Milton J. Little Jr.

Milton J. Little, Jr. has served as president and CEO of United Way of Greater Atlanta since July 2007, becoming the organization’s first African American president, after leading United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley. Over his career, he has helped raise more than $1 billion to address community priorities and has advanced cross-sector collaboration among business, nonprofit, philanthropic, and government partners.

Under his leadership, initiatives have delivered major relief and recovery efforts, including Georgia Fresh Start (2010), which provided $20.5 million in emergency assistance to nearly 17,000 families during the Great Recession; response efforts following North Georgia’s 2009 floods; the Greater Atlanta COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund (2020), which raised more than $25 million to support 320 nonprofits; and the Hunger Crisis Response Fund (2025) to help families when SNAP benefits were disrupted.  In 2017, he launched the Child Well-Being Movement, mobilizing the 13-county region to improve outcomes for 250,000 children and young people and supporting development of a zip-code-level Child Well-Being Index using 14 indicators.

Little previously served as COO and interim president/CEO of the National Urban League and held leadership roles in corporate philanthropy at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, as well as vice president for Field Operations at MDRC. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College (magna cum laude) with an M.A. from Columbia University, he has served in numerous civic and nonprofit leadership roles and has received wide recognition for philanthropic and community leadership. A native New Yorker, he is married and has a bonus daughter, two adult sons, and three beautiful grandchildren.