Articles from the Atlanta Business Chronicle
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 6, 2012
The Atlanta Business League called an “urgent meeting” of its members on April 3 at the headquarters of Atlanta Life Financial Group to talk about the redistricting plans of the Atlanta Public Schools.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 6, 2012
Despite the recent controversy over national Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s relationship with Planned Parenthood, the Atlanta affiliate was able to grant $2.2 million to 22 community health organizations on April 2 — the exact same amount it gave away last year.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 6, 2012
Key donors are increasing their investment in the PATH Foundation, a metro Atlanta developer of multiuse trails for more than 20 years.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 27, 2012
The Atlanta Ballet has pulled off a feat that is almost unheard of in the nonprofit community.
The 83-year-old cultural organization is planning to announce March 30 that its capital campaign has raised $20.7 million — far exceeding its initial $14.8 million — in the midst of a recession.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 30, 2012
As a testament to its longtime support of Young Harris College, the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation is giving a $22 million gift as part of the institution’s $55 million capital campaign.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 23, 2012
The presidents of the Atlanta University Center are throwing their full support behind a proposal to create a West End Community Improvement District.
Morehouse College President Robert Franklin invited the other AUC presidents to his home March 19 to meet with potential donors who would help pay for the effort to create a West End CID and revitalize the area.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 23, 2012
The next big challenge for Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will be to tackle the estimated $922 million backlog in the city’s infrastructure — namely roads, bridges and sidewalks.
The mayor is looking at several financial options to pay for that backlog, including going to voters with a bond package that would be a minimum of $250 million and could be as much as $750 million.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 16, 2012
It’s one way to make goal.
When Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines, set the campaign goal for United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta at $80.4 million, he knew it was a stretch.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 9, 2012
Leaders in Atlanta and Georgia have launched a high-powered effort to lure a regional office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to the city.
The federal government has said that it wants to establish several regional offices that could review and issue patents and trademarks as a way of encouraging innovation throughout the country.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 9, 2012
When William Foege receives Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen Jr. Prize in Social Courage on March 15, it will accomplish two important goals.
It will shine the spotlight on a relatively unknown Atlanta leader who has had a tremendous impact on saving lives across the world.
And it will help reinforce Atlanta’s role as a nexus for global health.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 2, 2012
The Foundation for Economic Education will be moving its headquarters from New York to Atlanta in the fall, according to its president, Lawrence Reed.
The Foundation, which dates back to 1946, is the oldest free enterprise economics think tank in the United States, directly reaching about 15,000 students a year from around the world through weeklong seminars and other events. It also has a host of Web-based offerings that reach thousands more.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 2, 2012
JPMorgan Chase & Co. could not be more pleased with how its partnership with the King Center has turned out.
Since last April, JPMorgan has been working on the King Center Imaging Project — digitizing all the center’s archival materials, including speeches and papers of Martin Luther King Jr., and making them available on a new website: www.thekingcenter.org/archive.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 24, 2012
Rome-based Berry College has received an anonymous $10 million challenge gift to help provide at least 80 new full-time scholarships for students who combine their studies with work on campus.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 24, 2012
The Atlanta-based King Center — a nonprofit that has experienced a multitude of management changes over the years — now is under the oversight of Terry Giles, who was made interim custodian of the Center by a Fulton County Superior Court judge on Jan. 31.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 17, 2012
Michael Polk has been president and CEO of Newell Rubbermaid Inc. only since July, but already he is putting his mark on the Atlanta-based company.
Newell Rubbermaid invited up to 250 of its top executives from around the world for its annual convention to Atlanta during the week of Feb. 13 to Feb. 16. But instead of going to a golf resort, Polk decided to spend their first “team-building” day volunteering at the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home for abused and abandoned children.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 17, 2012
If Richard Anderson is worried about Southwest Airlines entering the Atlanta market, he doesn’t show it.
Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines Inc., sat down for an extensive conversation with Atlanta Business Chronicle two days before Southwest’s inaugural Feb. 12 flight into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 10, 2012
The Atlanta History Center has selected history buff Sheffield Hale as its new president and CEO.
Hale is no stranger to the center. He has been volunteering at the Atlanta History Center for more than 25 years. He has served as chairman of the museum’s board. And most recently, he has been co-chairing its $27 million capital campaign.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 10, 2012
Plans to develop a Truett Cathy Legacy Project on the campus of Morris Brown College have fallen through.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 3, 2012
After 20 years as president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, Janice McKenzie-Crayton could not be more excited.
The 50-year-old organization will soon be moving to its own home in Midtown — a move that she believes will improve the visibility, branding and operations of the nonprofit that matches “Big Brothers” and “Big Sisters” with their younger counterparts.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, January 27, 2012
KIPP Metro Atlanta — a charter school nonprofit organization that has been focused on middle school and high school students — will launch its first elementary school in July.
