We sat down with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta executive director Janice McKenzie-Crayton, who has been with the organization for 25 years, to talk about BBBSMA’s mission, past challenges, and their vision for the future. BBBSMA …
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In this #BetterTogether post we’re featuring two Atlanta-area nonprofits collaborating to end homelessness in our city: Atlanta Mission and HomeAid Atlanta Atlanta Mission serves more than 1,000 men women and children every day, providing emergency shelter, rehab and …
READ MOREThomasville Heights Elementary School of Atlanta lies just minutes south of of the trendy bars and restaurants and pricey homes of East Atlanta Village, Grant Park, and Little Five Points, but trapped as it is between an old …
READ MOREGlobal Village Project (GVP) in Decatur, Georgia was founded by a group of volunteers in 2009 to serve middle school girls in the refugee community who are new to the United States. The students, who hail from more …
READ MORETechBridge recently checked in on one of the homeless shelters we’ve worked with in the past couple of years to see how things were coming along. When we walked into Nicholas House in Grant Park on a gray …
READ MOREWe checked in with our friends at Open Hand Atlanta in mid-December. We enjoyed a tour of their busy kitchens and the rest of their facility and then sat down to chat with Open Hand about how they serve the community and …
READ MOREWe had a great time catching up with Keith Kirshner at the state-of-the-art Ben Massell Dental Clinic last month. What a fabulous organization! BMDC, which operates under the umbrella of Jewish Family & Career Services, is the only clinic in Atlanta that …
READ MOREFrom 2012 to 2014, over 1.4 million New Yorkers–including nearly one in four of the city’s children–lived in households that lacked sufficient food. (New York City Coalition against Hunger). Currently, over 1,000 community-based food programs distribute about $130 …
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