Atlanta, Georgia, is a Casey Foundation Civic Site, home to UPS and the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Casey’s long-term investment in Atlanta focuses on five neighborhoods where challenges include high rates of poverty, tough employment barriers and a home foreclosure crisis. This article shows how the Atlanta Civic Site instituted Casey's signature two-generation strategy to help parents and children break the cycle of poverty while introducing us to several families that have been helped.
Since 2005, the Atlanta Center for Working Families, supported by Casey, placed participants in 1,500 jobs and connected 6,052 residents with benefits adding $5,628,258 to their incomes. The Center for Working Families' free tax preparation program helped more than 1,000 people access the Earned Income Tax Credit and receive a total of $6,022,914.
