The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation in Atlanta has announced six grants totaling more than $24 million.

The grants were awarded to six organizations working on the foundation’s three focus areas: Atlanta’s Westside, environment, and youth development. Recipients include Westside Future Fund, which received $10 million to support its Our Next Chapter campaign aimed at reaching its goal to establish 1,750 new units of affordable housing; Capital Good Fund, which received $1 million for the Georgia BRIGHT (Building Renewables, Investing for Green, Healthy, Thriving communities) pilot project; and Accelerate Montana, which received $400,000 to support the organization’s goal to better understand and serve young people and employers in rural and Indigenous communities.

“This collection of grants represents a cross-section of the foundation’s giving areas and supports meaningful steps forward in addressing housing affordability and financial inclusion for Westside residents, access to renewable energy for low- and moderate-income households and work-based learning opportunities for young people,” said Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation president Fay Twersky. “Together with our grantee partners in Georgia and Montana, we aim to both address immediate needs while taking a long-term view of what it takes to make a difference in the communities that we serve.”

For a complete list of recipients, see the Blank Family Foundation website.

In addition, the foundation awarded $1.5 million to help restore the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge in Atlanta, according to the Saporta Report. The project to restore the historic building, which once housed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the only office of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the nation’s first Black-owned radio station, is being coordinated by the Masons and the Trust for Public Land.

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