GCS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created by the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) in 2018 to address the key challenges facing Georgia's communities that are holding them back and keeping them from reaching their full potential.
GCS is the only statewide nonprofit in the country created by city leaders focused on addressing issues related to intergenerational poverty through collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders who share a passion for our mission.
Become a Friend of Georgia Cities
Strong, vibrant cities are critical to our state's prosperity and quality of life. While cities are doing well by many measures, the outcomes of intergenerational poverty continue to keep them and their residents from reaching their full potential. City officials cannot solve this challenge alone.
Strategic partnerships and collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders are required. Your tax-deductible donation supports Georgia City Solutions' efforts to enhance and expand innovative programs that will make a significant and sustained impact in Georgia's communities.
All gifts to Georgia City Solutions are important, and we want you to be a part of the decision-making process. Feel free to select the initiative that you would like to support or make a general donation and the staff will allocate that gift to where it is needed most.
Areas of Focus
Youth Leadership and Engagement
The ENGAGE program facilitates collaboration between city officials and youth to proactively address community issues, concerns, and aspirations. Through leadership development initiatives, fresh ideas and a perspective that only they can provide, a city's youth can serve an important role in creating healthy, vibrant cities.
Youth Leadership and EngagementMunicipal Workforce Development
The Jobs With Purpose initiative assists cities to proactively address their government's workforce needs. The initiative provides a framework within which cities can identify and analyze their current and future workforce needs and develop an actionable strategy to meet those needs.
Municipal Workforce DevelopmentEquity and Inclusion
The EMBRACE program fosters community strength by providing city officials and partner organizations with tools and resources to ensure everyone is included and every voice is welcomed, respected, and accounted for. The program provides flexible and scalable programs to assist in developing an actionable path forward.
Embrace Equity and InclusionLiteracy
The Mayor's Reading Club Program aims to improve the literacy skills of children and youth in Georgia cities through encouragement, support, and leadership from city mayors. A children's book series and art activities toolkit to teach young readers about local government are included in the program.
LiteracyGeneral Donations
General donations to Georgia City Solutions, Inc. help to establish and support new and innovative programs, solutions, and research aimed at building vibrant, economically prosperous, and well-managed cities and improving the quality of life of municipal residents in Georgia.
General DonationsMayor's Reading Club
The goal of this new program is to improve the literacy skills and overall success with early reading of children and youth in Georgia cities through encouragement, support, and leadership from city mayors. The reading club is a simple concept designed to serve as a “building block” to a future Literacy Improvement Strategy Cohort to assist communities in developing and implementing a locally based literacy improvement strategy.
Mayor's Reading ClubFinancial Literacy Coalition
The Financial Literacy Coalition is a three-year pilot initiative in the City of Tifton, Georgia with the goal to better equip a population of adults and children in Tifton to make good decisions on credit and better position assets and resources that are effective and productive. The positive outcomes from this initiative will result in significant personal, household-level, small business, and community-wide impact.
Financial Literacy Coalition