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2009 Emory Community Giving

Georgia Black United Fund

 

Georgia Black United Fund (GBUF)
1201 Peachtree Street NE

400 Colony Square, Suite 200
Atlanta, Georgia 30361
404.524.4003

404-524-6332 (F)
Erskine Hawkins, Executive Director

E-mail: erskinehawkins@mindspring.com
E-mail: gbuf-atlanta@mindspring.com
Website: http://www.ga-buf.org/


In 2008 more than 643,000 Georgia residents, mainly in the metro Atlanta area, were served by the Georgia Black United Fund, Inc. through its member agencies. The Georgia Black United Fund, Inc. (GBUF) has been serving Georgia resident since 1975.  GBUF is an umbrella organizations with thirty-eight member agencies and provides fundraising, technical assistance, and opportunities for collaboration for all member agencies.  Funds are allocated on a quarterly basis to give unrestricted supplementary support to projects and programs that assist in building a self-sufficient economic infrastructure in African-American and other underserved communities in the metro Atlanta area. GBUF is governed by a sixteen-member, Georgia-based board of directors, and currently participates in fourteen workplace-giving programs in addition to its other fundraising efforts.  GBUF represents agencies such as 100 Black Men of Atlanta, National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta Chapter of 100 Black Women, ROOTS Adoption Agency, Covenant House Georgia, Inc., Apex Museum, Hammonds House Galleries and Resource Center, Figgtree Youth Recording Academy, Georgia Citizens’ Coalition on Hunger, Single Parents Alliance and Resource Center, Tennis in the Hood, and Spectrum Technical Institute.  Contributions to GBUF will be distributed among the organizations or distributed in full to the organization of your choice if so designated.

 

GBUF currently is one of four recipients of a grant from the Kellogg Foundation through the Rockefeller Advisory group that matches 1:1 any contributions up to $200,000.  A single contribution to GBUF supports the work of all our members.

  2006 2007 2008

Total 2008 Revenues:

Funds Raised from Workplace Giving:

Revenues to Member Agencies (2008):

  % of Workplace Revenues to Member Agencies:

Fund-Raising Expenses Rate:

Management General Expenses Rate:

Total Net Worth:

$209,703
$188,577

$186,701

94%

1%

5%

$22,778

$208,849
$198,701

$186,965
88%

5%
7%

$29,597

 

$243,119
$20,146

$202,323
$203,852

3%
47%

$33,002

 

Current member agencies include:

100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc.

4 Girls Foundation, Inc.

Agape House Ministry

Apex Museum

A Rare View

Brightside Youth & Family Intervention Center

Center for Democratic Renewal

Chance for a Higher Level

Committed to Children, Inc.

Community Aid & Development Corporation

Community Council of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc.

Covenant House of Georgia, Inc.

East Athens Development Corporation

Family Outreach Ministries

Federation of Southern Cooperatives

Figg Tree Youth Recording Academy

Georgia Citizen's Coalition on Hunger

Hammonds House Museum

It's All About Education

Metropolitan Atlanta Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.

Metro Atlanta Respite & Developmental Services, Inc.

National Black Arts Festival

National Urban Coalition for Unity and Peace, Inc.

Project South

REEDEM Community Outreach, Inc.

Restoration Community Resources, Inc.

Roots, Inc.

Ropheka Rock of the World, Inc.

Single Parent Alliance & Resource Center

Sisterlove, Inc.

Spectrum Technical Institute

Tennis in the 'Hood

The Community Court/Restorative Justice Center, Inc.

The Dialysis and Transportation Support Center, Inc.

Victory Community Development Corporation

Village Keepers, Inc.

Youth Connection

Zion Keeper, Inc.

Georgia Black United Fund currently participates in eleven workplace-giving programs, including:

Atlanta Board of Education
Atlanta Housing Authority
AT&T
City of Atlanta Friendship Club
City of East Point

Combined Federal Campaign

Fulton County

Henry Grady Foundation
Lucent Technologies
MARTA
State of Georgia


 

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