The Rockefeller Foundation announced that on Thursday, its president and a half dozen members of its senior leadership team met with three Georgia-based grantees, Our Village United, Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, and The Common Market Georgia, several small businesses that have benefitted from Foundation investment, local entrepreneurs, and members of the City of Atlanta’s Economic Development team. The meeting, which took place at The Gathering Spot on Northyards Blvd. in northwest Atlanta, marks the first time that The Rockefeller Foundation’s senior leaders have traveled together to one of the organization’s priority cities since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Our leadership team has come down to Atlanta, a community that illustrates many of the challenges vulnerable people face in 21st century America and the many opportunities The Foundation and our grantees can embrace to advance our nearly 110-year-old mission of promoting the well-being of humanity,” said Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. “Because Atlanta ranks number one for income inequality in America, we have prioritized investing in the city as part of our broader effort to advance equity and economic opportunity and expand access to healthier food in the United States.”
Making Opportunity Universal in Atlanta
The Rockefeller Foundation has invested more than $11.3 million in and around Metro Atlanta across its Equity & Economic Opportunity and Food programs since 2019. Recent collaborations include:
Selecting Atlanta as one of a dozen U.S. cities where the Foundation invested in organizations and projects focused on breaking down barriers to capital and credit access for Black and Latinx small businesses through the The Rockefeller Foundation Opportunity Collective (ROC).
Supporting the efforts of Our Village United (OVU), which works with Black entrepreneurs and organizational partners to create access to funding, technical assistance, and capacity…
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