GYF aims to improve outdoor access for underserved youth and young adults and connect them to careers in the environmental sector.
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Balser Giving Circle awards $25,000 in grants
By Christy Eckoff, managing director, philanthropic counsel, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta At the Community Foundation, making grants is an essential part of what we do. In my work, I also get to collaborate with professional advisors who are helping their clients achieve their own philanthropic goals. The Balser Professional Advisors Council’s giving circle is […]
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It Takes a Village to Make a Park
By John Ahmann, Westside Future Fund’s president and CEO Under the leadership of Executive Director Michael Halicki, Park Pride has demonstrated the power of “we” in first leading to develop the Proctor Creek North Avenue Watershed Basin: A Green Infrastructure Vision and then helping to bring that vision to life with the recent ground breaking […]
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Atlanta Audubon wins grant for garden in Washington Park, intern to study wildlife, plants
The Atlanta Audubon Society has won a national grant totaling $23,950 that it is to use for two purposes – paying an intern to work in the wildlife sanctuary program, and building a garden in historic Washington Park, Atlanta’s first greenspace dedicated to African Americans.
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The Importance of Vision
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18 By Michael Halicki, Park Pride’s Executive Director People often think of nonprofits as mission driven organizations. While mission is vital to defining what an organization does, it is the vision that defines what you aim to achieve. In these uncertain times, it is vision, not mission, […]
