Organizations

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…

Success story: Now in its 12th year, the Georgia Center for the Book is the state affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. It is one of 50 literary programs across the…

An Atlanta First: The Atlanta police force was one of the first city government departments to be integrated in the 1960s by then-Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. Back then, however, integration didn’t mean black and white officers serving side by side,…

Mission-Driven: Officially chartered in 1875, the school that became Dor-chester Academy owes its existence to an organization known as the American Missionary Association (AMA). The group began as an abolitionist movement before the Civil War and opened schools for freedmen…

Going Global: Leadership Georgia made its first international excursion this summer, taking almost every member of the class of 2009 to Costa Rica. It wasn’t for fun in the sun, either, says the organization’s president, Horace Johnson, Jr. “Costa Rica…

Marking Milestones: It’s been six years since Kate Atwood, who lost her mother at age 12, founded Kate’s Club, an organization that aims to empower kids who’ve lost a parent or sibling. From an initial group of just six children,…

Marking Milestones: When the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Institute convenes at the end of this month in St. Simons, it will mark the 20th such gathering to address issues of import to the Metro Atlanta area, says ARC’s Tony…

Silver Lining: As it enters its 40th year of service to the northeast Georgia community this fall, Gainesville-based Rehabilitation Industries of Northeast Georgia (RING) is finding something of a silver lining to the current economic situation. Its services are being…

Making Sense Of It All: The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) has its roots in a movement launched earlier this decade to establish a network of nonpartisan state fiscal analysis institutes. The mission of this five-year-old organization, says Executive…