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Grant Focus Areas and Initiatives
Sharpening our focus...going deeper...asking questions
about how we can help create lasting change. That is the work we've
taken on, together with our community partners. To promote positive
change, we're identifying specific goals and outcomes for our work.
We want to learn from our investments, share what we have learned,
and inspire others to make similar commitments.
Fostering Opportunity
Through our focus on Fostering Opportunity, our
Foundation will support efforts to provide a fair chance for low-income
youth and their families, seeking to overcome barriers imposed by
race, gender or origin and the inequities imposed by poverty. Fostering
Opportunity includes two major initiatives: Better Beginnings and
Pathways to Success. Both focus on critical periods of development
in the lives of young people, seeking innovative ways to transform
the conditions that prevent them from realizing their full potential.
Enhancing Quality of Life
Young people, families and entire communities need
healthy, green, inspiring places to grow and develop. They also
need engaging and entertaining arts that educate, inspire and unify.
We're investing in our home town, Atlanta, through our focus on
Inspiring Spaces and The Art of Change — seeking ways to enliven
the heart of our city and enrich the lives of its people. We seek
partners with a passion for preserving parks and green space and
for bringing the new Symphony Center to fruition. Both are important,
as inclusive gathering places that improve the quality of life for
everyone.
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"If young people do not emerge from high school with the skills they need to succeed in getting at least some postsecondary education and training, their life chances just fall off a cliff."
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