Author: Candice Dyer

Candice Dyer warms up to Quilts For Kids, a group that provides cheery coverlets to children in hospitals or shelters.

Candice Dyer highlights The Giving Kitchen, a nonprofit that assists hospitality industry workers in crisis.

Candice Dyer spotlights The Homestead Atlanta, a nonprofit helping people reconnect with their heritage skills.

Candice Dyer highlights the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island.

Candice Dyer’s Organizations focuses on the Georgia Legacy Foundation, which supports the state’s musicians.

Candice Dyer focuses on the Ivy Community Foundation that helps “the very old and the very young” in southwest Atlanta.

Candice Dyer spotlights The Stuttering Foundation in St. Simons that works toward prevention and treatment.

Candace Dyer focuses on TurningPoint Women’s Healthcare, offering rehabilitation and physical therapy for women with breast cancer.

Candice Dyer spotlights the Brain Tumor Foundation For Children, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that focuses on pediatric patients and their families

Candice Dyer highlights the Statewide Independent Living Council.

Candice Dyer highlights the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler.

Candice Dyer puts the spotlight on nonprofit Park Pride, which works with “Friends” groups to support public parks.

Candice Dyer looks at the nonprofit ToolBank USA headquartered in Atlanta.

Candice Dyer checks in with Deep, a Savannah nonprofit that combats illiteracy and encourages self-expression.

Candice Dyer focuses on a nonprofit called “Go, Eat, Give,” which arranges vacations that combine volunteering with cooking instruction.

Candice Dyer reports on The Next Stop Foundation, which offers social, recreational and educational activities for developmentally challenged adults

Candice Dyer highlights St. Jude’s Recovery Center, celebrating 50 years of alcohol and drug addiction treatment.

Bryce Lawson’s legs ache, but he keeps swimming, stroke after stroke, four laps around the 10-lane pool.   “It’s a good kind of tired I feel right now,” he says, after toweling off young limbs that are growing increasingly toned.…

When she was a teenager, Grace Hicks resigned herself to a foreshortened lifetime of “staying sick.” She had received treatment for a six-year bout with anorexia but still struggled with the eating disorder, and her medical bills had depleted her…

Six years ago, a teacher’s aide told Keith Schumacher that when he showed up at his daughter Gracie’s kindergarten classroom, the students sat up straighter. “She observed that there was a difference in the air when I was there,” says…

Sara Anderson, an 89-year-old Cotton Belt dowager, likes to quote a fatalistic motto in her Middle Georgia drawl: “You simply can’t take it with you.” It Begins at Home: She recently donated her north Macon home to the Com-munity Foundation…

For firefighters, crisis response does not always end when the smoke clears. A 32-year-old Morgan County lieutenant and father of a toddler was recently paralyzed from his chest down when his truck overturned en route to a call. So the…

Signs of the Dream Weavers’ colorful generosity can be seen far away and close to home: a water buffalo in the Philippines; therapy for an injured zebra; a steady stream of clothes and toys for 10 children in Mexico. And…

Kailah Corney glides her bow across the cello’s strings with lip-biting concentration, creating a startlingly deep and resonant sound. Hooked on Symphonics: Kailah, a nine-year-old from southwest Atlanta, had never heard of the instrument until a few months ago when,…

Speed Trap: The graphic ads jolt and revolt with their images, which usually include close-ups of fresh, young faces ravaged, after a couple of hits on a drug pipe, with lesions, rotting teeth and desperation. “Not Even Once” is the…

Every community reels from the death of a beloved teenager. When Inda Allen died at 16 from a blood clot, Bean Creek, a historically African-American neighborhood in the mountains of northeast Georgia, lost not just a scholar, athlete, model and…

A YouTube video for the Fugees Academy went viral on the power of its message and the charisma of its young pitchman, Mohamud. The Somali refugee overcomes a fit of camera-shy giggling to explain with great dignity how he struggled…

Nature’s Child: When Emily Harrison was a little girl in the late 1800s, she so loved to explore the mossy creek banks around her home in Druid Hills that she dreamed of a “school in the woods for nature study.”…

This summer, the North Georgia Community Foundation celebrated its 25th anniversary at a gala with the unusual theme of “Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, & Human Kindness.” On a hilltop in Hall County, guests trained telescopes on the surrounding mountains and…

This Organization relies on that “aha!” moment the first time a kid strums the strings. Then when fans applaud and swoon, the sounds of a guitar can drown out the other noise – taunts at school, gang violence, smooth-talking drug…

Until this camp began blazing trails, children with disabilities usually waited until the off-season at state parks to paddle a canoe, ride a horse, or shoot with a bow and arrow. Even then, though, much of the terrain was unsafe.…

In this corporate culture, those who play well with others enjoy sweet, long-term rewards. “lil’ ol’ me” is a line of colorful kiddie clothing and accessories – call it tot couture – that helps provide therapy, education and a more…

In the 1930s, a group of duck hunters in New York stopped hearing that pulse-quickening rustle of wings. They were feeling the sweep of the Dust Bowl thousands of miles away, as its winds parched the birds’ breeding grounds and…

Poundcakes are helping put Wimberley Larkey through college. “Buying books and art supplies, which can be very expensive, would have been difficult without help,” says the Kennesaw State freshman, who earned a scholarship from the Newnan Junior Service League’s cookbook…

A different drum: At 22, Nuçi Phillips wrote songs and played guitar with a grace and feeling unusual for someone so young, but then, he always had been that kind of kid – deeply affected by The Yearling, always aligned…