Photo above: Featuring artist, Chris Jones. Photo by Ish Holmes By Jessyca Holland, Executive Director, C4 Atlanta Do you know an artist? Maybe a friend or a cousin? Do you remember when a song expressed in verse and music what you could never express in words alone? Do you ever think about the power behind the iconic images […]
Tag: Atlanta Regional Commission
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Regional Arts Leadership: An Investment Worth the Price
By Doug Hooker, Executive Director of the Atlanta Regional CommissionArts and culture are both an important asset and a critical sector for metro Atlanta. For one, as a region we certainly benefit from the economic impact of both commercial and nonprofit arts. The nonprofit arts sector alone has a $719 million annual financial impact and […]
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New Year brings challenge and opportunity
By Alicia Philipp, president, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The New Year is traditionally a time for reflection, for looking at lessons from the past and making goals for the future. This year, I see two huge issues looming that mark both challenge and opportunity for our region. The first issue is how nonprofits will […]
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Recognizing the economic value of the arts in Atlanta
By Tom Cunningham, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Metro Atlanta Chamber Last month the Atlanta Regional Commission produced a Forum on the Arts and Economic Prosperity. The event focused on the most recent in a series of reports produced by the American for the Arts organization that attempts to document the economic contribution of […]
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Welcome to the Stage
By Doug Shipman, President and CEO of The Woodruff Arts Center Welcome to the Arts Community! That phrase can be applied in many different ways: it’s a welcome that has been extended to me many times over the past few months since I became CEO of The Woodruff Arts Center. A hearty welcome should certainly […]
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Pursuing Resiliency on a Regional Scale
By George Dusenbury, Trust for Public Land A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending the release of the City of Atlanta’s Resiliency Strategy. The City is to be congratulated for being named one of the world’s 100 Resilient Cities, and for having Otis Rolley of the Rockefeller Foundation calling Atlanta’s Resiliency […]
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TransFormation Alliance picks Odetta MacLeish-White as its first executive
The push for greater equity in Atlanta received a boost with the naming of Odetta MacLeish-White as the first managing director of the TransFormation Alliance.
The Alliance is a collaboration of metro Atlanta organizations aiming to develop thriving, mixed-income communities anchored by transit – and ensuring that those investments are available to all residents.
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Metro Atlanta population grows by more than 78,000
The 10 counties of metro Atlanta together have absorbed enough new residents to fill a good-sized city in just a year, according to a new estimate.
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Metro Atlanta Chamber’s supply chain council targets digital transformation
Photo: The Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Supply Chain Leadership Council convenes to discuss digital transformations in Atlanta. This is the second in a series of posts on the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s council groups. Learn more about the Chamber’s work by exploring these leadership councils and the impact they have on the metro region. The previous entry […]
