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Switchboard: A place for self-reflection and meeting your anonymous neighbor

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How can we build community during a time when we feel so far apart? Lauren Russell’s solution: a community audio diary. Switchboard is open for anyone to anonymously leave a voicemail or send a text message, which is posted to their Instagram page.  Russell started Switchboard last November because she was “really curious about connecting […]

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Black-run nonprofits need support of big foundations to help them serve people

by Ivory Cloud

By Guest Columnist IVORY CLOUD, founder of Dreams of Lois, Inc.,

My name is Ivory Cloud and I am a wife, mother, educator and entrepreneur. I have been in education for nearly 20 years. I am a proud founder of the registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit Dreams of Lois, Inc. I started Dreams of Lois more than 10 years ago in honor of my mother, Lois, who died at a young age from cancer.

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Mental health, isolation: Explorations with an academic, choreographer, student leader

by David Pendered

Mental health – a survey new in June shows 50 percent of American adults say they feel isolated, and happiness is at a 50-year low. Three leaders met in a virtual town hall to share thoughts on these issues and more – Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera, renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones, and Tech student leader – and artist – Mykala Sinclair.

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In era of government scarcity, public-private partnerships bridge community needs

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By Eric Tanenblatt, Rick Jackson [Ed. note: This article first appeared in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.] Solving problems like poverty, or inequities in housing, education or healthcare, is an expensive undertaking, and the gap between what’s required and what’s actually available, especially from public resource pools, is dramatic and widening. With every passing day, the social and […]

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700 Credit Score Communities Don’t Riot

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By John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc. There has never been a riot by a 700-credit-score community in American history. Only 500-credit-score communities riot. Traditionally, these have been urban, inner-city, left behind black and brown communities, but in the current political landscape we’ve seen the fabric of civility tear in 500-credit-score […]

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Sapelo Island midwife among those honored at annual Georgia Women of Achievement induction ceremony

by Jamil Zainaldin

This week, guest columnist BETTY HOLLAN, executive director of Georgia Women of Achievement, recognizes the achievements of Sapelo Island midwife Katie Hall Underwood.

If you visited Sapelo Island from 1920 until 1968, you may have seen a strong, lean woman briskly walking from one end of the island to the other, a long seven-mile stretch, her mind set on delivering another baby into this world. Born into a family of freed slaves in 1884, Katie Hall Underwood was the last of a long line of Sapelo midwives. Her skilled hands and soothing demeanor brought generations of proud Gullah-Geechee people into the world.

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City of Atlanta has opportunity to invest in sidewalks and bicycle paths

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It’s a given. The City of Atlanta will go to voters in November to propose an additional half-penny in taxes over the next 40 years for MARTA. That tax alone initially is expected to generate more than $50 million a year.

But the City of Atlanta also has the option to ask voters whether they want to approve another half penny for five years for general transportation projects.

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Commentary: Atlanta must keep New Year’s Eve tradition alive

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The Peach Drop – the New Year’s Eve celebration at Underground Atlanta – almost didn’t happen this year because the property is being sold. It was not clear who should put on the Peach Drop – the city or the developer who is buying the property. At the 11th hour, the city decided to take it on, and thousands of people showed up, as they have for years.

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Breaking cycles of poverty: How not to cluster the poor in broken neighborhoods

by David Pendered

Metro Atlanta could be the poster child for housing policies that, intentionally or not, have concentrated lower income households in non-white neighborhoods that aren’t pleasant places. The U.S. Supreme Court and the Obama administration intend to change the way policies are implemented, and the policies themselves.

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