wouldn’t be the same. Greene is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Southern Company Gas, the leading natural gas company in the industry with more than 4.2 […]
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United Way’s College Bound Program Assists Students, Parents Apply for Student Aid
United Way of Greater Atlanta has launched a new program aimed at helping students in select high schools apply for college funding by completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid [FAFSA] form. United Way hosted a pilot event for the program, which is sponsored by Delta Air Lines, last spring at Tri-Cities High School […]
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See what kids can become if they are not hungry
The challenge was simple and straightforward: Create a video that tells the all too familiar story of more than 350,000 children across Greater Atlanta. These kids are hungry during the summer because they don’t have access to school lunches — that one daily meal they’ve become reliant on during the other 10 months of the […]
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United Way of Greater Atlanta’s CoLabs promotes cross-sector collaboration
Recently, Ray Allen, 10x NBA All-Star and NBA Champion, appeared on ESPN’s “First Take” to explain his falling out with fellow Boston Celtics stars, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. In a sobering moment, Allen explained his displeasure with the “the Big 3” mentality he formed while playing with his two co-stars during the late 2000’s. […]
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Reducing recidivism through intervention
Dudley Arnold found himself standing in front of a parole board after more than half of his life spent in a jail cell. The Athens native had a “normal childhood,” but he said he always “wanted to grow up too fast.” For this reason, he says he ran into trouble with police and served his […]
