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Platform addressing the housing crisis in Metro Atlanta by organizing communities in cities of all sizes across our region. Join this platform to send a message to leaders in cities and counties across the metro area that we expect real solutions -- and we’re watching them, to make sure they follow through.

Topic: Housing

Audience: Community

This toolkit can expand on the SNAP beneficiaries impact.

Topic: Health

Audience: Community

The Local Government ARPA Investment Tracker is an online resource that compiles information from local governments to offer a detailed picture of how large cities and counties (with populations of at least 250,000) are deploying the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund dollars.

Topic: Education, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Community, Nonprofits, Researchers

The Atlanta Community Engagement Playbook is designed for those with a shared interest in building successful engagement processes and reaching higher levels of community engagement. The Atlanta Community Engagement Playbook was created through a collaborative partnership with residents of Ashview Heights, Atlanta University Center Castleberry Hill, Booker T. Washington, English Avenue, Vine City; and City of Atlanta, Westside Future Fund, Atlanta Housing Authority: University Homes, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
To register to take the Atlanta Community Engagement Playbook Training at NPU University or contact SOSSI- info@iamsossi.org for more information.

Topic: Education, Environment, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Businesses, Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

A dashboard with an interactive map features AH's current vouchers, sites, and planned real estate development initiatives. The dashboard also captures Area Median Income (AMI) levels and assisted household types for all AH properties and voucher programs. AH’s planned real estate development sites (with projected unit counts), planned completion dates, acreage, and an indication of the tier of a given site are also featured.

Topic: Housing

Audience: Community, Government agencies

The campaign will support 1,000 African American-owned businesses in 1,000 days by helping 1,000 businesses hire their first employee and offer living wages to staff already employed. This is an ambitious goal that hinges on identifying Black-owned businesses in high-growth sectors that are in a position to hire an additional employee.

Topic: Household economics

Audience: Businesses, Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits

One tool helps track progress toward project goals and flag demographic and economic trends that may require policy intervention. Another tool measures progress toward the equity and inclusion vision in several key areas – housing affordability, economic development, transit access, inclusion, and quality of life.

Topic: Household economics, Housing

Audience: Businesses, Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

Accompanied by tailored communications tools and guidance, the index helps funders and nonprofit organizations understand which neighborhoods in the Atlanta region have the greatest need for investment in children and families.

Topic: Education, Household economics

Audience: Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

The GA DPH Vaccine Distribution Tracker informs about vaccines administered and vaccination rates by county for the state of Georgia. The data is available in time series to track progress and disaggregated by race and ethnicity for detailed analysis.

Topic: Health

Audience: Businesses, Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

The tool visualizes and communicates park and recreation existing conditions as well as inequities and disparities across Atlanta's neighborhoods, while also evaluating neighborhood environmental and social determinants of health for each of the census tracts in which the parks and recreation centers are located.

Topic: Education, Health

Audience: Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

In order to better meet the Agency’s responsibilities related to the protection of public health and the environment, EPA has developed a new environmental justice (EJ) mapping and screening tool called EJScreen. It is based on nationally consistent data and an approach that combines environmental and demographic indicators in maps and reports. EJScreen is a tool that provide a great deal of information, based on data sources and methods that have been fully described in great detail in the EJScreen Technical Documentation, which is the most comprehensive source of information about EJScreen.

Topic: Education, Environment, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Businesses, Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

In the United States, there is a simulator where you can choose from a range of policies and observe their impact on emissions. By setting a carbon tax, planting forests, or introducing electric cars, among other options, you can see how these measures contribute to achieving the US 2025 emission target on a chart. This interactive tool allows for a better understanding of the effects of various policies on emissions reduction.

Topic: Environment

Audience: Government agencies, Nonprofits

Neighborhood Nexus’s Equity-Driven Philanthropy tool is helping foundations assess grant applications against the relevant maps to estimate or rank proposals’ alignment to community needs. This tool explores four areas, combining several key indicators at the census-tract level into an easy-to-understand index for each issue—housing, early education, and mental health.

Topic: Education, Health, Housing

Audience: Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

This tool offers a database of eviction filings with the purpose of informing and improving the ability of Metro Atlanta policymakers, Non-government Organizations, service providers, tenant organizers, and government entities to understand and respond to eviction-related housing instability, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Topic: Housing

Audience: Nonprofits, Researchers

This document embodies the work of GMA’s 26-member Equity and Inclusion Commission. It is a guidebook to support city leaders eradicate systemic inequities where they exist in their communities. The recommendations are grouped according to topic area to help in viewing your city’s policies and services through the lens of equity, inclusion, and diversity.

Topic: Education, Environment, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Government agencies

Provides data and insights on health disparities and social determinants of health in the United States.

Topic: Health

Audience: Government agencies, Nonprofits

The purpose of the tool is to provide easy access to our region's most critical education indicators. The dashboard allows users to analyze data for eight districts in metro Atlanta: Atlanta Public Schools, City Schools of Decatur, Clayton County Public Schools, Cobb County School District, DeKalb County School District, Fulton County School District, Gwinnett County Public Schools, and Marietta City Schools.

Topic: Education

Audience: Businesses, Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

Offers a curated set of actions to drive impact through four focus areas – corporate policies, inclusive economic development, education and workforce development – that aim to help organizations address the region’s immobility and inequity challenges.

Audience: Businesses, Government agencies, Nonprofits

The Metro Atlanta Housing Strategy provides detailed information and data about the region’s housing market and offers a set of actionable steps that local communities can consider taking to address their housing issues.

Topic: Housing

Audience: Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

Atlanta Regional Commission’s Metro Atlanta Speaks program captures the perspectives and priorities of thousands of Metro Atlantans every year. This data is easily disaggregated by county, race, disability, income, etc. to understand what issues we are facing and dealing with as a region.

Topic: Education, Environment, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Businesses, Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

The National Equity Atlas is America's most detailed report card on racial and economic equity. The atlas equips movement leaders with equity metrics that are deeply disaggregated by race/ethnicity, gender, nativity, ancestry, and income for the largest 100 cities, 150 regions, all 50 states, and the United States as a whole.

Topic: Education, Environment, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Businesses, Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

Invest Atlanta’s One Atlanta: Economic Mobility, Recovery, and Resiliency Plan and data tools help guide equitable investments and programs in disadvantaged Atlanta neighborhoods. The score is a measure of residents’ and households’ economic mobility in different parts of the city of Atlanta, relative to the rest of the city.

Topic: Education, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Businesses, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

The Opportunity Atlas helps users identify which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s. The map allows users to search by location, outcome and demographic group.

Topic: Education, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Community, Nonprofits, Researchers

Links to activities and advocacy opportunities promoted by Propel ATL to take action and reclaim Atlanta's streets as safe, inclusive, and thriving spaces for people to ride, walk, and roll!

Topic: Environment, Health

Audience: Community, Nonprofits

A user-friendly way to understand publicly available data about schools, highlighting the core categories parents and stakeholders are interested in. With information at your side, you can take the next steps to create change by using your vote, sharing your stories, and building a community.

Topic: Education

Audience: Community

This tool assists in identifying communities that require investments in staffing and expertise to bolster infrastructure and enhance climate resilience projects.

Topic: Environment

Audience: Government agencies, Nonprofits

This interactive mapping resource provides a first-of-its-kind overview of the roots of energy insecurity in the South as well as data on how energy insecurity affects the finances, opportunities, and health of millions of people in the region. It shows how energy insecurity is rooted in the building stock, but is exacerbated by policies that have led to energy and housing systems where low-income households and people of color pay a higher financial and health price to power their homes than everyone else. Ultimately, this geospatial resource outlines the contours of energy insecurity in the region, and points the way toward policy solutions to address energy insecurity effectively.

Topic: Education, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Community, Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

The Truth(Ed) Action Toolkit is a set of tools meant to aid you in taking action around truth in education and related issues. In the toolkit, you will find resources from a variety of partner organizations, tools to hold people in power accountable, opportunities for evaluating your local curriculum & targeting Curriculum Companies, a space to tell your story and get support in amplifying it far and wide.

Topic: Education

Audience: Community, Nonprofits

Need help? United Way's 2-1-1 is an information and referral service. It gathers information on community resources and refer audiences to the resources best suited to their needs.

Topic: Education, Environment, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Businesses, Community, Nonprofits

Helps government agencies, policymakers, and community advocates assess demographic and spatial disparities in their program data by comparing it with five-year (2015–19) American Community Survey variables.

Topic: Education, Environment, Health, Household economics, Housing

Audience: Government agencies, Nonprofits, Researchers

1300+ WoC participated on a survey available in 8 languages that gather demographic data, opinions about issues that mattered to them. Statewide desegregated by county.

Topic: Education, Environment

Audience: Community