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Atlanta is solidifying its role as a center for the packaging industry in the United States.

The Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta has selected the 2019 winners of its Social Enterprise Initiative Scholarships

SunTrust CEO Bill Rogers may be moving to Charlotte, N.C., but Atlanta will stay in his heart and mind.

Atlanta currently has more women in its consular corps than ever in its history, according to Georges Hoffman, the Honorary Consul of Luxembourg in Atlanta since 1995.

The Stand Together Foundation, a national poverty-fighting initiative partly funded by the Koch family, has made a grand entrance in Atlanta by investing in 10 local nonprofits.

The Atlanta Regional Commission’s 2019 LINK trip to Pittsburgh resonated on several levels for the delegation of more than 110 metro leaders who visited the Pennsylvania city from May 15 to May 18.

A May 13 event to celebrate the new and improved Centennial Olympic Park turned into a reunion of the leaders who helped Atlanta win the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.

It’s hard to contain the energy of Jill Savitt, the new CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, who has only been in the role for two months.

Local leaders are making progress in their quest to host the 2020 Summit of the Nobel Peace Laureates and on a larger vision to brand Atlanta as a “City of Peace”.

Atlanta business leader Larry Gellerstedt III will be honored with the prestigious Four Pillar Tribute by the Council for Quality Growth on Oct. 10 at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Venessa Harrison first set her sights on moving to Atlanta from North Carolina 40 years ago. In fact, the reason she first joined AT&T in 1979 was because she believed she would be able to transfer to Atlanta to join several of her friends who had decided to move to Georgia.

Little emotion was on display at what likely was the last annual meeting of SunTrust Banks Inc.

Never before has Atlanta held a birthday party for one of its leading citizens by raising $90 million in his honor.

Change is in the air at the YMCA of Metro Atlanta.

By the end of April, Atlanta’s oldest nonprofit will have moved into its new home in Vine City, less than two blocks away from Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

A group of more than 30 nonprofits – led by the Kendeda Fund and the Annie E. Casey Foundation – are working to change Atlanta’s reputation as the worst major city for income inequality.

David Abney, the CEO of Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc., remembers the night he became a UPSer for life.

At the annual meeting of the Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta on April 24, James Quincey will assume the role of chairman in addition to being CEO – consolidating his leadership of the beverage company.

GoBeyondProfit was launched 16 months ago by Jackson Healthcare’s Rick Jackson to encourage more corporate generosity among Georgia companies to strengthen local communities

The Atlanta Land Trust has selected the development and construction team for 23 multifamily homes on a 1.8-acre site

Two Atlanta women leaders will be collaborating to help bring more equitable development to the region.