The percentage of women on Georgia’s public company boards has steadily increased every year. Until now, that is. Women directors make up 27.4 percent of the state’s corporate board, virtually the same as 2024, when women held 27.2 percent of director seats. The 2025 OnBoard study also showed some backsliding of key metrics. OnBoard tracks […]
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Just Launched: Georgia’s State Wildlife Action Plan
By 2035, Georgia’s landscapes may look vastly different, both in the wild and in the way we care for them. Guiding the state through the next decade of ecological stewardship is the newly released 2025–2035 Georgia State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP), a forward-looking strategy designed to conserve the state’s natural resources for both wildlife and […]
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More than tuition: Meeting the basic needs of Georgia college students
When most people think about college students, they picture vibrant campuses, dorm rooms, and academic ambition. Beneath this idealized image, many college students are quietly struggling with basic needs insecurity. By definition, basic needs insecurity is the lack of consistent access to basic needs, including food, housing, healthcare, transportation, resources, technology, and childcare. According to […]
Posted inAdrianne Murchison, Columns
Goodwill of North Georgia celebrates new specialized trainee program
Joshua Parker hopes to one day open his own HVAC business. While attending a job fair, the 31-year-old was introduced to Goodwill of North Georgia’s career services and soon discovered a training program that is helping him earn certifications and gain hands-on experience toward achieving that goal. Parker joined Goodwill’s new Certified Electric Heat Pump […]
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Atlanta Women’s Film Festival aims to empower female creatives
In the small Seven Stages theatre in Little Five Points, a group of women from across the world gathered on Sept. 24 for an evening with a little bit of everything: Strip club vampire action horror, experimental animation, a Coen Brothers-style heist comedy, and an African girls documentary. They’re all short films made by women […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Heroes Saints & Legends, Georgia Rivers Gala, Netherworld officially opens
Heroes Saints & Legends and the Wesley Woods Foundation The Wesley Woods Foundation’s annual Heroes, Saints & Legends event at Flourish on Sept. 18 honored three longtime leaders in the Atlanta region. Doug Hooker, the former executive director of the Atlanta Regional Commission, was celebrated along with his wife, Patrise Perkins-Hooker, currently Atlanta’s city attorney. […]
Posted inGlobal Health & Development
The Power of Partnership: Bridging the Gap in Healthcare Access Through Public/Private Collaboration
In today’s volatile healthcare environment, access to quality care is at even greater risk—especially for the most vulnerable among us. Charitable healthcare providers across the U.S. are under intense pressure: facing funding cuts, uncertainty around Medicaid distributions, and surging demand from patients in crisis. As these providers fight to do more with less, organizations like […]
Posted inAdrianne Murchison, Columns
UPS Impact Summit highlights power of small business
The importance of entrepreneurs and small businesses in the U.S. economy was in the spotlight Wednesday during the fourth annual UPS Impact Summit, held at the company’s headquarters in Sandy Springs. The event featured panels of UPS executives, small business owners, and civic leaders discussing both the opportunities and challenges facing entrepreneurs. UPS CEO Carol […]
Posted inHigher Education
Alumnus Leaves Entire $100M Estate to Georgia Tech
A historic $100 million bequest from the late Georgia Tech alumnus John W. Durstine will forever transform the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. The landmark gift — the largest single gift in Tech’s history — will establish endowed chairs, professorships, and faculty awards, ensuring that the Institute continues to recruit, develop, and retain […]
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Birds Georgia Announces 2025 Fall Flyway Festival: A Celebration of Birds, Native Plants, and Community
Each September, millions of migratory birds pass through Georgia on their journey south, relying on our state’s native plants for food, shelter, and rest. To highlight this important connection, Birds Georgia will host its annual Fall Flyway Festival, a month-long series of events designed to celebrate birds, native plants, and community. From guided nature walks […]
Posted inSecuring Atlanta's Future
The Surprising Power of the Arts to Boost Literacy
By ArtsNOW Literacy is a challenge across metro Atlanta, but progress is possible. Newly released Georgia Milestones data from the 2024-2025 school year shows that only 38 percent of third-grade students in the region are reading proficiently, a 3-point decrease from last year. While this reality underscores the urgency of the work ahead, it also […]
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Georgia Historical Society’s new program: Restoring Trust in American Institutions
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026, public trust in fundamental American institutions — elections, the law and the courts, the press, and our system of government itself — seems to be at an all-time low. Not a day goes by without a new allegation of election corruption, media bias, […]
Posted inDelaney Tarr
Georgia film is changing. Can industry leaders keep up?
The state of Georgia’s film industry changes depending on who you ask. The economic juggernaut is booming, according to advocates and executives who see the moment as a chance for “innovation.” Some struggling filmmakers and employees at empty production houses are a little more concerned. The so-called “Hollywood of the South” has felt the impacts […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Summer Shade Fest returns, Georgia STAND-UP honored, Blank Foundation gives
Summer Shade Festival returns to Grant Park The 23rd annual Summer Shade Festival will bring two days of free, family-friendly activities to Grant Park on Aug. 23 to 24. Presented by and benefiting the Grant Park Conservancy, the event will feature live music, an expanded artist and vintage market, children’s activities and a 5K run. […]
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Georgia State University to move forward with 148 Edgewood demolition plan
Months after a heated public hearing on the fate of Atlanta’s historic 148 Edgewood Ave. building, Georgia State University is set to move forward with its demolition plan to create a Greek Life greenspace. It’s a controversial move for the 1926 property. It was originally built by Georgia Power as a facade to store neighborhood […]
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Teaming Up For Georgia’s Pollinators
By Nikki Belmonte, Georgia Native Plant Society Step outside during this sizzling summer and you will likely see a pollinator hovering, crawling or flying around in search of food. A pollinator is any animal that helps carry pollen from one flower to another, allowing the plant to become fertilized and produce fruit and seeds. More […]
Posted inHistoric Westside
Groundwork for Change: How Integrity Home Solutions Powers Property Care, Youth Leadership, and Volunteer Impact on the Historic Westside
When it comes to revitalizing Atlanta’s historic Westside, transformation doesn’t just happen — it’s built, block by block, by those willing to roll up their sleeves and do the work. For Westside Future Fund, that work is made possible every day by a trusted partner: Integrity Home Solutions. Founded in 2019 by two brothers with […]
Posted inHigher Education
Georgia Tech Shaping Atlanta’s Future as Top Tech Hub
For Atlanta to be considered among the nation’s top tech hubs, its higher education system must play a pivotal role in unlocking its potential technological advancement and entrepreneurial investment. A study by the Boston Consulting Group revealed that increasing the number of local startups while retaining the talent graduating from Georgia Tech and other research […]
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SNAP-Ed is vital to the health of Georgia families and communities
Roughly one in eight Georgians rely on SNAP food assistance benefits to put food on the table. More than half of the roughly 1.3 million Georgia households who rely on SNAP to put food on the table have children. When a family is looking at providing healthy meals for their family on approximately $6 per […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Bathtub racing video game, Open Hand earns national accreditation, Georgia Rivers adventure scholarships
KSU students revive beloved ‘bathtub races’ as video game A quirky campus tradition is returning to Kennesaw State University — this time in digital form. Nearly 30 years after the last bathtub race at the former Southern Technical Institute, students in the College of Computing and Software Engineering are reviving the event as a fast-paced […]
