The filing comes as state level programs gain momentum across the country.

The Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative is proud to launch the Black Community Wealth Network, a national network positioned to build a broad network of practitioners and supporters committed to the task of building Black community wealth.

Today, the Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative released its landmark report, “Building a Beloved Economy: A Baseline and Framework for Building Black Wealth in Atlanta,” at its inaugural policy luncheon forum, Beloved Economies: Shaping Policy to Build Black Wealth. The report proposes a new framework for understanding and confronting the massive racial wealth divide and its impact on Black Atlantans. The report also provides an overview of the state of Black wealth, poverty, income, debt, access to capital, housing, business ownership, and jobs in Atlanta. 

Today, the Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative announces our partnership with Executive Financial Partners to develop a program to build the capital readiness and business operations expertise of Black businesses and Business-Serving Organizations (BSOs).

The podcast’s second episode includes a conversation on the concept of Black wealth and its significance for the Black community.

AWBI receives over $200,000 from Walmart through the Walmart.org Center for Racial Equity to fund this program

The podcast will begin with a four-part series on AWBI’s origins, commitment to building Black wealth, and its upcoming landmark report. 

The Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative (AWBI) is pleased to announce its partnership with IBEX IT Business Experts (IBEX). Beginning in September 2023, AWBI and IBEX will work with business-serving organizations over the course of a year. This effort is structured to bolster the procurement training capacity of business-serving organizations in the Atlanta region.  

Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative (AWBI) announced today that as part of the organization’s research and policy agenda laid out in its 2022-2024 Strategic Plan, AWBI will welcome Dr. Alex Camardelle as its incoming Vice President of Policy and Research.

Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative (AWBI), the first and only data-driven organization dedicated exclusively to closing the racial wealth gap in Atlanta and beyond, announced today that its Board has approved a new strategic plan for 2023 and has appointed Dr. Janelle Williams as CEO to lead the organization.  The announcement comes after successful partnerships with Truist Foundation and Prudential which awarded the organization more than $2M.  The funding will be used to implement key strategies intended to increase Black wealth.

“We are clear this is an ambitious, bold and unapologetically race explicit roadmap guiding our future to Black economic liberation.”

The Board of Directors of Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative is pleased to announce its strategic direction for the next three years.