Our Work

Our Work

Since 1951 The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta has been connecting community members, nonprofits and other partners to strengthen the Atlanta region through philanthropy. There are more than 700 community foundations across the country each with one goal – to create a vital, philanthropic community within their geographic area. The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta does that right here in Atlanta within our 23-county region.

Today, we are one of the largest community foundations in the country working with more than 650 individual funds and several supporting organizations ranging in value from $50,000 to $190 million. Together with our donors, we average more than $75 million in grants annually to an estimated 2,000 nonprofit organizations locally, nationally and internationally.

As a community foundation, we focus on four key goals:

Engage our community
Strengthen our region’s nonprofits
Advance public will
Practice organizational excellence

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Building Our Communities through Philanthropy

While many in the region know The Community Foundation for our grantmaking programs, we play a wide variety of roles in creating philanthropic solutions to our communities’ most pressing problems. These roles are as varied as the challenges our Atlanta region faces, but they each start with the premise that communities are built, improved and strengthened by the passion, ideas and resources of its people.

Now available, "Building Our Communities Through Philanthropy" highlights our community leadership work and our various roles in the 23-county region. Click here to access.

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