By Guest Columnist TODD ELLIS, DHA, principal in KPMG’s Health and Government Solutions practice Healthcare and access to medical resources is top of mind for many these days. Whether it’s related to the COVID-19 pandemic, health ...
The goBeyondProfit business alliance to advance corporate generosity named Monday the Gwinnett County-based owner of Dollywood, Callaway Gardens and other attractions as winner of the 2022 Champion Award.
By Guest Columnist SARA PATENAUDE, chair of the Coalition for a Diverse DeKalb On a recent freezing night in January, two unhoused residents found refuge in DeKalb County Fire Station No. 3, located in Avondale Estates. ...
The Atlanta City Council has authorized airport vendors to raise prices in an effort to boost their profits, and handed out more than $400,000 to civic groups around the city.
Oakland Cemetery is embarking on its largest rehabilitation program in memory. The $12.5 million project is to begin Tuesday, with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms scheduled to lead a ceremonial groundbreaking at the 1899 Bell ...
100 Black Men of Atlanta has been named the "2020 Large Chapter of the Year" by the national organization, 100 Black Men of America, for its leadership in four focus areas that continued despite the ...
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 ...
The food and toiletries ICNA Relief plans to distribute to the homeless Monday in Downtown Atlanta represent the service organization’s recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and with it the chance to add to ...
The new executive director of the Historic Oakland Foundation plans for the organization to take a larger role, and increase its diversity, as it joins in the city’s efforts to interpret Atlanta’s place in the ...
The life stories of wood carvers can be as curious as their artworks. Such is the case with 114 woodcarvings now in the permanent collection of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art.
By Guest Columnist JOE HUDSON, trailblazing Black business advocate, mentor and coach Today is the day that the Black business community needs to begin to step into city/community leadership roles. And, now is the time to ...
At a COVID-sized ceremony Wednesday morning, 18 organizations are to be honored in a tree planting ceremony to recognize their work to lift up and sustain residents in hardscrabble neighborhoods west of the Mercedes Benz ...
A new report on equity in Atlanta’s philanthropic community provides both a snapshot of which agencies received COVID relief funding, and a conversation with Black women who lead organizations that, as a group, the study ...
As Atlanta’s understaffed trash collection service struggles to pick up waste under the extra burden of COVID-19, volunteers are picking up debris in neighborhoods. The latest effort cleaned a stretch of Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
By Guest Columnist FRANK FERNANDEZ, president/CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The world has changed. Twice. I’ve heard dozens of variations on this theme over the last five months since the pandemics of COVID-19 ...
Rural Georgia is at risk of getting left even further behind the state’s populated regions amid the pandemic. One key factor is that many philanthropies won’t donate to local groups that can’t produce audited statements ...
Residents of the hard-hit Grove Park neighborhood on Friday were among the first to receive meals prepared and delivered by Mercedes Benz USA as part of its new program to deliver food and help other ...
The Chattahoochee Nature Center is conducting a capital campaign that is to be one of many gauges of the region’s philanthropic capacity as the economy responds to the pandemic of the coronavirus.
By Bradley Roberts, Content Manager Try to picture this for a second. You’re peering out over an 18-story building — your heart rate increases and the blood rushes to your face as you’re faced with ...
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