COVID-19 Crisis Relief Funding Efforts
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Healthcare Georgia Foundation has distributed equitable relief funding to a collection of the state’s healthcare safety net providers and basic human needs organizations. These grants were given for unrestricted general operating support for the organizations to continue their vital work in providing Georgia’s most vulnerable citizens with quality healthcare during this global crisis.
Through its COVID-19 crisis response efforts, the Foundation has awarded a total of 40 grants at $722,000.
Below, you’ll find a link to each organization and information regarding which counties they serve throughout the state.
Basic Human Needs Funding Recipients
Childcare
- Families and Youth Innovation, Inc. (Counties Served: Wilkinson)
Food
- A Better Way Grocers/Heroes for Success (Counties Served: Dougherty, Terrell, Randolph)
- MUST Ministries (Counties Served: Cobb, Cherokee, Fulton, Pickens)
- Southeast Georgia Communities Project (Counties Served: Appling, Candler, Montgomery, Tattnall, Toombs)
- Forsyth Farmers Market (Counties Served: Chatham)
Housing
- Community Outreach Training Center (Counties Served: Thomas, Grady, Mitchell, Brooks, Decatur)
Unemployment and Financial Assistance
- Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative (Counties Served: Fulton, Dekalb)
- Albany Community Together (ACT!) (Counties Served: Dougherty, Terrell, Lee, Worth, Mitchell)
Access to Medications
- MedBank (Counties Served: Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Bulloch, Bryan)
Multiple Services
- City of Refuge Dalton (Counties Served: Whitfield)
- United Way of Coastal Georgia* Redistributed funding to:
- Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia (Counties served: Glynn)
- America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia (Counties served: Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, McIntosh, and Wayne)
- Coastal Outreach Soccer (Counties served: Glynn)
- United Way of Bartow County* Redistributed funding to:
- Allatoona Resource Center. (Counties served: Bartow)
- The Salvation Army Cartersville. (Counties served: Bartow)
- North Bartow Community Services. (Counties served: Bartow)
- United Way of Southwest Georgia* Redistributed funding to:
- Albany Area YMCA. (Counties served: Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Randolph, Sumter, Terrell, Worth)
- Cutliff Grove Family Resource Center. (Counties served: Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Randolph, Sumter, Terrell, Worth)
- New Visions Community Development. (Counties served: Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Randolph, Sumter, Terrell, Worth)
- Partnership for Southern Equity* Redistributed funding to:
- Community 1st Planning Commission
- Beloved Community Development Corporation
- Angkor Resource Center, Inc.
- GREENHOOD
- The Style Firm of Tyjah Khan & Associates
- A Woman’s Worth Project, Inc.
- Peoplestown Revitalization Corporation
- STAND, Inc.
- Mothers Against Gang Violence
- Housing Tonight, Inc.
*In an intermediary role, these groups will redistribute their funding to organizations within their communities
Community Action Agency
- Action Pact, Inc. (Counties Served: Brantley, Pierce, Ware)
Additional COVID-19 Grant Recipients
Safety Net Funding Recipients
Federally Qualified Health Centers
- Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc. (Counties Served: Dougherty, Baker, Calhoun, Lee, Terrell)
- Athens Neighborhood Health Center, Inc. (Counties Served: Clarke)
- Curtis V. Cooper Primary Health Care, Inc. (Counties Served: Chatham, Effingham, Bryan)
- East Georgia Healthcare Center, Inc. (Counties Served: Tattnall, Toombs, Candler, Emanuel, Appling)
- Whitefoord, Inc. (Counties Served: Dekalb, Fulton)
- Southside Medical Center, Inc. (Counties Served: Fulton)
Public Health Districts
- Richmond County Department of Public Health (Counties Served: Richmond)
- Houston County Health Department (Counties Served: Bibb, Houston, Jasper, Jones, Washington)
Community Service Boards
- Clayton Center Community Service Board (Counties Served: Clayton)
- Albany Area Community Service Board (Aspire) (Counties Served: Dougherty, Calhoun, Early, Miller, Terrell)
- View Point Health (Counties Served: Dekalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale)
- Community Service Board of East Central Georgia (Serenity Behavioral Health Systems) (Counties Served: Columbia, Richmond, McDuffie, Warren, Wilkes)
- New Horizons Behavioral Health (Counties Served: Muscogee, Randolph, Clay, Quitman, Stewart)
- Gateway Community Service Board (Counties Served: Chatham, Camden, Effingham, Liberty, McIntosh)
- Middle Flint Behavioral Health Care (Counties Served: Sumter, Crisp, Houston, Peach)
Free/Charitable Clinics
- MercyMed of Columbus (Counties Served: Muscogee, Chattahoochee, Meriwether, Harris, Talbot)
- Macon Volunteer Clinic (Counties Served: Bibb)
- Partnership Health Center (Counties Served: Lowndes, Brooks, Berrien, Lanier, Cook)
- Fayette C.A.R.E. Clinic, Inc. (Counties Served: Fayette, Clayton, Coweta)
- Community Helping Hands Clinic, Inc. (Counties Served: White)
- The J.O.Y. Clinic (Counties Served: Laurens)
- Ser Familia, Inc. (Counties Served: Cobb, Gwinnett, Cherokee, Fulton, Dekalb)