A local nonprofit is granting Metro Atlanta almost four million dollars for improvements for parks.
The grants are allocated to 37 parks and are geographically spread throughout all of Atlanta’s city council districts, with a few locations in DeKalb County.
About half of the funds are going to historically disinvested communities, defined by the United States Census as areas where more than 50% of residences are at or below 80% of the Area Median Income.
A map of grant recipient parks throughout the Metro Atlanta region, where the pin icons are City of Atlanta parks, star icons are DeKalb County parks and purple icons are parks in census-defined historically disadvantaged communities.
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