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Biomedical Equipment Donations Combined With Training Lead to Sustainability
By Charles Redding Medical equipment is essential for safe and effective prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. It is vital for healthcare facilities to have functioning medical equipment that is safe, reliable, and available for diagnostic procedures, therapy, treatment, and monitoring of patients. However, there continues to be a significant gap in the availability of quality,…
Supporting Measles Vaccination for Ethiopia’s Children
By Ruth O’Neill Measles is a serious and growing health threat with large and disruptive outbreaks occurring in every region of the world. Young children are especially vulnerable to measles infection and its complications which can include blindness, encephalitis, severe respiratory infections and death. While the measles vaccine has proven to be highly effective at…
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Emory’s School of Nursing receives gift to train pediatric psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners
The nation’s leading experts in pediatric health, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), have named the mental health crisis among children a national emergency. Shortages of qualified mental health professionals are at crisis levels locally, statewide, nationally, and globally. This shortage disproportionately affects the pediatric and adolescent populations, and this crisis is compounded for children…
It’s Time for Your Mid-Year Financial Check-Up
Examining where you are now is a great way to set yourself up for success in the second half of the year. It’s hard to believe but we’re somehow nearly halfway through the year, and if time seems to be flying by at lightning speed, you’re not alone. While it may feel like you just…
Creating the city we want through ‘incentive zoning’
A beautiful mature tree adorns the steep front yard of a historic home in the southwest Atlanta Pittsburgh community. The home represents so much of what we want as a city. Historic preservation. Affordability. Tree conservation. Density. Sustainable development. The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and the Atlanta Land Trust held an open house on…
Amid training center debate, huge properties at other police and fire academies have unclear fate
As the Atlanta City Council deliberates on approving millions for the controversial and under-vetted public safety training center, also under-examined is the future of other police and fire academy sites where the City has already amassed hundreds of acres of land – more than enough for the training center itself. The former police academy on…
CNN and Fox, rival siblings caught in a 24/7 loop, face problems of their own making
By Tom Baxter Last Thursday, hundreds of current and former employees of Cable News Network gathered around the big red sign outside CNN Center for a farewell photograph before the network moved its Atlanta operations back to its original Midtown location. It was a tender moment, both for the network and the city from which…
New data shows Okefenokee mining plans could release ‘carbon bomb’
The Okefenokee Swamp has an estimated 200 million tons of peat. When exposed, it emits carbon dioxide.
The geography of history — echoes beneath our feet
Atlanta cherishes its parks — and for good reason. They are a big part of what makes this city so livable and enjoyable. But have you ever wondered how those open spaces came to be? Dare we ask? Do we have the curiosity, courage and humanity to probe beneath the play spaces and dig deeper,…
The Merry Mutes
In the 1950s, a regular act at the Henry Grady Hotel was a comedy duo known for not talking. They called themselves The Merry Mutes and their deceptively simple act consisted of lip syncing to popular songs of the day. Though not as well-known as Martin and Lewis, Eric and Van did have talent to…
Atlanta Jazz Festival 2023 – Piedmont Park – Saturday afternoon May 27, 2023
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Like Schools Around the Metro Area, Goodwill of North Georgia Celebrates its 2023 Graduating Class Entering the Workforce
Goodwill of North Georgia’s main mission is to put people to work, and this year’s graduating class once again makes good on that promise. Out of the 253 graduating from Goodwill training programs, 109 have already secured employment with companies such as Amazon, Kroger, Delta Airlines, Georgia Department of Transportation, and many others. For each regional graduating…
Roswell Remembers Memorial Day Ceremony – Roswell City Hall – May 29, 2023
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Doing Things Differently for Parks
By Park Pride’s Executive Director, Michael Halicki, and Director of Communications & Policy, Rachel Maher Einstein defined “insanity” as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. For far too long, this has been the story of the chronic, longstanding underfunding of Atlanta’s park system and those who sought a higher standard…
A Season of Exploration: The Mayor’s Summer Reading Club Launches Its 11th Year
The Mayor’s Summer Reading Club (MSRC), an annual program created and coordinated by GEEARS: Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students, has launched its 11th season! On Thursday, June 1st, a host of bookish fans gathered on the lawn in front of the Woodruff Arts Center to celebrate. The crowd included at least 100 children…
Improving nonprofit staff mental health requires an organization-wide approach
By Maria Azuri, LMSW, principal, Equitable Table and Lauren Thomas Priest, MNM, program officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta This article is part two of a three-part series on nonprofits and mental health. Stress. Anxiety. Tension. Overwhelm. We’ve let our mental health go unchecked for far too long. It’s a conversation sparked during Mental Health…
Finding Home on the Westside – The Story of Shawn Watwood and Camille Monae
For Shawn Watwood, the Westside has always been home. He moved to Atlanta in 2017 to take a job with Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre, and from there began to learn about his new community by attending NPU meetings and early Transform the Westside Summit’s hosted by Westside Future Fund (WFF). Years later, and in…
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