Strategic Funding Group

Exciting opportunity for nonprofits & social entrepreneurs! Sept. 22nd is Nonprofit Picture Day! Sign up for a slot to get a completely free headshot: http://www.nonprofitpictureday.com/

Congrats to Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. on its U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Targeted Capacity Expansion HIV: Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Women at High Risk for HIV/AIDS award of $500,000 a year for 3 years. RCA is one of Atlanta’s leading providers of behavioral healthcare and HIV services for hard-to reach populations and provides services to 6,000 people annu...ally in metro Atlanta. With this award, RCA will serve African American women living in Clayton, DeKalb, and Fulton Counties who have co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders and high risk for HIV due to homelessness, victimization from domestic violence and human trafficking, a history of other trauma exposure (i.e., ACEs), prior incarceration or institutionalization, and poverty. The program will package safe, stable housing (for lengths of stay of at least six months) with evidence-based, gender-specific, culturally-competent, trauma-informed behavioral health treatment, HIV and Hepatitis testing and counseling, HIV/Hepatitis prevention and treatment, medical care, medical case management, peer mentoring, recovery supports, supportive services, housing supports, and aftercare. RCA will provide outreach, substance abuse screening, and HIV testing to 1,500 women in the community-at-large, and residential treatment and a broad range of HIV and recovery services to 72 minority women annually, (for a total of 216 women over the 3-year grant period). http://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/ti-16-011

"A bachelor’s degree isn’t the only way into the world of technology. If you’re thinking about a technology career, there are other common opportunities to enter the IT workforce."

Jumping for joy after finding out that Atlanta Workforce Development Agency, The Iron Yard - Atlanta, and Tech Square Labs received a $4 million DOL #TechHire grant! I loved working on this project that will train the City of Atlanta’s youth and young adults with barriers to employment and other unemployed and underemployed residents for high-skilled and high-paying jobs in tech. http://buff.ly/291Gwb7

Loved hearing Spirit of the League Champion Award Recipient TheRealKeshiaKnightPulliam's inspirational story at today's Urban League of Greater Atlanta 6th Annual Spirit of the League Awards Luncheon. Also so excited to hear that ULGA received a $100K grant from Fulton County Government! I'm so proud to be an ULGA Board Member today and always!

I had an awesome time yesterday at the 2nd Annual Georgia Supportive Housing Association Reentry Conference. I especially enjoyed hearing Emmanuel, a graduate of Athens Treatment and Accountability Court, tell his inspiring story and hearing about the progress during the Georgia Department of Community Supervision's first year from Commissioner Michael Nail.

Know an ATL nonprofit that needs a website? Check this out! https://www.facebook.com/civicatlanta/posts/499221896941853

Great article about Volunteers of America Oklahoma inTulsa World! We have loved working with VOAOK to develop fantastic programs serving those most in need, especially homeless veterans, in Oklahoma. http://m.tulsaworld.com//article_9718c8c3-823f-5b8d-b168-6

Excited to hear that Atlanta's Westside has been designated as a Promise Zone by the U S Department of Housing & Urban Development!

Congrats to all the FY2016 U.S. Department of Labor Homeless Veteran Reintegration Program grantees, especially SFG clients Volunteers of America Pennsylvania, Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Volunteers of America Michigan, Volunteers of America Greater Ohio, Volunteers of America Massachusetts, Volunteers of America Oklahoma, and Pennyroyal Center! https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/vets/vets20160601

Profile of SFG's President, Leah Tennille by her high school, Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va.! http://www.episcopalhighschool.org//af/profile/index.aspx

Leah Tennille presenting an award at the Urban League of Greater Atlanta's 54th Annual Equal Opportunity Day Dinner.

Awesome panel tonight at CCI: How Can Our Education System Meet the Demands of Today's Workforce