Business Owners of Color in Atlanta Learn New Skills Through Accelerator Program
Invest Atlanta recently announced the graduation of 21 business owners of color from an accelerator program that has helped position them for future success.
Invest Atlanta recently announced the graduation of 21 business owners of color from an accelerator program that has helped position them for future success.
An innovative door-to-door community canvassing pilot in Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Unit V (NPU-V) is harnessing the power of face-to-face contact to connect residents with employment opportunities. Learn more about local workforce-training programs.
A new resource, funded in part by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, helps tenants in Fulton County, Georgia, understand the eviction process and their options within it.
With more than 85% of phase-one construction complete, Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Yards is on track for an early 2020 opening. Here’s a quick look at the progress made since the groundbreaking in 2018.
This blog post checks in on the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Southern Partnership to Reduce Debt, a multiyear, multistate effort that is entering its third year and aims to ease the debt burdens of families in the South.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has awarded several nonprofits $350,000 in combined grants to help residents in Southwest Atlanta strengthen their employment skills and find family-sustaining jobs that align with their career goals and interests.
Changing the Odds: Progress and Promise in Atlanta highlights innovative policies and approaches community leaders are using to ensure all residents can access the opportunities necessary for them to fully contribute to, and benefit from, the city’s growing economy.
The Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative (AWBI) has received a $1 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. This investment — coupled with support from Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Kendeda Fund — will advance the initiative’s efforts to bolster African-American entrepreneurship in Atlanta while also closing the city’s racial wealth gap.
Community members in Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Unit V are calling for funds to invest in curbing gun violence in the community through the implementation of Cure Violence, a public-health approach to address shootings.
In this blog post, Charles Rutheiser, a senior associate in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Center for Civic Sites and Community Change, talks Opportunity Zones. He reviews what these areas are, when they were established and how they could evolve with the help of a federal tax incentive program of the same name.
