Updated at 4:08 p.m. Wednesday
Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has filed paperwork to run again for the city’s top job in the upcoming 2021 election.
Reed served two terms in City Hall until 2018, but his legacy has been mired in an ongoing federal corruption investigation that has implicated his former chief procurement officer and a deputy chief of staff.
Reed, who also served in both the state House and state Senate, has maintained his own innocence.
Reed joins an already crowded field of mayoral candidates, including City Council President Felicia Moore and City Councilmen Andre Dickens and Antonio Brown. Five of them attended a candidate forum Tuesday.
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The financial support that gushed from philanthropic groups in 2020 had been building for years. Over the past decade, foundations donated nearly $10 billion in the United States to try to boost civic participation, secure election reforms and educate the public, according to the philanthropy research organization Candid. The Ford Foundation, the largest donor in the sector, contributed $635 million in the past four years 33% more than it had donated in the entire previous decade.