Georgia’s small businesses – those having fewer than 500 employees – employed 1.7 million Georgians before the COVID-19 pandemic and accounted for 99% of the total number of businesses in the state. Programs designed to help keep these businesses…
The Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) will soon be distributing $552 million to help landlords and tenants who are behind on rent and utility payments. The funds come from the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program appropriated to help…
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more Georgians than ever find themselves in need of food and healthcare services. MUST Ministries, a Marietta nonprofit dedicated to helping homeless and struggling individuals and families, has provided more than 1.7 million pounds of…
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to climb in Georgia and throughout the nation, Georgia Tech has found a way to limit daily case counts to the single digits on its Atlanta campus. Launched in August, the university’s saliva-based…
Atlanta’s Emory-Clifton Rotary Club teamed up with the United Advanced Practice Registered Nurses of Georgia, Shriners Hospitals for Children and the Medical Association of Georgia to virtually present the Third Annual Polio and Health Symposium last week. About 250 participants…
Like many of Georgia’s research universities, institutions of higher learning in Atlanta are turning to technology in search of solutions to a variety of problems associated with the coronavirus pandemic. Their efforts run the gamut from new testing methods to…
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $4.1 million in grants to 11 Georgia organizations. The funds are coming from the $1.5-billion federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed earlier this year. Agencies across…
In response to climbing coronavirus cases in the state, a drive-thru testing site with the capacity to test 5,000 people a day has opened near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) partnered with the airport,…
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has announced the launch of the Resurgence Grant Fund to help small businesses recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The fund will deliver grants to cover pandemic-related costs like providing personal protective equipment (PPE), cleaning supplies…
The Georgia Film Academy (GFA), a collaboration of the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia, is offering the first ever COVID Compliance Course to help the state’s multi-billion-dollar industry relaunch. Free for film and television…
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