Articles by Maria Saporta
The past, present and future were on full display Monday at the Task Force for Global Health’s 30th anniversary celebration.
The Task Force’s founder – Bill Foege – the revered godfather of global health. Foege was given a special tribute by current president and CEO Mark Rosenberg, who succeeded Foege in 1999.
At the beginning of 2016, another transition will take place.
In a post to Facebook friends over the weekend, George Chidi wrote: “Well I’ve been here a week, and they haven’t fired me, so I suppose I should say something about it. I have a new job.”
Chidi, a social activist and journalist with an MBA from Georgia Tech, is the new “social impact director” for Central Atlanta Progress and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District.
Atlanta-based Veritiv, a relatively new business destined to be listed as a Fortune 500 company in 2016, is solidifying its top management team.
As an industry leader in business-to-business distribution solutions, Veritiv opened its doors on July 1, 2014 following the merger of International Paper’s xpedx division and Unisource Worldwide.
City leaders hope that the successful negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that was reached in Atlanta over the weekend will bode well for future international gatherings.
The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations announced on Monday that they had agreed to the largest regional economic pact in history – an agreement that could set the stage for global trade for others.
Agnes Scott College will be the site of a major announcement Monday morning on an expanded commitment by U.S. colleges and universities to combat climate change.
Elizabeth Kiss, president of Agnes Scott College, said that in the past decade, nearly 700 institutions of higher learning have signed on to the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).
A united team welcomed Julian Castro, secretary of the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Monday morning when he announced that Atlanta had been awarded a competitive $30 million Choice grant.
Castro said he is pleased with all the economic development that has been drawn to Atlanta, but HUD wants to make sure that “progress happens and every neighborhood benefits, that every section of Atlanta can share in that prosperity.”
The theme of the sixth annual Neighborhood Summit – the largest to date – was “Embracing the Power of Education.”
The keynote address on the “Power of Education” was delivered Michael Thurmond, who recently stepped down as the interim superintendent of DeKalb County Schools.
Thurmond said he’s a living example of the transformational power of education – as the descendant of three generations of illiterate cotton sharecroppers.
The City of Atlanta likely has been awarded a $30 million Choice grant to help revitalize communities in west Atlanta from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed had a twinkle in his eye Friday morning when he said HUD Secretary Juliån Castro would be coming to Atlanta Monday morning to make an announcement.
Reed revealed Castro’s upcoming visit during a sit down interview with three reporters after the quarterly meeting of the Atlanta Committee for Progress at Invesco.
Green Law honored four legacy environmentalists Thursday evening at the Nelson Mullins law firm while introducing its new executive director – Melissa Allen Heath – to attendees.
Heath is joining the GreenLaw firm after working for the Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 since 1987 – most recently as associate regional counsel.
For city dwellers, there is no freer feeling than when people on foot or bicycles take over a street that’s been closed off to cars.
That feeling is so infectious that it is spreading throughout the country and the world – getting a foothold in a multitude of cities including right here through Atlanta Streets Alive – the next one will be held on Sunday, Sept. 27.
Plans to locate the soccer training facility for the Atlanta United FC in DeKalb County might not be a done deal after all.
An official with the AMB Group – Arthur M. Blank’s group of companies – confirmed that the soccer club is reconsidering a site in Marietta in case the DeKalb deal falls apart.
Over the years, Jimmy Sibley and I would joke about the “When I’m dead” column.
He would tell me certain things in confidence, and then tell me in his Southern gentleman’s way that it could go in the “When I’m dead” column.
Well this was a column I never wanted to write.
Georgia is on the cusp of seizing an opportunity to leverage the rich and diverse global health assets that exist the state.
At the end of the 2015 Health Connect South gathering at the Georgia Aquarium on Wednesday, a framework for a Georgia Global Health Alliance was presented by two influential champions – Dr. Louis Sullivan and Dr. Mark Rosenberg.
The Urban Land Institute Atlanta selected one of the city’s most precious treasures – the Fox Theatre – for its 2015 Awards dinner on Sept. 10.
At the beginning of the evening, ULI Atlanta Chairman Kevin Cantley, president and CEO of Cooper Carry, gave a poignant history of the 41-year-old “Save the Fox” movement.
Then, at the end of the movement, ULI Atlanta gave its highest award – the Project of the Year – to the most suburban development among the 2015 finalists – Avalon in Alpharetta.
The Morehouse School of Medicine has received a $3 million gift from one of Atlanta’s most beloved couples – Henry “Hank” and Billye Suber Aaron.
The gift will be used to expand to expand the Hugh Gloster Medical Education building and create the Billye Suber Aaron Student Pavilion, the School announced on Friday.
By Maria Saporta Last Thursday afternoon, two preservationists took Craig Richard, the CEO of Invest Atlanta, on a tour of 10 historically significant, but endangered, African-American buildings in the city. Mark McDonald, president and CEO of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation; and Sheffield Hale, president and CEO of the Atlanta History Center; wanted to […]
The campaign to save the Bell Building in the heart of downtown is gaining steam.
The Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Atlanta) and the Georgia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Georgia) sent a compelling letter to save the building to Brad Ferrer, an executive at CNN who holds influential positions at Georgia State University.
The Food Well Alliance, which was formed about a year ago, held its first major event Saturday – Healthy Soil, Healthy Community Festival – at the Truly Living Well urban farm.
Hundreds of people showed up during the festival to learn more about how to encourage and provide greater access to healthy foods – especially in communities that have been described as food deserts.
And one way is to grow food in metro Atlanta through community gardens and urban farms.
John Grant, CEO of 100 Black Men of Atlanta, will soon become the executive director of the new “Celebration Bowl.”
Grant, who has led 100 Black Men of Atlanta for 14 years, will be leading the new post-season college football bowl game, owned and operated by ESPN Events. The inaugural Celebration Bowl is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 19 at the Georgia Dome, and it will air live on ABC at noon.
In 2007, the Coca-Cola Co. pledged to return 100 percent of the water it uses by 2020.
The soft drink company is announcing on Tuesday at the World Water Week in Stockholm that it expects to meet that ambitious goal by the end of the year.
Its combined efforts have put Coca-Cola on track to be the first global food and beverage company to replenish all the water it uses back to communities and nature.
