PSE Releases $150,000 COVID-19 Fund to Support Frontline Organizations
Dear PSE Community, We would like to announce to our Equity Circles, partners, and civic village that we are releasing applications for the COVID-19 Rapid Response Relief Fund. The application deadline is June 8, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. EST. As a part of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund from the United Way of Greater…
Read MoreThe South Has Something to Say: COVID-19 and Our Chance for Transformation
Op-ed published in Nonprofit Quarterly on May 4, 2020, followed by a webinar on May 20, 2020, with Grantmakers for Southern Progress, Kendeda Fund, Amalgamated Bank, MacArthur Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Healthcare Georgia Foundation, and Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation While the country grapples with an uncertain future, given COVID-19 and its disproportionate impact on African Americans…
Read MoreIn Coronavirus Crisis, PSE and 574 Groups Urge Halt to Electricity, Water Shutoffs
WASHINGTON (MARCH 19, 2020) – More than 575 utility justice, labor, faith, consumer and environmental groups urged state governors, mayors and utility regulators today to put a moratorium on electricity and water-utility shutoffs in response to the coronavirus crisis and resulting job losses. Today’s letter also called for deeper policy changes that deploy distributed solar…
Read MoreHealth Equity: A Growing Imperative
Arlene Parker-Goldson, Just Health Director On January 30, 2020, the Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) convened the second meeting of the Just Health Circle (JHC) to connect, listen, learn, collaborate, practice as the framework for addressing health inequity in metropolitan Atlanta, the state of Georgia and the American South. JHC is a diverse group of…
Read MoreNathaniel Speaks @ …
See where our Founder and Chief Equity Officer Nathaniel Smith is speaking around the country
Read MorePartnership for Southern Equity Invests $70,000 in Six Atlanta Organizations
The Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) and its Just Growth Circle are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Just Growth Capacity Fund: South Fulton People-Centered Community Economic Development Collaborative Su-Kor Youth Program of Atlanta West Atlanta Watershed Alliance Sustainable Lakewood Proctor Creek Stewardship Council Mount Welcome Community Development Corporation After receiving a total…
Read More#MLK91
We need these words now more than ever. This is not a day off for us. Most of our staff are celebrating the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the community. Please join us at the following events: MLK Day 5K Drum Run When: Jan. 20, line up begins at 8:45 a.m. Where: Piedmont…
Read MoreThe Fight Continues…
It amazes me that the more things change the more things stay the same. Growing up in Atlanta, I remember many days where my parents had to choose between paying the electric bill or buying groceries for our family. Now, in 2019, many households throughout Georgia face the same dilemma. On Tuesday, December 17, the Georgia Public Service Commission…
Read More#FIGHTTHEHIKE
“I ask you to reject this increase because this would be a huge issue for a lot of the parents here in Atlanta. I ask you to think about the working poor, the disabled, the seniors, they have to choose between medicine, food or light bill. We cannot afford another hit. Please reconsider and vote…
Read MoreA statement we should not have to make…
It’s Tuesday in America. Toni’s gone and families are hurting in Ohio, Texas, California and New York. The families at the Partnership for Southern Equity stand with all who are missing someone today. We can only offer our sentiments and commitment to a better world where white supremacy and hatred are things of the past, and a world…
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