Kindred Futures (KF) recent­ly kicked off an effort to help 1,000 Black-owned busi­ness­es in Atlanta either hire their first employ­ee or offer liv­ing wages to cur­rent workers.

Called the Advanc­ing Enter­prise Pros­per­i­ty: 1,000 Black Busi­ness­es in 1,000 Days Cam­paign, the effort will focus on com­pa­nies in high-growth sec­tors in Atlanta’s South­east, South­west and North­west areas as well as along the Atlanta Belt­Line.

The cam­paign stems from a col­lab­o­ra­tive — launched by The Kende­da Fund and the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion in 2017 — that aims to expand com­mu­ni­ty wealth build­ing strate­gies with an end goal of clos­ing the city’s racial wealth gap.