At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the Community Foundation of Central Georgia (CFCG) and United Way of Central Georgia (UWCG) announced the Central Georgia COVID-19 Response & Recovery Fund to provide funding to nonprofit organizations supporting people affected by the pandemic. 

Our organizations announce the Fund’s sixth round of grants totaling $23,500 to 3 organizations to assist in their emergency responses.

The grant recipients and grant amounts are as follows:

These grants are part of an ongoing process with the dollar amounts approved by the Central Georgia COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund committee. To identify the immediate and critical needs to support those most vulnerable, Community Foundation and United Way staff are hosting bi-weekly calls focused in eight key sectors with nonprofit leaders across Central Georgia.

The fund began with commitments of $675,000 thanks in large part to a grant of $500,000 from The Peyton Anderson Foundation. In addition, CFCG, UWCG and The Griffith Foundation each contributed $50,000, and an anonymous donor contributed $25,000 to seed the fund. Since that time, generous grants have been made by the following: 

$725,000 from the Knight Foundation funds of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia

$30,000 from the Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation

$15,000 from the Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation

$41,000 from generous fundholders at the Community Foundation of Central Georgia

$11,000 from reallocations to the fund from company sponsors of United Way’s cancelled Annual Awards Luncheon

$95,147 from individual contributions, including donations to the online COVID-19 fund donation website, telethon, and 478 Sings United    

$40,000 from Jeff Smith Automotive

$10,000 from GEICO

$10,000 from Wells Fargo

$10,000 from Truist Foundation