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Plans to host Nobel Summit in Atlanta face new challenges

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Atlanta’s prospects of hosting the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in November have become even more challenging as the deadline to present a solution to the international body has been extended until May 13.

Further complicating an already messy situation, three members resigned Friday from the board of Yunus Creative Labs – the entity that has been in charge of putting on the Summit. The three board members were Laura Turner Seydel, who had been chairing the host committee for the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit; Jason Carter, the grandson of 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jimmy Carter; and Willis Potts, former chairman of the Georgia Board of Regents.

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Atlanta’s roller derby moms lean in for real

by Michelle Hiskey

Maisha “Queen Loseyateefa” Polite of Dunwoody, Shannon “Deathskull” Nowlan and Michelle “Hate Ashbury” Brattain were moms who felt like something was missing in their lives. Each woman discovered her alter ego on wheels, relying on core strength, teamwork and assertiveness. They will celebrate Mother’s Day by competing in roller derby with the Atlanta Rollergirls as their daughters (who are learning the sport) and moms cheer on their fearlessness and drive. For these women, the only way to circle the track is to lean in.

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Column: ToolBank nails another $1 million Stanley Black & Decker gift

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By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on April 24, 2015

Atlanta-based ToolBank USA’s top donor — Stanley Black & Decker — has just renewed its support for a second $1 million gift.

The gift will be fulfilled over the next three years. The first $1 million gift was fulfilled over five years, which makes the current gift the largest ever received since ToolBank USA was founded in 2008 to provide tools used by charities.

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The BeltLine as a resource for redressing Atlanta’s inequity

by Jason Marshall

By Guest Columnist MICHAEL DOBBINS, professor of the practice at Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning, and former Atlanta planning commissioner

Atlanta has the opportunity and the means to begin to attack the most shameful and enduring blemish on its record among U.S. cities: Greatest wealth disparity (the GINI index) and least chance for low wealth families to climb out of poverty (Harvard-Berkeley study).

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Column: Pete McTier passes Woodruff Foundation torch to Larry Gellerstedt

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By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on April 10, 2015

The most powerful board in metro Atlanta today is arguably the one held by the five trustees of the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation — the largest philanthropy entity in the state.

It is a foundation that shuns the spotlight, but this week, it had a rare occurrence — a change among its trustees.

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Stephanie Stuckey Benfield named new director of sustainability for the City of Atlanta

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The City of Atlanta has a new director of the Office of Sustainability.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed sent out an announcement Thursday afternoon that said he had appointed Stephanie Stuckey Benfield as the new director of the office.

Benfield, a long time environmental advocate and a former state representative from DeKalb County, most recently has been serving as the executive director of Green Law, an environmentally-oriented law firm.

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What a strange session it’s been when it comes to education

by Jason Marshall

By Guest Columnist DANA RICKMAN, director for policy and research at the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education

The 2015 Georgia legislative session came to an end at midnight (or closely thereafter) on Thursday, April 2. For 40 legislative days our elected senators and representatives toiled over which bills to consider, amend, ignore, combine, kill or pass.

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McKenna Long joining forces with world’s largest law firm – Dentons

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The Atlanta Based McKenna Long & Aldridge is combining with the world’s largest law firm – Dentons.

It is a combination that the key players of both McKenna and Denton believe will set the formula of how law firms will operate in the future. They will be global enterprises with “polycentric” home offices.

“We saw the opportunity to become part of their vision for the next generation law firm and to better serve our clients – locally, nationally and internationally,” said Jeff Haidet, who is chairman of McKenna Long and will become co-CEO of Dentons US.

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Clockwork session concludes with flouting of the clock

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There’s nothing in the state Constitution which specifically says the legislature has to adjourn by midnight of its 40th day of business, but it’s a tradition observed “for time eternal,” as a disapproving House Speaker David Ralston said after learning the Senate was prepared to ignore the clock if necessary to have its last vote. Last Friday night, that tradition was ignored.

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The Fabulous Fox should be a blueprint for how Atlanta must save its past

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Atlanta’s greatest preservation victory happened 40 years ago when a broad-based coalition of civic leaders, students, developers, preservationists, elected officials and media outlets rallied behind the “Save the Fox” movement.

The Fox has been the pinnacle of Atlanta’s preservation movement – a lasting symbol of what can and should be done to save our historic treasures.

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Palmetto project shows political volatility of pipelines

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As the General Assembly lumbers toward its planned conclusion, a potentially explosive political issue is taking shape to the east, along the Savannah River and the coast. Like the topic du jour in Atlanta, it involves transportation, but of gasoline, not people.

On Feb. 13, the nation’s preeminent pipeline company, Kinder Morgan, filed for a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the state Department of Transportation.

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Column: Decatur’s Task Force for Global Health expands its visibility

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By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on March 20, 2015

One of the less-known nonprofits in Georgia — the Decatur-based Task Force for Global Health — is beginning to gain some visibility.

The largest nonprofit based in Georgia is one of the leading international players in promoting global health initiatives, including partnering with other organizations to provide vaccinations to prevent numerous devastating diseases in the developing world.

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Column: Decatur’s Task Force for Global Health expands its visibility

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By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on March 20, 2015

One of the less-known nonprofits in Georgia — the Decatur-based Task Force for Global Health — is beginning to gain some visibility.

The largest nonprofit based in Georgia is one of the leading international players in promoting global health initiatives, including partnering with other organizations to provide vaccinations to prevent numerous devastating diseases in the developing world.

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Shining a spotlight on our Civil Rights history; hoping to preserve our precious past

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Riding on the bus as part of Tom Houck’s Civil Rights Tours Atlanta is sobering.

Whether it is Auburn Avenue or Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, the message is two-fold. These are sacred places. It was here in Atlanta where some of the most significant moments in U.S. history took place – the Civil Rights movement.

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Column: Falcons’ Arthur Blank says he’s keeping his Westside jobs pledge

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By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on March 13, 2015

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation recognized that the best way to trigger reinvestment in a community would be through creating job opportunities.

So when Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank declared that the revitalization of the Westside neighborhoods would be equally important as building a new stadium for professional football and soccer, it was a given that new job opportunities would be part of the solution.

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