By Alicia Philipp, president, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta What do a generous family, a trusted financial advisor and Atlanta’s beloved, annual Dragon Con have in common with Superman and Batman? Each of them has a superpower that lifts our region to greater positive impact through philanthropy! Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta recently published our […]
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High Risk, High Return? Perhaps Not: Cracking the Beta Anomaly of the Stock Market
By Scott Murray If you invest in high-risk stocks, you should expect, on average and in the long run, higher returns than if you invest in low-risk stocks, right? That’s what financial economic theory tells us, but when we looked at data on stock returns from 1963-2012, we found that portfolios containing high-risk stocks generate […]
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Dentons appoints Atlanta policy professionals to global and local leadership posts
Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, today announces the elevation of members of its award-winning Public Policy practice to leadership positions. Eric Tanenblatt, former chief of staff to then-Governor Sonny Perdue (R-GA), now US Secretary of Agriculture under President Donald Trump, and longtime strategist who served in three Republican presidential administrations, has been named chair […]
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How Historical Disease Detectives Are Solving Mysteries of the 1918 Flu
One hundred years ago, a novel pandemic influenza virus spread rapidly around the world. It killed about 1 to 2 percent of the human population, primarily young and often healthy adults. The centennial of the 1918 pandemic is a good time to take stock of how far the world has come since this historic health […]
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Impact: Ecuador
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Each year MedShare organizes an Impact Trip to a country we serve as a way to give Board members, staff, donors, potential donors, and supporters a way to see first-hand the impact of our work and to evaluate current healthcare conditions. Each year we leave amazed by the impact […]
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Building Resilient Communities for Children and Youth
Did you know that 48.3 million Americans are living with a mental health condition? It’s not just strangers, either. Chances are it is someone close to you: a family member or a colleague. Possibly, even you. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and thousands of organizations – including United Way of Greater Atlanta – are […]
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Maximizing the Moment: Regional Action on Affordable Housing
Metro Atlanta is having a watershed moment. At no time in recent history have we seen more conversations about housing affordability than are occurring right now. Scarcity of housing stock, the predominance of low-income families that are housing-cost burdened, alarming levels of evictions, displacement and gentrification, rising rental rates, the loss of affordable units due […]
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We’ve Come a Long Way — What’s Next?
George Dusenbury, Executive Director, The Trust for Public Land in Georgia Where will you spend the sunny, warm days of spring? I hope you will visit Atlanta’s iconic historic sites, relax in your neighborhood park or bike on the trails that traverse our city. Those amazing public spaces are the backdrop of our lives. Have […]
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The Money Follows the Person Program Aids Quality of Life for Georgians With Disabilities
By Kristi Fuller, Georgia Health Policy Center As a single mother of two young girls, Michelle found herself in a nursing facility after suffering from a brain-stem stroke which led to loss of speech and quadriplegia. “No one belongs in a nursing facility,” Michelle* said, “especially not at 34 years old. These are good people […]
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GoATL Fund: New impact investment fund leverages philanthropy in new ways
By Mark Crosswell, managing director for impact investing, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta In the past, traditional philanthropy has always supported nonprofit organizations by way of grants, or outright gifts. Yet even with that essential flow of funding, our communities continue to face the same decades-old challenges. Now, the emergence of a new stream of […]
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It’s time to Silence the Growl!
More than 350,000 kids across Greater Atlanta are at risk of going without one or more meals this summer. You can change that by saying, “Lunch is on me!” We’re kicking off our fifth annual Silence the Growl – a campaign to fight summer hunger among children who receive federally funded free and reduced meals […]
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ARC & Georgia Tech Partner to Help Communities Outside Atlanta’s Urban Core Get ‘Smart’
Think of the phrase “smart community.” You likely envision transportation technology in the big city—self-driving cars, or vehicles like fire trucks and city buses zooming through multi-lane intersections without once hitting a red light, thanks to powerful technology connecting them to the infrastructure they travel through. But there’s a lot more to the potential of […]
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Uniting for Health Innovation Debuts: After 50 Years of Service, PAHO Foundation Refreshes to Deliver Health Solutions for the 21st Century
By Jennie Ward-Robinson, PhD, President & CEO, Uniting for Health Innovation As we near the end of the first decade of the 21st century, we can clearly see that while a host of medical triumphs have led to longer, healthier lives, there is certainly much work to be done. Illnesses like obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease seem […]
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Youth Employment Efforts in Atlanta
By Che Watkins, Center for Working Families Atlanta has an estimated 78,000 youth ages 16 – 24 that are not in school or employed for a variety of reasons. Research has continued to show the importance of engaging these young adults sooner rather than later to show them the various options available to them. Most are […]
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Parks + the Resilient City Revisited
By Michael Halicki, Park Pride’s Executive Director Disruptive events – both man-made and natural – have become the norm. We need only look at the last year in Atlanta to know this is true: heat waves, snowstorms, floods, hurricanes, water main breaks, an interstate collapse, traffic gridlock, and most recently, a cyber-security meltdown. It is […]
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World Meningitis Day 2018: Eliminating Epidemics of Meningococcal A Meningitis
By Catherine Zilber Meningitis is a deadly infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. One particular bacteria, Neisseria meningitides, is the culprit of meningococcal meningitis and features different strains—A, C, W, X and Y. Meningococcal meningitis specifically targets the lining of the brain to cause a variety of health issues ranging from […]
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How to incorporate charitable planning into your professional practice: Call for applications now open
By Ali Gant, gift planning officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Are you a financial, legal, wealth management or accounting professional who wants to learn more about guiding your clients on a path to greater philanthropy? Then PALI is for you! The Philanthropic Advisor Leadership Institute (PALI) is now accepting applications for its ninth class […]
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Welfare Reform Needs Reforming to Move Georgia Families Out of Poverty
By Fred Brooks In 1996, the federal government radically reformed welfare, including cash aid now called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), with the goals of reducing poverty and “helping needy families achieve self-sufficiency.” Reform policies are one thing, but actual change is another. In 2016, I conducted a study in Georgia with a sample […]
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Empowering Nonprofit Innovators to Accelerate Solutions
At Gas South, our core business is providing natural gas service to customers in the southeastern United States, but every day we strive to stay true to our purpose of being a fuel for good. One important aspect of this purpose is our pledge to give back 5% of our profits to organizations that help […]
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Collaboration is the Key to a Healthy World
by Tamara Barker, UPS Chief Sustainability Officer From our global headquarters in Sandy Springs, we can now see the traffic on 400. Although our LEED Gold-certified campus includes 33 acres of woods, when a wide swath of trees along the highway easement was cleared this past winter, our view changed radically. It’s a reminder of how […]
