Atlanta Music Project
Music education starts with hitting the right notes. It can lead to so much more, according to the…
Author: Candice Dyer
Georgia Pick & Bow
The Georgia Pick & Bow Traditional Music Program does more than…
Be Someone
When he was 13, Orrin Hudson was in and out of foster care. Lacking direction, he was a member of a gang and was headed for trouble. Difference Maker: Orrin Hudson, founder of the nonprofit Be Someone,…
Quinlan Visual Arts Center
The Quinlan Visual Arts Center, the cultural heart of Gainesville, has been inspiring creativity since 1946. …
TurningPoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation
Jill Binkley survived breast cancer twice. A double mastectomy left her shoulders stiff, though, and limited her range…
Habersham History
The Digitize Habersham website, created by Habersham Education & Research, is a historian’s…
Avondale Estates Garden Club
“We’re not just a bunch of little old white ladies,” says Patricia Calcagno, president of the Avondale…
Side By Side Brain Injury Clubhouse
Side By Side Brain Injury Clubhouse is celebrating 25 years of service. “There was a gap…
Clifton Sanctuary and Joe’s Place
Joe Coppage was a beloved Lake Claire fixture who struggled with schizophrenia in the 1970s and ’80s. His neighbors allowed him to sleep on their porches, which is where he seemed the most comfortable. His standard answer when asked if…
The Georgia First Amendment Foundation
The Georgia First Amendment Foundation has been fostering transparency and advocating free expression across…
Waypoint Ministry
It does not happen overnight. Waypoint Ministry takes a holistic, comprehensive, long-term approach to treating men who…
The Woodruff Arts Center
Now would be a good time to toast the arts with a cold bottle of Coca-Cola. The Woodruff…
The Holly Theater in Dahlonega
The historic Holly Theater opened its doors in Dahlonega in 1948, not long after the end…
Murphy-Harpst
He was a “hard case.” Only 13, the boy had been shuffled among more than 40 residential placements, to the point where he was denied admission…
Tunnel to Towers Foundation
On 9/11, Brooklyn firefighter Stephen Siller was off duty but heard the World Trade Center was under…
The Atlanta Sound
Usher crushing it at the Super Bowl half-time show … Killer Mike handily racking up three Grammys in one night (to add to his other one) and assuming the mantle of eloquent, influential spokesman for his generation … The world’s…
Be THE Voice
Debbie Cwalina grew up with a brother who was developmentally delayed. “He was so isolated, one of those kids who sat alone…
Foundational Literacy
With some help from a local group, Dolly Parton is expanding her empire of good works into Georgia. The country legend’s Imagination Library is now working with Foundational Literacy, a nonprofit based in Cleveland, in the Northeast Georgia mountains, to…
The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
Antisemitic incidents in the United States, including some in Georgia, surged by about 400% immediately after war…
Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery
The 1990s were a time of creative ferment in Atlanta. The 1996 Olympics put the city on the world stage, and arts leaders wanted to prove it could compete with other metropolitan scenes. William Lawless says he and his friends,…
VOX ATL: Giving Teens A Voice
In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier that schools may restrict what is published in student newspapers. Inspired by that…
Scoutreach
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) offers opportunities for personal growth, civic activism…
Georgia & Florida Trail Inc.
When a railroad abandons its tracks, it leaves behind a perfect multiuse trail from point A to point B. The grades are gentle, and there are design features that are built in like bridges and overpasses that are easy to…
Center of Culture
The Sautee Nacoochee Cultural Center started as a school that was built in 1928. The institution closed and fell into disrepair, but it gained a vibrant new…
A Beloved Event
The “Beloved Benefit” is a one-of-a-kind music extravaganza that strives to bring together corporate investors with underserved communities. Conceived by Chick-fil-A chairman Dan Cathy, who was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a “beloved community,” the benefit is…
Healing Herds
Bar Cocherell was downsizing for a move across the country, but she faced a unique challenge: finding a home for Goose, her miniature donkey. Fortunately, a new nonprofit sanctuary, Healing Herds, had just opened in Dahlonega. …
Ahmaud Arbery Foundation
Ahmaud Arbery – “Maud” to his friends – liked to jog to clear his head. But when the 25-year-old was murdered in a racially motivated hate crime while jogging in Glynn County in 2020, Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, channeled her…
Organizations: Northeast Georgia History Center
The Northeast Georgia History Center works to make the past come alive with interactive, family-friendly exhibits and programming. “We don’t just throw out a bunch of dry names and dates,” says interim executive director Libba Beaucham. “We use the ‘living…
Organizations: Judith Alexander Foundation
In 1978, she opened the Alexander Gallery, the first Atlanta gallery to display Southern folk art, which introduced the world to an array of vibrant, previously undiscovered…
Organization: Prevent Child Abuse Georgia
Georgia ranked 38th in the nation for child well-being in 2020. Prevent Child Abuse (PCA) Georgia aims to head off problems before they start by strengthening families and inspiring community action. “We hope we can teach people to be the…
Organizations: Simple Needs GA
“Other groups are doing great work with food, housing and employment, but that’s not what we do,” says Brenda Rhodes, founder and president of Simple Needs GA, a Marietta nonprofit serving Cobb County. “We try to take care of things…
Organizations: Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative
For more than 10 millennia before White settlers arrived in 1823, various groups of indigenous people occupied the land along the Ocmulgee River in Georgia. They built seven mounds and left behind at least 3 million artifacts. This year, the…
Organizations: Society of St. Vincent de Paul
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP) began in 1833 in Paris. Antoine Frédéric Ozanam, a student at the Sorbonne, was appalled at the poverty he saw. He and his friends decided to put their Catholic faith into hands-on…
Organizations: Maximus Janton Foundation
Maximus Janton was born with Costello Syndrome, a very rare condition that affects an estimated 200 to 300 people worldwide and causes developmental delays. That diagnosis, though, did not stop him from clapping along – loudly – to music and…
Organizations: Pets Are Loving Support
In the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis, many people with the virus found themselves ostracized, with dwindling resources. Forced to make hard decisions, some went without food to give their suppers to their dog or cat. To address this…
Organizations: Widow’s Oil Ministry
Pam Otts’s soldier son brought home a buddy who had lost a leg in Afghanistan. Otts couldn’t help noticing that farm life, on her pastoral spread in Dublin, had a healing effect on the young man. “Once you see how…
Organizations: Refcode
Computer coders can write their ticket to the American dream of prosperity and success. Refcode, a Clarkston-based nonprofit, specializes in helping refugees and immigrants learn the ins and outs of coding and software engineering tools as a path to financial…
Organizations: Common Good Atlanta
Georgia has one of the nation’s highest incarceration rates. In 2008, Sarah Higinbotham, a doctoral candidate at Georgia State University, wanted to teach a literature class inside a prison and was surprised to learn that no program of that kind…
Organizations: Whispering Angels Youth Ranch
“Horses just may be the most intuitive creatures on the face of the earth,” says Marie Allen, cofounder and CEO of the faith-based nonprofit in northern Hall County. “To see the kids’ little egos when they’re chosen by a 1,000-pound…
Organizations: Skyland Trail
In the early 1980s, Atlanta offered few mental health resources to help people make the pivotal transition from inpatient care to reintegration into the community. West Lumber Company helped purchase an old apartment building for that use, which launched Skyland…
Organizations: Prom Dress Fairy
For many girls, the Cinderella magic of a perfect ball gown for a formal occasion seems out of reach. Enter the “Prom Dress Fairy,” aka Imani Marley-Husbands, who is known for giving away formal wear to whomever needs it. PDF…
Organizations: Furkids
Metro Atlanta’s Furkids is not your typical animal shelter. The Cumming nonprofit, Georgia’s largest no-kill animal shelter, is a mostly cage-free destination for visitors seeking pets or pet services – or for anyone who just wants to spend time with…
Organizations: Aim to Be3
Special-needs students who graduate from high school often face a precarious future. With limited abilities to interact with other members of their community and receive specially tailored instruction, these adults and their families can become isolated from the rest of…
Organizations: Ian’s Friends Foundation
When Ian Yagoda was two, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. His parents, Phil and Cheryl Yagoda, frantically did some research and encountered some stark statistics. Less than 4% of federal funding is allocated to studying children’s cancers…
Organizations: Feeding the Valley
Before the pandemic, an estimated one in five Georgians was designated “food insecure.” Those numbers exploded by 35% in the time of COVID-19, says Frank Sheppard, president and CEO of Feeding the Valley, a Columbus-based nonprofit food bank that opened…
Organizations: Union Mission
Established in 1937, Union Mission has grown from a modest soup kitchen and overnight shelter into one of the leading nonprofits serving people facing homelessness in Savannah. “Our objective is partnering with people to end their homelessness through housing and…
Organizations: Frank Hamilton School
The study of music benefits learners of all ages, according to the Frank Hamilton School. The nonprofit, which recently opened its doors in Decatur’s Legacy Park, offers a variety of classes in folk, jazz and blues. You can also take…
Organizations: Blue Ridge Parade of Homes
A consortium of construction companies is building a legacy of education, along with some beautiful houses. The annual Blue Ridge Parade of Homes, scheduled for Oct. 8 through 10, raises funds for scholarships for local students on a vocational track.…
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