By Lita Pardi, director, resource deployment, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta For more than 30 years, the Community Foundation has worked to strengthen the region’s nonprofits by providing a variety of resources to support effective operations and high-performing programs. To that end, the Foundation is a strong believer in general operating support grants. Operating grants […]
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State Farm partnership grows future change-makers
By Mindy Kao, program associate, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta All you need is passion to make a difference, but a few tools and know-how certainly help make an impact! In partnership with State Farm, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta is giving an energetic cohort of college students a chance to make a change […]
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Leadership Trainings Builds Stronger Arts Communities
By Lara Smith, Managing Director of Dads GaragePeek into the business world and you’ll see executive of all types enrolling in leadership training courses. Listen to the radio and you’ll inevitably hear calls to enroll in some weekend course on leadership: Leadership for Women, Leading your Sales Team, Leading other Leaders, etc. You can take […]
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A strong, engaged board of directors boosts nonprofit effectiveness
By Alicia Philipp, president, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta is focused on five Impact Areas, one of these is Nonprofit Effectiveness. There are many essential characteristics of highly effective nonprofits, among those is having a strong and engaged board of directors that can guide the organization and oversee critical […]
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Opening A New Chapter in Global Health
By Dave Ross, ScD, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Task Force for Global Health This month, we will move into a larger headquarters in downtown Decatur to meet the growing needs of our programs and launch new initiatives to solve large-scale health problems. Due to the success of our programs, we have been growing at […]
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Who Are the Artists in Your Neighborhood?
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 […]
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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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New collaborative directs funding to fight HIV/AIDS in the South
By Dan Williams, program officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Friday, December 1, marked the 29th anniversary of World AIDS Day, a day we pause to lend support to people living with HIV and to remember those who have died from AIDS. Over 29 years we have seen great progress in the fight against HIV, […]
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Nonprofits stand to lose billions as a result of federal tax reform. Take action!
Congress is currently working to enact a sweeping federal tax reform package before Christmas this year. And charities stand to be among the losers of the reform package. Both the House and Senate versions of tax reform incorporate proposals to double the standard deduction. While this may benefit some low and middle-income taxpayers, it would […]
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Georgia-based MAP International Recognized For Excellence
A commitment to accountability and transparency has paid off for Georgia-based MAP International (www.map.org) as the organization has earned Charity Navigator’s perfect score of “100” and its fifth consecutive four-star rating. “Charity Navigator is a trusted source used by donors who want to ensure their gifts are being used as efficiently as possible,” said Steve Stirling, […]
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Mudslides in Sierra Leone
by Charles Redding, CEO and President of MedShare During the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014, MedShare sent more than $2.4 million worth of medical aid to Sierra Leone. Healthcare professionals in the country were fighting for the lives of their patients without the tools they needed to save them – until medical donations through […]
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Column: American Heart Association’s Atlanta director gets national role
By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on April 22, 2016
Michael Privette, who has served as the executive director of the American Heart Association’s Atlanta division for the past five years, is being promoted to a national role – as AHA’s nation director of the Go Red for Women Campaign – beginning July 1.
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Column: Arthritis Foundation reintroducing itself to Atlanta
By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on April 1, 2016
Back in the 1970s, the Arthritis Foundation was one of the first national nonprofits to move it headquarters from New York City to Atlanta.
Now – four decades later – the Arthritis Foundation wants to become much better known in the Atlanta community. The Foundation recently sold its building on West Peachtree Street and moved a couple of blocks away to 1355 Peachtree St., where it is leasing one floor.
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Commentary: Ted Turner is a cornerstone of UN philanthropy
When Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner gave $1 billion in 1997 to establish the U.N. Foundation, it broke the mold of major philanthropic contributions.
Nearly 20 years later – Turner received the Global Philanthropist Award from UNICEF’s Southeast region at its Children First event on March 30.
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Children, families at center of new Casey Foundation report on Atlanta’s future
A new report, this one by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, puts children and families at the center of findings that reaffirm I-20 as the dividing line of household wealth in Atlanta.
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Atlanta Habitat for Humanity taps BeltLine’s Lisa Gordon as president/CEO
Lisa Gordon, who helped navigate the Atlanta BeltLine through the waning days of the great recession, will now serve Atlanta Habitat for Humanity as president/CEO, habitat’s board announced Tuesday
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On the right side of history — how a modest experiment in interracial community leaves a lasting impression on Habitat for Humanity
Clarence Jordan, from a distinguished Georgia family of politicians and community leaders, began a career in the 1930s as a Baptist minister. A rising star, he had a reputation for distinction that was spreading throughout the state and the South. With time, any pulpit or university appointment could be his.
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Gutsy voices of teen writers help VOX survive
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that schools could censor student newspapers, teenagers responded by creating their own uncensored and independent newspapers. Atlanta became home to VOX—Latin for “voice.”
Many of these papers folded in an era of massive cutbacks in professional journalism. But against those odds, VOX Teen Communications celebrated its 20th anniversary Saturday. Through VOX, many students launched successful college and professional careers in fields beyond journalism, earning the Gates Millenium scholarship among other awards.
In those short hours and on the weekends, VOX attracted students from all over the metro Atlanta area, who were mentored by professional journalists and other advisers. They reported, edited, photographed and designed a newspaper that publishes five times a year and a website www.voxteencommunications.org, that updates continuously, filled with work not likely to be deemed suitable by most high school administrators. Some of it is truly groundbreaking.
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Coke meets with human rights advocates who seek new practices for giving, diversity in Brazil
The Coca-Cola Co. has agreed to continue discussions with an Atlanta-based human rights group, led by veteran advocate Joe Beasley, to consider expanding Coke’s philanthropic and diversity practices in Brazil, advocates said Sunday.
Top Coke officials met with the advocates Friday and agreed to convene a tele-conference this week, advocates said Sunday. The Coke representatives who attended Friday’s meeting reportedly included Alexander Cummings, chief administrative officer, and Lisa Borders, chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation. Coke did not respond to a request for comment that was submitted Friday.
“We’re calling for Coke to have a reciprocal relationship with its most loyal consumers in Brazil,” Beasley said in a statement, referring to Brazil’s population of nearly 100 million Afro-descendants.
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PATH Foundation named in Ga. 400 trail, latest of its $55 million projects
After building more than 180 miles of trails in Georgia, the PATH Foundation is now memorialized in the name of a future trail in Atlanta – PATH400 is the name of the trail that’s to run alongside and beneath Ga. 400.
When the trail’s complete, it will join a trail network valued at $55.5 million that PATH has completed and transferred to local governments, according to PATH’s most recent Form 990, the IRS tax return filed by non-profit organizations.
Despite the size of this contribution to public greenways, or perhaps because of it, the PATH Foundation has become such a fixture in metro Atlanta since it was formed in 1991 that it’s possible to forget that it is still a relatively small organization in the big world of non-profits.
