Author: Candice Dyer

The Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell is both a tourist destination and an animal sanctuary.

Lifecycle Building Center assists more than 100 non-profits by salvaging and donating building materials.

The Center for the Visually Impaired helps those with vision loss lead full lives.

Etgar 36 empowers teens to change the world through travel.

The East Cobb Chapter of the National Charity League pairs mothers and daughters to help others in need.

Captain Planet Foundation empowers young people in environmental stewardship.

The Matthew Reardon Center for Autism helps students master the skills for success.

Agape Youth and Family Center strengthens its Northwest Atlanta community and aims to end the cycle of generational poverty.

Alchemy Sky Foundation provides music therapy for veterans.

Sustainativity is helping other nonprofits save money through environmental innovations.

fill MINISTRIES helps the people it feeds to become self-sufficient through life skills classes and work training programs.

Books for Keeps aims to combat “summer slide” while encouraging a love of reading in kids.

Open Arms Clinic provides healthcare to Stephens County residents in need

The International Seafarers’ Center in Brunswick tends to 13,000 merchant mariners a year.

The Carrie Steele-Pitts Home provides shelter and hope for at-risk children.

Urban Hope offers after-school and summer programs for inner-city children in Savannah.

Enduring Hearts raises funds for pediatric heart transplants.

ConnectAbility provides activities and support for those with special needs.

Re:loom offers job training for low-income women while keeping textile waste out of landfills.

Tapestri helps human trafficking survivors across the Southeast.

Candice Dyer discusses CURE Childhood Cancer, which helps raise funds for research and supports families facing pediatric cancer.

Candice Dyer takes a look at the Georgia Eye Bank, which ranks among the top in the country.

Candice Dyer highlights the Student African American Brotherhood, which provides enrichment and role models to middle school students to encourage higher college graduation rates.

Candice Dyer writes about Challenged Child and Friends, an educational nonprofit in Gainesville.

Candice Dyer spotlights the Daybreak shelter and resource center in Macon.

Candice Dyer highlights MAP International, a humanitarian nonprofit based in Brunswick.

Candice Dyer focuses on The Nature Conservancy, which is working to protect the state’s land and water.

Candice Dyer dips into The Goodwill Guides, which helps veterans through fishing.

Candice Dyer highlights Wholesome Wave Georgia, which provides access to fresh produce for those living in food deserts across the state.

Candice Dyer spotlights Girls Rock Camp ATL, which gives music lessons to girls ages 10 to 16.

Candice Dyer shows how Year Up helps underserved students learn the skills needed for a new career.

Candice Dyer delves into the Rural Library Project, which helps towns in the Southeast establish these integral community centers.

Candice Dyer highlights Ian’s Friends Foundation, which is working to help find a cure for childhood cancer.

Candice Dyer highlights The Pentorship Program, which offers career development training to inmates.

Candice Dyer shines a spotlight on My Sister’s Place, which helps homeless women and children in North Georgia.

Candice Dyer ventures over to the Flannery O’Connor-Andalusia Foundation outside Milledgeville

Candice Dyer highlights Georgia’s Crime Stoppers affiliates.

Candice Dyer takes a look at wildlife allies Bubba and Friends.

Candice Dyer showcases the Sautee Nacoochee Community Association, a cultural venue and supporter of the arts in Northeast Georgia.

Candice Dyer shows how the game of chess can help at-risk students through the Be Someone organization.

Candice Dyer profiles The Georgia River Network, which helps educate Georgians about ways to restore and conserve the state’s waterways.

Candice Dyer spotlights Growing Leaders, a Norcross nonprofit that is teaching a new generation how to change the world.

Candice Dyer spotlights the Knight Foundation’s work throughout Middle Georgia.