Partner with Us
The Liz Blake Giving Fund will consider opportunities to partner with organizations serving women and children in Metro Atlanta through fellowships, project grants or capacity-building grants.
Leveraging a two-generation investment model, the Liz Blake Giving Fund partners with fellow donors, nonprofits, and researchers to collectively address key points of vulnerability that perpetuate economic immobility for Atlanta’s children and their families. Grants demonstrating success offer opportunities for scale and replication, ultimately influencing systems’ change and creating greater access to inter-generational cycles of opportunity for those in the margins.
To ultimately support mothers and children across Georgia, the Liz Blake Giving Fund offers grant funding, social capital and connections, prioritizing projects that:
Offer an opportunity to inform future, scalable approaches to the problem they are addressing.
Involve true collaboration among nonprofit entities.
Incorporate trauma-informed best practices.
Demonstrate an interest in multi-year partnership and collaboration with the Liz Blake Giving Fund and its grantees.
Nonprofits may be considered for partnership if they work in one of three areas:
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
The promotion of language nutrition—early language exposure critical to brain development.
Models of affordable early learning childcare that leverage brain science.
Trauma-informed training for educators and ECE providers.
Financial Empowerment and Workforce Development
The alignment of affordable ECE with resources for parents as providers.
Training and apprenticeships for living-wage work.
Support for pregnant and parenting students achieving their GED or post-secondary education.
Mental and Behavioral Health for Mothers and Children
Healthy social-emotional development in children and infants and toddlers, also known as infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH).
Prenatal care to combat preterm births, low birthweight babies and high maternal death rates in Georgia.
Strategies that educate and empower women to prevent unplanned pregnancies and complete their education.
Successful Partnerships
Important details for applicants that help give way to successful partnerships.
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The Liz Blake Giving Fund funds projects that feature both the empowerment of women as successful mothers and providers for their families and as leaders in their communities and the healthy development of children from prenatal through elementary school.
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Projects with 2Gen approaches that track outcomes for both children and providers will be prioritized.
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The Liz Blake Giving Fund also looks for projects that:
Offer an opportunity to inform future, scalable approaches to the problem they are addressing.
Involve true collaboration among nonprofit entities.
Incorporate trauma-informed best practices.
Demonstrate an interest in multi-year partnership and collaboration between the Liz Blake Giving Fund and its grantees.
Build the capacity of nonprofits to leverage 2Gen best practices, trauma-informed best practices, and early language literacy and contingency best practices for caregivers.
Funded Projects
Spanning our core investment focus areas of early childhood development, maternal and child mental health and wellbeing, and financial empowerment, take a peek at some of our current and past funded projects.
