Atlanta participants reflect on first year in guaranteed income program

Atlanta participants reflect on first year in guaranteed income program

A participant in The GRO Fund’s Guaranteed Income Initiative, In Her Hands, learns more about the project from a community adviser. Primary Content

In 2022, the Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund launched the In Her Hands program, with its program partner Give Directly. It selected about 200 women living in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood to participate in a guaranteed income initiative .

Participants receive payments of $850 per month for two years. Since then, the program has expanded to Southwest Georgia and Atlanta’s College Park neighborhood.A year ago, C. Harper was struggling to afford housing. Then she started receiving […]

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