Category: Maria’s Metro

By Maria Saporta

Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, March 1, 2013

For Hamilton Powell, a 32-year-old Atlanta entrepreneur, it’s all about time.

His one-year-old Atlanta business — Crown & Caliber — buys and sells luxury watches from around the world.

And every time Crown & Caliber makes a sale, the company puts aside $25 in a fund that goes to the nonprofit MAP International to help buy more time for people living in some of the most impoverished parts of the world.

By Maria Saporta and Douglas Sams

Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, March 1, 2013

Atlanta is poised to become a hub for educational technology, says the CEO of a new nonprofit backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Atlanta Business Chronicle reported Feb. 5 that inBloom Inc. has chosen Atlanta for its headquarters. The nonprofit, which will provide technology services to schools as they race to meet new academic requirements, could help make Atlanta a center for a cohesive effort to accelerate student achievement in the United States by boosting personalized learning in schools.

By Maria Saporta

Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, March 1, 2013

As the top executive for The Coca-Cola Co., Muhtar Kent may be the most global CEO working for the most global company in the world.

It is a role Kent takes seriously. As Coca-Cola’s CEO for nearly five years (his anniversary will be in July), Kent has continued to expand the company’s business and social impact on the world.

By Maria Saporta

Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, February 22, 2013

The Atlanta-based CDC Foundation has championed an effort to build two new public health buildings in Haiti as a way to help the country continue its recovery from the 2010 earthquake.

The two buildings will be dedicated in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 25.

After the earthquake, Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population was destroyed, forcing its health officials to work out of temporary housing or tents. Haiti also had other public health needs, including a place to conduct epidemiology training and conduct research.

By Maria Saporta

Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, February 22, 2013

For Atlanta builder Dave Moody, his life’s biggest project has been rebuilding himself after having been sexually abused when he was only 10 years old.

Moody kept that secret buried for 26 years until 1992 when he finally told his wife, Karla.

But Moody wasn’t prepared for what followed — repeated anxiety and panic attacks that left him unable to breathe. After undergoing countless medical tests, through therapy he finally realized that his attacks were connected to the abuse that he had tried so hard to ignore for most of his adult life.

By Maria Saporta

Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, February 8, 2013

The Chastain Park Conservancy wants to create an extraordinary space for play.

The conservancy is undergoing a$2.5 million capital campaign to transform its current half-acre, nondescript playground into a 6-acre hillside with green space and a 3-acre active play area for all ages.

“It’s a pretty sad little playground right now,” said Jay Smith, vice chairman of the Conservancy who is leading the fundraising effort. “And it is the only playground in a city park within a five-mile radius. It needs to be replaced.”

By Maria Saporta

Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, February 1, 2013

The Woodruff Arts Center’s annual campaign is more than halfway there.

The campaign has raised more than $4.8 million in the first four months of its eight-month effort. The campaign goal is $9.2 million.

The Coca-Cola Co. and the Georgia Power Foundation have each donated $500,000.