Resource Bank

Welcome to The Atlanta Women's Foundation's Resource Bank. The purpose of this section is to provide access to important information and research relevant to the lives of Atlanta's women and girls.  You will find links to organizations dedicated to a variety of issues including philanthropy, economic empowerment, policy research and advocacy.

• Philanthropy
• Other Resources
• AWF’s Reading List

AWF Research & Reports

The Atlanta Women's Foundation is committed to developing original research, statistics and analysis related to the economic empowerment of women and girls in our community. To this end, The Atlanta Women's Foundation recently sponsored two reports offering information on the economic status of Atlanta’s women and girls and key factors impacting their lives.  In January 2008, the Foundation commissioned the first statewide survey on women's issues.

• Status of Women in Atlanta: A Survey of Economic, Demographic, and Social Indicators for the 15-County Area.  Prepared by the Fiscal Research Center at Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 2007.  Funded by The Atlanta Women's Foundation. 

Download the full report.

• The Economic Status of Women in Georgia: Wide Disparities by Race and Ethnicity. Prepared by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, January 2008. 

Download the fact sheet.

• Ending Sex Trafficking of Children in Atlanta.  Authored by Nancy Boxill and Deborah Richardson and published in the Journal of Women and Social Work in 2007, this article reports the story of a coaltion's fight against the sex trafficking of children in Atlanta. In less than 16 months, a coalition of women in Atlanta, Georgia, identified the prostitution of young girls as a major and horrendous crisis in the community, developed and implemented a strategy to combat the problem, purchased property for a treatment facility, and began to serve victims of child prostitution.

          Click here to download the article.  

• 2008 Georgia Women's Policy Survey. In January 2008, the Atlanta Women's Foundation commissioned this scientific telephone survey of men and women.  Conducted by The Schapiro Group, Inc., the poll surveyed Georgia voters on issues of importance to women and their families.

          Click here for more information.