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Achieve Atlanta receives $8 million gift from MacKenzie Scott
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is investing $8 million to support Achieve Atlanta’s efforts to help students with the Atlanta Public Schools to have access to post-secondary education.
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For its 70th year celebration, Tull Foundation makes $700,000 gift to Achieve Atlanta
The Atlanta-based Tull Charitable Foundation wanted to do something special to celebrate its 70th anniversary.
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Reporter’s Notebook: What’s going on with your 63,600 new neighbors
It wouldn’t take many more people to fill Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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Achieve Atlanta and APS receive $622,000 from Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a total of $622,000 in grants to Achieve Atlanta and the Atlanta Public Schools to support their efforts for college success.
One grant for $532,000 will go to the Network for School Improvement. That will enable Achieve Atlanta to work with the APS data team to build a technical platform that will allow students to identify good “match and fit” colleges while they are in high school.
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Column: Friendship Force launches 40th anniversary campaign
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on June 23, 2017
Atlanta-based Friendship Force International is celebrating its 40th anniversary by launching a $1 million fundraising campaign.
Friendship Force is a pioneer in promoting global understanding through the citizen homestay experience. Its 40th anniversary campaign will seek to develop new initiatives to involve more people to travel with a purpose to create a more peaceful world.
