Conyers is the recipient of one of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry inaugural grants focused on economic mobility coaching and strengthening family economic stability in communities across the country. Grant funding focuses on two pathways: economic mobility coaching and municipal child tax credit planning.

Total grants were awarded in the amount of $175,000 and of that, Conyers will receive $25,000 in funds to work with local organizations and begin implementing coaching plans to stabilize economic mobility.

“The intention is that with some coaching and mentorship through this grant funding, participants in our own Conyers community can work to create a better lifestyle for themselves and their families, creating a ripple effect to end poverty in families who’ve experienced it for generations,” said Mayor Connie Alsobrook.

The grant opportunity was open to active members of the Mayors Alliance to End Childhood Hunger, and focuses on economic mobility coaching, a program by the national nonprofit LIFT that pairs one-on-one personal coaching with direct cash support to help parents break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

Municipal child tax credit planning supports planning initiatives that assess the feasibility, design, and implementation pathways for establishing a local Child Tax Credit.

The Mayors Advancing Economic Mobility grant recipients for economic mobility coaching are: Mayor John Horhn of Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Frank Scott, Jr. of Little Rock, Arkansas, Mayor Monroe Nichols of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mayor Connie Alsobrook of Conyers, Georgia, and Mayor Christal E. Watson of Kansas City, Kansas (Wyandotte County, KS). The grant recipient for child tax credit planning is Mayor Fazlul Kabir of College Park, Maryland.

For more information on Share Our Strength No Kid Hungry and related campaigns, visit https://www.nokidhungry.org/.