Our Grants – The Community Corps

June 2024: Third round, $107k+!

In our third round of grants, The Community Corps is delighted to support these fourteen inspiring organizations. Please check them out below (click to visit!). As always, please also share on Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn, and feel free to download and share the official press release if you’re feeling old-school.

SouthEast Community Cultural Center
Art-based language and literacy programs
Atlanta Rwandan Community
Workshops on early-warning indicators of genocide
Blessing Bags of Warmth
Hand Up emergency assistance program
The Bakery
Expanded art programs for children
Brave Trails
Family camp experience for LGBTQ+ families
Decatur Education Foundation
Subsidizing the Close Up trip for high school students
GA Chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers
Wellness seminars for zoo staff
JaredLance
Participation in the 2024 Mr. Gay America competition
Lake Claire Community Land Trust
Educating visitors about the trust and how to start one of their own
MAAC
LEADS and LEADS Beyond projects for teens in the foster system
Mar’s Mission
Social media strategy for animal welfare
Out Front Theatre
Development of a brand-new LGBTQ+-focused musical
SOJOURN
Health workshops for the southern Jewish LGBTQ+ community
Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
Free and low-cost performing arts classes
ROUND TWO! JANUARY 2024 GRANT AWARDS!

This exciting second round of grants will support ten excellent Atlanta-area projects with funding over $100,000!

Please check out the organizations below (click the logo to visit the organization’s website). Please also consider sharing the announcements on Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn, by distributing the official press release, and by spreading the word about The Community Corps to relevant projects in your life!

The Bakery
Art education & community access
drawchange
Art-based therapy for kids
Karibu Community Legacy
Addressing gender-based violence among African immigrants
Out Front Theatre
LGBTQ+ diversity in the theater arts
Peace Preparatory Academy
Field trips for underserved students in West Atlanta
Raksha, Inc.
Therapeutic choices for South Asian kids who survive violence
Regina’s Safe Alliance
Services & education for survivors of crime and violence
Camisha Butler
Fiber artist Camisha Butler’s anthropological research project RETURN/SHARE
Tahirih Justice Center
Training service providers to develop culturally sensitive processes for immigrant survivors of gender-based violence
FINALLY! 2023 GRANT AWARDS!

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we’ve selected six amazing organizations from this round of applications, for grants totaling $51,000! You can help by sharing the announcements on Facebook or LinkedIn, by distributing the official press release, and by clicking on the images to check out the organizations directly!

ACCENT Higher Learning
ACCENT Education trips to Savannah
Sci4GA
Community Science Ambassadors
drawchange
Art therapy-based programs for children experiencing homelessness
Los Niños Primero
Saturday school & arts enrichment program
Out Front Theatre
Young adult & student education
The Teacher’s Closet
Sourcing wardrobe accessories for educators
MD Anderson 2020

Sally (left) and Lety with Simba the Wonder Dog

Dr. Frumovitz and Simba hard at work

Leticia Gustin became a part of the Horizons School family when her daughter, Heather, became a student in 1990. Lety taught Spanish at Horizons on top of her career as a pediatric R.N. and then, later, full-time. In 2012, Lety was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cervical cancer. Over the next seven years, Lety and her wife Sally Turnage Gustin found both medical care and loving support at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Lety passed away in January 2020.

In August of 2020, The Community Corps made its first grant in the amount of $25,000 to MD Anderson in Lety’s memory. At Sally’s request, it was also dedicated to the efforts of Dr. Michael Frumovitz, who passed away in 2024.

Learn more about Horizons School, and about Lety and Sally’s experiences there.

June 2024: Third round, $107k+!

ROUND TWO! JANUARY 2024 GRANT AWARDS!

FINALLY! 2023 GRANT AWARDS!

MD Anderson 2020