Guest post by Sonjui Kumar, Board Chair of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta and one of the Founding partners of Kumar, Prabhu, Patel and Banerjee, LLC and Aparna Bhattacharyya, Executive Director of Raksha, Inc.  At 8 a.m. on the morning after the Atlanta Spa shootings on March 16, the Asian American community of metro Atlanta […]

United Way, OUT Georgia Business Alliance work to make ‘measurable, lasting impact’ for LGBTQ+ communities across Greater Atlanta By Bradley Roberts, United Way of Greater Atlanta Youth identifying as LGBTQ+ are at a much greater risk of becoming homeless.  Aaron Rice read this in a report from Covenant House released by Chapin Hall of the […]

By Barrett Krise, senior philanthropic officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta You don’t have to look very far right now to see the division that exists between us. There is a literal division: meetings and gatherings via Zoom and FaceTime rather than in person or in community. There is ideological division between political parties and cultural […]

By Katrina DeBerry, program officer, thriving communities, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta As Americans, we believe in the ideals of fairness and equality for our families and ourselves. Unfortunately, the struggle has always been about whether we feel those same ideals apply to our neighbors. We wrestle between, ‘I should have the right to live […]

By Bradley Roberts, Content Manager, United Way of Greater Atlanta Jerry Jenkins shifts her weight in a folding metal chair and starts to get comfortable as she waits to hear her name called. She peers out over the top of a blue facemask and holds the content of a manila file folder securely in her […]

Guest post by Gilda (Gigi) Pedraza, executive director, Latino Community Fund (LCF Georgia)  Ana took a deep breath, summoned her courage and asked, “My daughter had kidney surgery a few years ago – where can she get the COVID-19 vaccine?” While the ask was simple, what she really was asking, was for a place that […]

By Bradley Roberts, Content Manager, United Way of Greater Atlanta Note: Photos used in this story were taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic Marie Wood grew up volunteering with her family at local community food banks, for activities with her church youth group and for other nonprofits spread across the Greater Atlanta area. Volunteering was […]

By Felix Rodriguez, program associate, strong families, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta 2020 was an incredibly hard year for a number of very obvious and very difficult reasons, and there were times when it seemed hard to find a glimmer of hope. Through these difficult times though, people have stepped up to support one another, […]

By Erin Dreiling, marketing and communications manager, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Marilynn Winn thinks big. When she created a nonprofit organization in 2012, she knew the name had to have scale and Women on the Rise was born. Winn has devoted herself to ensuring that formerly incarcerated women of color have a voice. In […]

By Bradley Roberts, Content Manager at United Way of Greater Atlanta Rev. Bronson Woods was planning to send 35 people to Ethiopia on behalf of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on March 1, 2020. That date sticks out to him for obvious reasons. During that trip, the team was honored at the Royal Palace by the first […]