Articles from the Atlanta Business Chronicle
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on January 24, 2014
Under the leadership of developer Mark Toro, the Livable Communities Council has selected an all-star group of 50 real estate professionals as members.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on January 24, 2014
The Georgia World Congress Center Authority and the Savannah convention center are exploring a potential partnership that could lead to the GWCCA taking over the management contract of the trade center on Hutchinson Island.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on January 17, 2014
The YWCA of Greater Atlanta will close its five-bedroom Cascade House for homeless women and children on Jan. 17 so it can focus its efforts on its other core programs.
The “Women in Transition” homeless program, located at the Cascade House in southwest Atlanta, cost the YWCA nearly $250,000 to operate last year.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on January 17, 2014
As important as it has been for Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank to select a leading architect to design an iconic football stadium, it has been just as important to recruit a visionary leader to help rebuild the neighborhoods around it.
By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on January 10, 2014
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights had reasons to celebrate over the holidays — it had received a $2 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.
By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on January 10, 2014
From Ernest Greer’s point of view, it is wonderful that Georgia was recently named the No. 1 state in the country for business.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on January 3, 2014
Morehouse College has received a significant gift — financially and symbolically — from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on January 3, 2014
Few executives have been more involved in the Atlanta civic scene in the past decade than Phil Kent, the outgoing president and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on December 20, 2013
Atlanta-based Newell Rubbermaid is restructuring is philanthropic focus — dissolving the Newell Rubbermaid Foundation, which is less than three years old — and realigning its giving efforts to be more in sync with marketing its brands.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on December 20, 2013
The idea for an Atlanta Science Festival was born in February 2011 when three Emory University program directors and friends met for coffee at Starbucks at Emory Village.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on December 13, 2013
The Nature Conservancy in Georgia has a new executive director — Deron Davis — a conservation professional who has been with the organization since 2010.
By Maria Saporta and Amy Wenk
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on December 13, 2013
The Georgia World Congress Center Authority is planning to significantly improve Centennial Olympic Park as it approaches its 20th birthday.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on December 6, 2013
At the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Dec. 3 annual meeting, it was a day to celebrate both new leaders while honoring the legacy of the past 17 years.
It was the day that 2013 Chamber Chairman Paul Bowers, president and CEO of Georgia Power, happily passed the reigns to Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines, who is chairing the Metro Atlanta Chamber in 2014.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on December 6, 2013
Atlanta’s growing prominence as a center for autism research and treatment has received a major financial endorsement — $40 million — from two local foundations.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 29, 2013
When retired investment banker Bill McGahan, 51, launched Georgia Works! in early October, he knew the likely candidates for the program would fit the following description:
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 29, 2013
Not so long ago, it appeared that a quota system was being used when a woman would be named to the board of a public company.
But the 2013 study by OnBoard, formerly the Board of Directors Network, reveals that many of Georgia’s public companies have moved beyond the quota system when it comes to women directors.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 22, 2013
The Atlanta-based CDC Foundation has just passed two major milestones.
Since its inception in 1995, the CDC Foundation has launched more than 700 programs and it has raised $400 million to advance the work of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 22, 2013
When she assumes the role of president of the Metro Atlanta Chamber on Jan. 6, Hala Moddelmog said she will become an “ambassador” for the Atlanta region and the state.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 15, 2013
For The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, happy days are here again.
At its 2013 annual meeting at The Fox Theatre on Nov. 8, the foundation reported that it reached a record of $793 million in total assets. The previous high watermark was in 2007 when the foundation reached $771 million in assets.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 15, 2013
A chance encounter in Copenhagen in October 2011 opened up the conversations between the city of Atlanta and the Atlanta Braves about the team’s future at Turner Field.
Michael Plant, the Braves’ executive vice president of business operations, ran into Peter Aman, then the chief operating officer for the city of Atlanta, at a restaurant in the capital of Denmark.
