Articles from the Atlanta Business Chronicle
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 15, 2013
When it comes to new stadium negotiations, the Atlanta Braves and Cobb County officials are in the early innings of what could be a long game.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 8, 2013
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Decatur-based International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) at a celebration at Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan on Nov. 5.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 8, 2013
Metro Atlanta has 66 institutions of higher learning teaching a total of 277,831 undergraduate and graduate students — undeniably a strong enough concentration to qualify the region as a college town.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 1, 2013
The Atlanta Girls’ School has named Ayanna Hill-Gill, currently head of the Purnell School in Pottersville, N.J., as its new head beginning July 1, 2014.
Hill-Gill has worked at Purnell in various positions for 19 years and served as its head of school since 2007. The all-girls boarding school serves about 100 students in the ninth to 12th grades.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 1, 2013
When it comes to pure horsepower, metro Atlanta’s nonprofit sector rivals any other metro area in the United States.
Of the top 20 nonprofit organizations in the country, five are based in metro Atlanta, according to the 2013 Philanthropy 400 listing just published by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. No other metro area is home to as many of the top 20 nonprofits in the United States.
New York, which is home to 72 organizations on the Philanthropy 400 list, surprisingly does not have one nonprofit in the top 20. Virginia, however, has three in the top 20, including the No. 1 nonprofit in the country — United Way Worldwide.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 25, 2013
The Nature Conservancy in Georgia not only met its $25 million fundraising goal — it surpassed it by almost $1 million — raising $25.9 million.
In 2010, the Nature Conservancy announced its $25 million capital campaign, which helped protect more than 44,000 acres of land in Georgia and help support important science and restoration across the state and beyond.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 25, 2013
If Delta Air Lines Inc. CEO Richard Anderson has his way, the 30-year future of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport will be decided in 2014.
A new master plan is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2014 that likely will recommend the building of a sixth runway and extending the airport’s concourses with new gates east of the recently opened Maynard H. Jackson International Terminal.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 18, 2013
The Atlanta community will be giving civil rights leader the Rev. C.T. Vivian a “Send Off Salute” on Saturday, Oct. 19, at the City Hall atrium at noon.
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed as well as other dignitaries will honor Vivian, who is one of this year’s 16 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 18, 2013
Responding to speculation that he will retire by early next year, Atlanta airport chief Louis Miller says he has made no plans on when he will step down.
Miller, who will turn 66 next April, was named aviation general manager of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in September 2010 after a nationwide search to find a successor to Benjamin DeCosta, who ran the Atlanta airport for 12 years.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 11, 2013
It’s Atlanta, again.
Atlanta has won the 2015 gathering of the Nobel Peace Laureates — only the second time that the summit of international superstars will have been held in the United States.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 4, 2013,
The Woodruff Arts Center has tapped Steve Cahillane, president of Coca-Cola Americas, to head its 2014-2015 annual campaign. He will succeed William H. Rogers Jr., president and CEO of SunTrust Banks, who is the current chair of the campaign.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 4, 2013
Atlanta can be one of the premier leaders in mobile technology, according to leaders in the industry meeting at the first Mobility Live! summit at the Woodruff Arts Center on Oct. 1.
By Maria Saporta and Doug Sams
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 4, 2013
A year after first showing interest, developer Egbert Perry is the frontrunner to acquire the former General Motors Co. plant in Doraville, Ga.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on September 27, 2013,
Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School on Sept. 24 had the public phase kickoff of the largest building campaign in its 54-year history.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on September 27, 2013
As business leaders develop a growing appreciation for the value of early education, one metro Atlanta company is becoming a national force in the field.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on September 20, 2013,
The United Way of Greater Atlanta decided to go virtual this year when kicking off its annual fundraising campaign on Sept. 18.
It also is making another major change — it is revising its annual campaign goal to include only workplace giving and not government and philanthropic grants.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on September 20, 2013
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is building its leadership team with the hiring of Terrie Rouse, a seasoned museum and nonprofit executive, as its new chief operating officer.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on September 20, 2013
A strikingly bold glass sculpture with flowing water will adorn Atlanta’s newest attraction, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on September 13, 2013,
AID Atlanta, a 31-year-old organization with national stature, is in the midst of a major leadership transition.
The board is conducting a nationwide search for a permanent CEO to steer the organization through the potentially bumpy period of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act — and the future medical funding of treating people living with HIV and AIDS.
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on September 13, 2013
As CARE and Atlanta celebrate their 20th anniversary together, both the international relief organization and the community are publicly recommitting to each other.
