The coronavirus pandemic ushered in a “perfect storm” of health care and economic crises that have not been seen in our lifetime. When the full force of the pandemic hit greater Atlanta in mid-March, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and United Way of Greater Atlanta and the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta stepped in, after quickly realizing that neither organization could tackle a challenge of this magnitude alone. In a matter of days, we launched the Greater Atlanta COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund (COVID-19 Fund) to get emergency funding to nonprofits working on the frontlines to support our region’s most vulnerable workers and families.