Atlanta-based Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service, will hold its annual conference June 18-20. Known as Service Unites, the conference will bring together more than 2,500 nonprofit, government, business and civic leaders to exchange knowledge,…
Downtown Woodstock has taken a novel approach to help address food insecurity in its community. Following the recent renovation of the Woodstock Visitors Center, the city teamed up with local artists Deidra Smith and Darrell Reddy to transform a leftover…
Spouses of state legislators have raised more than $120,000 to establish the Sandra Dunagan Deal Scholarship at Milledgeville’s Georgia College in honor of the first lady. The scholarship will offer financial assistance to students from rural areas of our state…
Extra Special People (ESP), a Watkinsville-based nonprofit for children with special needs in Northeast Georgia, recently exceeded its fundraising goal, receiving $300,000 to help send 1,000 children of all abilities to summer camp. The donations were celebrated at ESP’s annual…
More than 80 years ago, Robert Winship Woodruff, The Coca-Cola Company’s late leader, became a benefactor of Emory University. Today, his legacy continues to support the university, most recently with a pledge of $400 million by his namesake foundation. The…
With receipt of a $500,000 grant from ArtPlace America, Macon’s One South Community Development Corp. is ramping up plans for Georgia’s first agrihood. Located in a south Macon neighborhood, the goal of the agrihood is to turn blighted properties into…
What happens when a group of scantily clad veterans teams up with rescued pit bulls to make a “dudeoir” calendar – a tongue-in-cheek take on women’s boudoir-style photography? Aside from hilarity, the hope is the calendar will generate funds for…
Green Acres Elementary School in Smyrna recently welcomed more than 100 volunteers from REAL School Gardens and Sprouts Farmers Market who transformed an empty schoolyard into an outdoor classroom in one day. Dubbed the “Big Dig,” the event created a…
Seven-year-old Zayden Wright, from Augusta, was born with a congenital heart condition and has had more than 40 echocardiograms, six heart catheterizations and four open heart surgeries in his short life. When Make-A-Wish Georgia, an organization that grants wishes for…
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Atlanta Apartment Association’s (AAA) support of the Atlanta Community Food Bank through Food-A-Thon, a combination food and fundraising drive. Food-A-Thon is the AAA’s annual community service project and it enlists the aid…
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