Georgia Advancing Communities Together Inc

Programs: Policyheld housing day at the capitol with an estimated 100 people in attendance representing nonprofit organizations and resident groupstogether with metro fair housing services and sopos (a disability rights coalition), prepared and submitted comments encouraging programmatic involvement of nonprofit organizations and minority businesses to dca on the consolidated annual performance and evaluation report (caper)advocated on capitol hill with georgias federal elected officials for funding for home, cdbg, and nhtfsubmitted comments to state housing finance agency on its plan for allocating funds made available from hud through the national housing trust fundcontracted with elizabeth appley, legislative consultant and lobbyist, to monitor housing legislation in the general assembly and produce legislative reports to keep members informedprovided staff support for an atlanta housing advocacy initiative, city for all, to promote development and preservation of affordable housing for families with low and moderate incomes worked with the city of atlanta on passage of inclusionary zoning ordinances covering two targeted areas undergoing gentrificationconducted research on possible revenue sources that local governments could use to capitalize regional housing trust fundscoordinated a group of 20 affordable housing stakeholders for a lunch talk by richard rothstein, author of the color of law, at gsu school of lawtraining and technical assistancewith grant from mary reynolds babcock, as part of the rural housing initiative implemented a peer technical assistance project for two nonprofit organizations for successful administration of a chip grant from dcasponsored a free webinar for housing counselors that atlanta legal aid society provided at no cost on land installment contractssponsored a free webinar for member organizations on board development conducted at no cost by georgia act board member betsy wallace (formerly with neighborhood reinvestment and principal of ewallace strategies)also with the grant from the babcock foundation, provided a consultant to work with a cdfi in southwest georgia to carry out strategic planning with a grant from woodforest national bank sponsored one-day training for housing counselors to prepare them to take the hud housing counseling certification examwith sponsorships from pnc, fifth third, neighborworks, south state bank, and atlanta neighborhood development partnership, held fall affordable housing conferencepartnering with enterprise community partners, neighborworks, and the georgia center for nonprofits on a capacity building initiative for nonprofit organizations in atlanta; the initiative involves both ta and training; with other funding georgia act will make the training available to organizations outside of metro atlantacommunications/technologydistributed an e-newsletter periodically containing information on resources, federal legislation, and future events (conferences, training opportunities, etc. )continuously updated the georgia act web site, www. Georgiaact. Orgpromoted georgia act events on the facebook pagecollaborations and partnershipsstaff serve on ugas housing and demographics research advisory boardmember of transformation alliance, a coalition of organizations interested in linking communities around transit to promote equitable transit-orient development (e-tod) in the atlanta regionmember of sopos (shut out, priced out, and segregated), a disability rights coalitioncollaborated with the georgia conference of black mayors to hold two two regional forums on housing one in washington and one in elbertonpartnered with metro fair housing services on down payment assistance programadministration and finance2016 audit completed reviewed monthly financial statementsheld three regional meetings in different areas of the state (albany, washington, and elberton) to bring together stakeholders around housing and community developmentnew members included one housing authority and two local governments (one rural and one urban)hired new president/ceo to start january 2, 2018resource developmentreceived operating support grants from neighborworks america, ford foundation, and mary reynolds babcock foundation received project-specific grants from the annie e. Casey foundation, enterprise community partners, the transformation alliance, woodforest national bank, and the fifth third foundationrenewed contract with atlanta neighborhood-based fund to handle grants administration on a fee basis