Organizations

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…