GoATL FUNDS
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GoATL impact investing
GoATL is an impact fund strategy designed to achieve both a social (impact) and financial (investment) return. These innovative fund approaches provide mission-minded investors with an opportunity to accelerate and sustain positive community outcomes for metro Atlanta residents by providing cost-effective loans to nonprofits and for-profit partners who leverage these investments to achieve impacts in areas such as safe and healthy housing, new schools in underserved areas, as well as more equitable access to living-wage careers.
GoATL expanded its scope in 2022. In addition to its historic support of innovative intermediaries like Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), GoATL now also has funds that focus on direct investments into opportunities that advance affordable housing and economic inclusion. Read on to learn more about the strategy behind these funds, as well as the impact they are making across metro Atlanta communities.
What is impact investing?
Impact investing is strategically invested capital that makes a positive social impact in local neighborhoods while providing a small financial return. GoATL’s investments support social causes and enterprises that provide sustainable, long-term benefits to the community, achieving capital preservation and a measurable financial return. While traditional philanthropy provides grants, impact investing recycles dollars for the greater good.
Current GoATL Funds
Community Capacity Fund
GoATL funds targeted for positive impact: Addressing inequities in the Atlanta region by investing in the capacity of the community’s best advocates for innovation.
Affordable Housing Fund
Investing directly in housing solutions that offer Atlanta residents affordable living options. Learn more about the GoATL Affordable Housing Fund here.
Economic Inclusion Fund
Investing in underserved and BIPOC entrepreneurs: Driving job growth and financial opportunity for small business owners.
GoATL Funds: Impact Investing 101
What is impact investing, and what can it mean for you? Learn more about the concept in this video primer.
GoATL Fund: Stories
What does impact investing really look like? Learn directly from an entrepreneur and new homeowner about the impact this investment has made.
Preserving farmland for next-generation farmers
In 2021, the Community Foundation’s impact investing initiative, GoATL, invested in the Conservation Fund’s Working Farms Fund to create and preserve urban farms in Atlanta, supporting local farmers who feed our neighborhood residents with safe, healthy and fresh farm-to-table food.
Recent investments
Impact investing stories
Making Magnolias and NCRC CDF’s journey with GoGeorgia Capital
Capital Good Fund and the American Immigration Lawyers Association: Helping immigrants tackle financial barriers in Georgia
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta’s GoATL Fund partners with lenders to connect small businesses to financing
For more information, please contact:
Sydney Hulebak
Impact Investment Manager, GoATL Capacity Fund
256.326.4859
shulebak@cfgreateratlanta.org
Sarah Kirsch
Managing Director, Housing Funds
404.588.3186
skirsch@cfgreateratlanta.org
Kayla Jones
Economic Inclusion Fund Manager
770.759.0681 ext. 1005
kjones@cfgreateratlanta.org