Philanthropy has always been considered one of the highest forms of service to humanity. And it’s always evolving. Companies and individuals, no longer just want to write a check. They want to become entrenched in community work and witness the solutions first hand. When donors give, they want to see community impact. Did you know […]
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Posted inPeople, Places & Parks, Thought Leader, Trees Atlanta, Uncategorized
Green Return: How Investing in Trees Benefits Atlanta
By Dave Simpson What if Trees Atlanta gave a gift valued at $10 Billion to the people of Atlanta? By at least one measurement, we’ve done just that. A single street tree can provide over $90,000 of direct benefits over the course of its lifetime (Burden, 2006), and Trees Atlanta has planted and distributed over […]
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2 Million Mothers
by Charles Redding, CEO & President of MedShare In 2006 a baby named Malena was born in Ecuador. The third daughter born to a single mother in an impoverished area, Malena didn’t have access to traditional medical care as a newborn. Complications during her birth meant that she didn’t get enough oxygen to her brain. […]
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MARTA Breaks Ground on Chamblee TOD
Pictured L to R: MARTA Sr. Director of TOD Amanda Rhein, MARTA Chief-of-Staff Rukiya Thomas, Chamblee Mayor Eric Clarkson, MARTA Board Member William Floyd. Lynn Pattillo. MARTA Board Member Robert Dallas MARTA GM/CEO Keith Parker and Pattillo Real Estate COO/CFO Josh Harrison, CPA $25M “Trackside” Project Marks MARTA’s Latest Transit Oriented Development The Metropolitan Atlanta […]
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MAC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team Supports Startup Week
Startup Week came to Atlanta for a five-day celebration of our city’s entrepreneurial identity. From May 8 to May 12, hundreds of leading figures in the business community met for a series of events and activations showcasing the innovative products and services being created by our varied companies. The Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Innovation team supports […]
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Celebrate and enrich Atlanta beyond Global Service Month
Former President Jimmy Carter said it best: “The sacrifice of volunteering is a blessing; you get much more out of the work than you put in.” People volunteer for many reasons — to give back and make a difference in their communities; to positively impact a personal cause; to build or deepen relationships; to develop […]
Posted inHigher Education, Thought Leader, Uncategorized
Global Competency on the Business School Agenda
By S. Tamer Cavusgil Most of us have experienced a situation where, in a cross-cultural setting, we found the behavior of a foreign national hard to explain. We perceived this behavior to be odd, unusual, or perhaps improper. We may have felt anger or frustration, or at least felt uncomfortable and awkward. These feelings might […]
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Partnership Works to Protect Burkina Faso from Meningitis A
By Pierce Nelson, vice president for communications for the CDC Foundation The thermometer nears 95 degrees at 8:00 a.m. in Laye, Burkina Faso, a small village about 20 miles from the capital city of Ouagadougou. Though the temperature will top 105 degrees today, the heat has not kept the mothers of a few dozen children […]
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NeighborWorks Week 2017: Neighbors Together, Addressing Safety
Each June, NeighborWorks America and its network of local organizations mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers, business people, neighbors, friends and local and national elected and civic leaders in a week of neighborhood change and awareness. As a NeighborWorks network member, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP) will convene neighborhood leaders from throughout metro Atlanta for a special day of creating opportunities to improve neighborhood safety and build more collaborative community-police relationships.
Posted inFinancial Inclusion, Thought Leader, Uncategorized
Ending Income Inequality and Growing the Middle Class
By Operation HOPE, Inc. Despite decades of public and private sector intervention, poverty and inequality remain entrenched in the U.S. and other developed countries. Reduction in poverty rates have been hampered by rising income inequality, which can constrain economic growth and increase financial instability. At the Hope Global Forums 2017 Annual Meeting held in Atlanta […]
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Hunger Never Takes a Break!
Why Child Nutrition Programs are Important Many parents are looking forward to the end of the school year and the memories they’ll make with their children this summer. But parents of the one in four Georgia children who face food insecurity see the upcoming break in classes through a different lens—the end of the school […]
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ATL Tour promotes region’s diversity and innovation in healthcare technology
Photo: The ATL Tour wraps up at the Porsche Experience Center By Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, President and Dean, Morehouse School of Medicine Last month, the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Bioscience Leadership Council launched the first ATL Tour – an event series spread across two days that sought to tell the story of Atlanta’s healthcare ecosystem […]
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The Importance of Parks and Trails to Our Health
John A. Steward, M.P.H. John A. Steward, R.E.H.S., MPH, has been a member of the faculty of the School of Public Health of Georgia State University since 2006, and manages the Partnership for Urban Health Research, a university-wide initiative to encourage research into the health of people in urban settings. He has been a registered […]
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First Annual Bill Foege Global Health Award To Be Presented to Rotary International and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in June
By Martin Smith, Director of Marketing MAP International On June 11, 2017, MAP International and the Atlanta global health community will launch the annual Bill Foege Global Health Awards. Created in honor of Dr. Bill Foege, a folk hero in the global health community, the annual award will recognize people and organizations who contribute substantially […]
Posted inPhilanthropy, Thought Leader, Uncategorized
Do you know how many children in your community face hunger?
Did you know that more than 350,000 kids are at risk of going without one or more meals this summer? That means 1 in five kids will face hunger when school’s out later this month.
Posted inHigher Education, Thought Leader, Uncategorized
Could Medicaid Expansion Be a Boost to Rural Georgia’s Ailing Economy?
By Carolyn Bourdeaux and Peter Bluestone With the election of Donald Trump as president, the plight of rural America has taken on increased prominence. A September 2016 report by the Center for State and Local Finance estimated that as of 2014 rural areas in Georgia had 58,000 fewer jobs than they had in 2007 (around […]
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More Than Just a Pretty Place: Landscaping to Provide Ecosystem Services
By Brian Williams, Forest Restoration Manager, Trees Atlanta Atlanta is in a period of rapid redevelopment and infill, and as the value of property increases, so do the performance demands we need to put on that property. As we densify, we lose the forest fragments, edge trees, undeveloped lots, and other forgotten spaces that previously […]
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Following Years of Conflict, Central African Republic Resumes Program to Eliminate Trachoma
Photo: During a recent mass drug administration in the Central African Republic, children receive antibiotic for the prevention and treatment of trachoma. By Genevieve LaCon, MPH, senior program associate, The Task Force for Global Health Six months into my position at The Task Force for Global Health’s International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), I had the opportunity […]
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100 Years of Service Celebrated with $1 Million to Atlanta Nonprofits
The Junior League of Atlanta Celebrates Centennial Anniversary with Grant Donation to Area Organizations To celebrate 100 years of service to the Atlanta community, The Junior League of Atlanta, Inc (JLA) announced today three Centennial Grants to local nonprofits totaling $1 million and targeted to assist residents struggling through food insecurity, generational poverty and the […]
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Powering the Economic Energy of Next-Gen Entrepreneurs
By John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc. About 40% of American students say they plan to start a business and/or invent something that will change the world. Asia Thurmon, a 10th grader at Arabia Mountain High School in Lithonia, and owner and founder of EZ Party Pack, is one such next-gen […]
