This post is written in response to “To climb from poverty, metro Atlanta’s poor children need positive role models” by David Pendered posted Jan. 6 in the Saporta Report. There is […]

By Alicia Philipp, president, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The New Year brings reflection, a time when people look back at the year that’s behind us and ahead to what’s to […]

United Way of Greater Atlanta’s African-American Partnership was formed in 2000 after Dr. Johnnetta Cole saw there wasn’t enough leadership positions for African-Americans in Greater Atlanta, AAP Director Bryan Vinson […]

By Dan Williams, program officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Georgia leads the nation in new infections of HIV/AIDS and Atlanta is in the top five of cities in the U.S. […]

United Way volunteers stretched along the inside wall of a private event area at Monday Night Garage on the West End of Atlanta on Saturday, Dec. 1. These volunteers were dressed […]

By Dan Williams, program officer, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Teams from across the state recently gathered in Porterdale, Ga. in Newton County for the Balancing Nature & Commerce for Georgia’s […]

Ashley Davis remembers being a little girl, looking up at her mother as she fixed her hair. She would sit patiently as the woman would twirl each strand before letting […]

By Terry Mazany, senior vice president, philanthropy,  Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta I was riding MARTA to work recently and at one stop I looked up to see a small elderly woman […]

U.S. Army Veteran Nelson Moody loved the time he served overseas. Moody participated in a “split-option” training program in high school in Baltimore, Maryland and he became a member of the […]