About the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Since 1951, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta has been connecting the passions of philanthropists with the purposes of nonprofits doing that work. With nearly 70 years serving the 23-county Atlanta region and a robust team of experts, the Community Foundation leads and inspires philanthropy to increase the vitality of our region and the well-being of all residents, empowering our donors to focus on the joy of giving.
The Community Foundation is a top-20 community foundation, among 750 nationally, with approximately $1.1 billion in current assets and is Georgia’s second largest foundation. Through its quality donor services and bold, innovative leadership on community issues, the Foundation received more than $144 million from donors in 2017 and distributed more than $100 million that same year to support nonprofits throughout the region and beyond.
In 2018 Charity Navigator named the Community Foundation a four-star rated nonprofit, its top distinction, putting the Foundation among the top 10 highest-rated community foundations.
For more information, visit: cfgreateratlanta.org or connect with the Foundation via Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
The Georgia Healthy Cities project is powered by the planners and researchers at Neighborhood Nexus. The Community Foundation serves as the fiscal agent for Neighborhood Nexus.
About Neighborhood Nexus
Neighborhood Nexus is the premier resource for community data in the state of Georgia. Neighborhood Nexus is a partnership between the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Atlanta Regional Commission, United Way of Greater Atlanta and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
Neighborhood Nexus is dedicated to improving policy at the local level by both improving access to high-quality data and presenting that data in a way is useful to a wide audience. By developing both broad and deep partnerships in the communities where we work, our group has been able to compile over six thousand data variables, which we convert from abstract numbers into meaningful information through proven data visualization techniques.
For more information, visit: neighborhoodnexus.org or call (470) 378-1605
Georgia Healthy Cities project partners
The following organizations joined the Community Foundation and Neighborhood Nexus to create a successful Georgia Healthy Cities project:
- Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI)
- Atlanta Regional Commission
- Chatham County Dept. of Public Health
- Clinical Research Pathways
- Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
- Georgia Family Connection Partnership
- Georgia Global Health Alliance
- Georgia Health Policy Center
- Global Health Action
- Mercy Medical
- United Way of Chattahoochee Valley
- United Way of Greater Atlanta
- United Way of Southwest Georgia
- Urban Health Initiative - Emory University
- West Central Health District of the Georgia Department of Public Health
Financial support generously provided by:
Project Team Leads
Bernita Smith
Principal Investigator
Neighborhood Nexus, Director
Bernita.Smith@gmail.com
Michelle Marcus Rushing
Policy Impact Specialist
Georgia Health Policy Center
MMarcus2@gsu.edu
Davina Law
Community Outreach Lead
Set The Atmosphere
DLaw@settheatmosphere.com
Layla Bellows
Data Analyst
Atlanta Regional Commission
LBellows@atlantaregional.org
Erik Woodworth
Data Scientist
Atlanta Regional Commission
EWoodworth@atlantaregional.org
This research is based upon work supported by the Urban Institute through funds provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We thank them for their support but acknowledge that the findings and conclusions presented in this report are those of the author(s) alone, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Urban Institute or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.