The Macon Beer Fest
Time to roll out the barrel, gents, and get a preventive health screening, where you can reward yourself with a cold one afterwards. Party with a Purpose: People enjoying the Macon Beer Fest, which also offers…
Author: Candice Dyer
Bloom
Foster families face overwhelming challenges. Bloom strives to lend dignity, warmth and convenience to stressful scenarios involving foster children. “That first day with a new family can be the most difficult of a child’s life,” says Becky Davenport, president and…
Southwest Georgia Nurse Honor Guard
For many practitioners, nursing is more than just a profession. It is a sacred calling…
Purple Pansies: A Non-profit Supporting Pancreatic Cancer Patients
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most dreaded diagnoses because it is usually caught at such a late stage that…
Canine Cellmates
Who rescues whom? It is mutual at Canine CellMates/Beyond The Bars, which pairs shelter dogs with…
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs
While Dahlonega has been a big tourism draw in Georgia over the past few decades, it has had a stubbornly high poverty rate. Booming Business: Deb Rowe, right, owner of Shenanigans Restaurant & Irish Pub and co-owner…
Circle of Hope
Resources for domestic violence were scarce in North Georgia before Circle of Hope was founded in 1987 as a grassroots effort to establish a 24-hour hotline and a support group. Volunteers spent two years remodeling a donated farmhouse, and the…
Tommy Nobis Center
Atlanta Falcons defensive star Tommy Nobis was the first player ever drafted by the football franchise in late 1965 and was later known as “Mr. Falcon.” When he was not on the gridiron, Nobis volunteered his time with the Georgia…
The Donovan’s Venom
"Attach a melody, and your mind retains it,” says a classically trained concert pianist named The Donovan Vernon (who goes by “The Donovan”). He poses the question: “When was the last time you recited your ABCs? Even if it was…
Aimee Copeland Foundation
Aimee Copeland was zip lining in 2012 when she fell and…
Atlanta Music Project
Music education starts with hitting the right notes. It can lead to so much more, according to the…
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…
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