By Ebony Johnson, Director of Place-based Initiatives at United Way of Greater Atlanta When United Way of Greater Atlanta was asked to lead a COVID-19 testing (and now vaccine) strategy as part of a national effort, there was little known of how the community would respond. We certainly knew to do this work, we would […]

By Lauren Thomas Priest, MNM, program associate, prosperous people, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta As a part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) have been expanded to give more families access to higher tax credits. Economists estimate that these tax changes will reduce […]

By United Way of Greater Atlanta Jennifer Swain and the staff at youthSpark saw what could only be described as a “gap in the juvenile court system.” It needed to be addressed. “We have historically worked in the area of child sex trafficking since our beginning in 2000,” Swain, who is Executive Director of youthSpark, […]

Guest post by Erika Curtis, Communications Manager, Georgia Justice Project “You do the crime, you do the time” right? Sound reasonable? Let’s consider for a moment an individual who has been convicted and sentenced to incarceration for forgery – we’ll call her Jane. Jane is sentenced to 20 years, serve five. She spends the next five years incarcerated, […]

United Way’s Regional Commission on Homelessness helps people escape homelessness through outreach, housing, aftercare By Bradley Roberts, Content Manager, United Way of Greater Atlanta Markesha moved to Atlanta, escaping a Florida neighborhood that had become violent and unsafe for her two children. But finding an apartment became a challenge—and it wasn’t because of a previous […]

Guest post by Semira Ajani, program director at HABESHA, Inc. It was about 10 years ago when HABESHA, Inc. took on the role of providing workforce development programming. At this time, the organization experienced a growing demand from the community as well as partners to develop a green jobs training model and, as a result, HABESHA’s […]

40-plus projects, more than 1,000 volunteers work to bring exponential impact to community By Bradley Roberts, Content Manager at United Way of Greater Atlanta Mona Sabeti wanted to volunteer in Atlanta during Pride Month.  Sabeti’s new to Atlanta—she’s pre-COVID-19 pandemic “new,” but still, not too long before that. So, it hasn’t been the easiest time […]

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 […]