Announcements

The doors of the On the Rise Financial Center are officially open! On Thursday, April 20, the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation), in partnership with Equifax, welcomed the community into its new facility, located at 810 Joseph E Boone Blvd., NW. The Center will serve as a resource for Westside individuals, families, and small […]

This month, our featured community member is Dr. Dexter L. Johnson, pastor of Higher Ground Empowerment Center and president of the Vine City Neighborhood Association. Venture below to hear him share his Westside story in this month’s @WestsideOnTheRise featured profile*, where he talks about the history of Higher Ground Church and the work he’s doing to […]

The Westside Future Fund (WFF) is proud to announce the launch of its Anti-Displacement Tax Fund program, an initiative that will pay qualifying homeowners’ property tax increases in the English Avenue, Vine City, Ashview Heights and Atlanta University Center communities. The new program is designed to help ensure that current homeowners are not displaced due to rising property […]

On Friday, March 31, members of the Historic Westside community celebrated the much-anticipated opening of the Mattie Freeland Community House in English Avenue. The new community center honors the legacy of Ms. Mattie Freeland, a longtime English Avenue resident and member of the neighborhood’s New Life Covenant Church, who for decades offered her home as […]

At our March 17 Transform Westside Summit, we were introduced to the first graduating class of the “HEALing the Westside” Community Health Workers program. Developed in partnership with the Healing Community Center, the program is part of the Year 1 Strategies for the Westside Health Collaborative, an initiative driven by the Arthur M. Blank Family […]

It was a millennial takeover at our March 17 Transform Westside Summit! Ten of the Westside’s best and brightest were the featured guests of our first-ever Community Youth Panel, hosted by Westside-based nonprofit Raising Expectations. Click here to read our interview with Raising Expectations’ co-founders, Maria Armstrong and Tangee Allen.  The 10 panelists, ranging in […]

As the old saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. No one knows that better than Raising Expectations (RE) co-founders Tangee Allen and Maria Armstrong. Their Westside-based nonprofit has helped “raise” more than 2,000 children in their more than two decades of service. The Raising Expectations story began when Maria and Tangee, then college […]

For 24 years – since January 22, 1993 to be exact – Zane Brown has been a proud resident of the Historic Westside. He’s also become a regular at the Westside Future Fund’s Transform Westside Summits. Hear from Zane on why the first and third Fridays of the month are “can’t-miss” events and what he […]

In 2016, Goodie Nation co-founder and executive director Joey Womack and his tribe of changemakers and entrepreneurs brought some of the city’s best and brightest tech socialpreneurs together to do what had never been done before: #HackGentrification. Inspired by Google’s X Moonshot Factory, Goodie Nation created Goodie Innovation – a six-month social impact incubator designed […]