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.
The Partnership for Southern Equity and the Annie E. Casey Foundation are seeking applicants for Resident Leaders for Equity, a program that equips individuals living in Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Unit-V with tools and resources to create positive community change.
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions recently awarded four communities nearly $2.4 million in combined grants to promote economic mobility among low-wage workers and address gaps in local workforce systems. Organizations in Atlanta and Baltimore were named as recipients, as well as collaboratives in Cleveland and Syracuse.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is seeking proposals — now through March 15, 2019 — for community-led workforce efforts to help residents in Southwest Atlanta develop their skills and secure well-paying jobs that align with their interests.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation today announced that Thomasina “Tomi” Hiers, a veteran government, nonprofit and philanthropic leader, has been named vice president of its Center for Civic Sites and Community Change.
With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a nonprofit in Georgia has helped secure key legislative changes that will strengthen the state’s workforce and create more equitable opportunities for children and families.
