By John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc. True power in this world comes from economic independence. Nobody can give it to you; you must gain it yourself. The challenge with this truth is that the supermajority of people here in the United States and around the world – the “invisible class,” […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate profiles: District 1
In one of the more crowded races for Atlanta City Council this year, five folks including the incumbent are looking for votes in parts of southeast Atlanta from Downtown to Lakewood.
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Carla Smith
Some comments have been edited for brevity and clarity. Voters first sent incumbent Carla Smith to Atlanta City Council to represent District 1 in 2001. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for District 1? A: Quality of life. For me, quality of life is all-encompassing. It is everything because one of the problems […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Ron Aribo
Ron Aribo is an operations officer in the U.S. Army Reserves and is an analyst for the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Atlanta City Council would be his first elected office. He spoke to Saporta Report via email. Campaign website Q: What’s your number one concern for your district specifically? A: Equity among the public schools in […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Mo Ivory
Moriama “Mo” Ivory is a lawyer, activist and media personality making her first run for office in a bid for the Atlanta City Council District 1 seat. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for the district? A: Representation for all of the people that live in the district and not for just the […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Bill Powell
Bill Powell has worked in transportation project planning and management in several agencies and now works with governments as a federal project reviewer. The District 1 Atlanta City Council seat would be his first elected office. He spoke to the Saporta Report via email. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for your district? […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Oz Hill
After retiring from the U.S. Army, Oswald “Oz” Hill went to work as a consultant — and later as a city of Atlanta staff member — working in emergency preparedness, disaster mitigation, security planning and other areas. He’s now running for Atlanta City Council District 1 and spoke to Saporta Report via email. Campaign website […]
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Responding to disasters on many fronts
Before there was Irma, there was Harvey. Before Harvey, there was an unnamed disaster in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Though you might not have seen it on cable news, Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, experienced unrelenting rains only a few days before Harvey made landfall in Texas. Nearly 1,000 people perished and thousands more […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Bret R. Williams
Some comments have been edited for brevity and clarity. Bret Williams is a former federal prosecutor and is now in private legal practice. City Council would be the first elected post for the Virginia Highlands resident. Campaign website Q: What is your No. 1 concern for the city? A: Crime. … There are a couple […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Cory Ruth
Some comments have been edited for brevity and clarity. Cory Ruth is a partner at Mergence Global, an IT consulting firm. Atlanta City Council would be the first elected post for the Buckhead resident. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for the city? A: …If I had to choose a legacy item that […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: Matt Westmoreland
Some comments have been edited for brevity and clarity. Matt Westmoreland was elected to the Atlanta Board of Education in 2013. Before that, the Midtown resident taught at Carver High School. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for the city? A: Equity and economic mobility. …I was born and raised in Atlanta, graduated […]
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When the Water Recedes: Inequality in Disaster
By John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc. It can take up to 20 years for a city to recover from a major disaster. However, for many low- to moderate-income families affected by unexpected life events like natural disasters, the recovery never really comes. The devastation of the disaster is ongoing; pulling […]
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The Power of “We” Part 5
The Atlanta BeltLine Partnership is promoting solutions to Atlanta’s affordable housing needs via a series of articles from our public, private, philanthropic, nonprofit, and community partners who – through “The Power of We” – can help define a coordinated set of policies, programs, and resources that build and preserve affordable living opportunities for all. Recently, Enterprise Community Partners discussed the […]
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Increasing Opportunities for Children and Families in Southwest Atlanta
The Annie E. Casey Foundation We have a saying around the Annie E. Casey Foundation that kids do well when their families do well, and families do well when they live in supportive neighborhoods with strong community-based services, good jobs, affordable homes and high-quality schools. But for too many children in Atlanta, particularly children of […]
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7 ways CDC is keeping us safe from deadly diseases
The threat is real: defunding CDC puts us all in danger, in every country of the globe By: Courtney Carson, MA, Policy and Advocacy Officer, GHTC & Brandon Ball, Policy & Advocacy Officer, PATH Photo: Dr. Stephen Redd gives a tour of CDC’s Emergency Operations Center, which serves as a command center for monitoring and […]
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Making nonprofits stronger makes stronger impact
By Lita Pardi, director, resource deployment, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta In 2016, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta launched Impact Areas with measurable objectives as a way to focus our financial, partnership and advocacy investments in the Atlanta region. As a starting point for future trend analysis, we created an Impact Area dashboard that captures […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate profiles: Post 1 at large
All Atlanta voters have a say on this question in November: whether to transfer an Atlanta school board member over to City Council or opt for the candidate who’s represented all or part of the city on council for more than a decade.
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Atlanta City Council Candidate Q and A: Courtney English
Courtney English was first elected to the board of Atlanta Public Schools in 2009. In 2014, he was elected its chair. Now he’s running for Atlanta City Council’s as a citywide candidate for Post 1.
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Atlanta City Council Candidate Q and A: Michael Julian Bond
Some comments have been edited for brevity and clarity. Michael Julian Bond is running for reelection to Atlanta City Council Post 1, an at large citywide office. From 1994 to 2001, he represented parts of west and northwest Atlanta on Council. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for the city? A: I have […]
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Chief Counsel Elizabeth O’Neill named interim MARTA leader
MARTA Chief Counsel Elizabeth O’Neill will temporarily l take over leadership of the agency as it searches for a new permanent leader to replace outgoing General Manager and CEO Keith Parker.
