Investing in Financial Empowerment and Workforce Development
The Liz Blake Giving Fund believes that all parents and children deserve family well-being, stability, access to high-quality education and childcare, and ultimately, self-sufficiency.
A 2018 Bloomberg report ranked Atlanta as the worst city in the United States for economic mobility. There’s an opportunity to reverse this data point, and we believe it starts with the incredible mothers in our communities.
In order to disrupt the cycles of economic immobility and address barriers to accessing high-quality education, childcare, and job opportunities, the Liz Blake Giving Fund focuses investments on expanding access to workforce development programs, as well as innovative approaches to grow financial security for caregivers in Georgia, through:
The alignment of affordable early childhood education with career development resources.
Training and apprenticeships for living-wage work.
Support for pregnant and parenting students achieving their GED or post-secondary education.
The Liz Blake Giving Fund exists today to reduce the barriers and ultimately provide greater access to inter-generational cycles of opportunity.
We equip and activate the potential of Atlanta’s mothers and their children by investing in two-generation (2Gen) approaches to financial empowerment—supporting mothers on their journey to be healthy, self-sufficient economic providers and caregivers for their children.
Why 2Gen Investments Matter
Funded Projects
The Liz Blake Giving Fund looks to our partners as experts and innovators in their fields. Our support is intended to advance emerging leaders and their agendas for impactful and sustaining change, as demonstrated in our funded projects.
The need is great. We support community-informed initiatives across Atlanta, across Georgia and even the U.S. that can be scaled and have the potential to inform national best-practices. When we can demonstrate success in the scalability of grants, our results give way to replicability, ultimately expanding access to inter-generational cycles of opportunity for those in the margins.
