EXPLORE THE GRO FUND STORIES

The Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund builds bold, evidence-based and community-driven solutions to address poverty and to narrow the racial wealth gap.

Jackie Toomer

Jackie Toomer

"I was self employed. But I lost my home to a predatory lender. So I lost my business. And I went down to zero."

Chi T. Mathias

"I feel like because I got the help that I needed as a young mom in her 20s, what more can I do to make sure that I pay that forward? So not only my children, my grandchildren, but all the other mothers that are out there get that same support."

Eshe Shukura

"I loved guaranteed income. But I often was like, I don't want it to feel like dignified welfare, I think it is more radical to think about it as something that people are owed, that people you know, deserve. That it should have been happening for years."

"I was self employed. But I lost my home to a predatory lender. So I lost my business. And I went down…

Eshe Shukura

"I loved guaranteed income. But I often was like, I don't want it to feel like dignified welfare, I think it is…

Charlesetta Lee

"Being raised in the welfare system is generational. It's almost like a generational curse. Because it's a hamster wheel. You're trying to…

Wula Dawson

"That very false narrative of Black folks having mink coats and sitting on welfare rolls, I mean, it's so irrational, because there's…

Chi T. Mathias

"I feel like because I got the help that I needed as a young mom in her 20s, what more can I…