Soccer in the Streets with MARTA
Soccer in the Streets brings the game to neighborhood MARTA stations around Atlanta. They build community through accessibility and a level-playing field for all. Soccer in the Streets currently has 6 StationSoccer locations operating at Five Points, West End, East Point, East Lake, Kensington, and Lindbergh MARTA stations.
Home for Good: PAWS Atlanta Second Chances
PAWS Atlanta gets a shelter makeover on ABC’s Home for Good! For over 60 years, PAWS Atlanta has provided shelter and compassionate care for animals in need, working around the clock to help them find forever homes. Now, Art and the team give back by renovating key spaces in their shelter to create a warmer and more functional environment for both the animals and the dedicated staff who care for them.
Metro Atlanta community supporting TSA workers amid shutdown
As the federal government shutdown stretches past a month, unpaid TSA officers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport receive vital assistance to help them navigate mounting financial hardships. Emmaus House has been providing mortgage and utility assistance to struggling families in South Atlanta for over 59 years.
Beloved Community Incubator featured in the “Seed Commons Impact Report”
BCI in Washington, DC for is featured on page 12 as one of the top and fastest growing worker cooperative organizations in the country!
BCI helps workers and communities build economic power through cooperative business ownership, access to capital, and network-based support.
A place to call home
Erin, an Atlanta Land Trust homeowner, shares her journey to homeownership with the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. A coworker told her about the Atlanta Land Trust, which uses the community land trust model to sell homes affordably while keeping land in trust – preventing displacement and ensuring long-term affordability.
The Coalition Model: How Atlanta’s Arts Community is Fighting for its Future
Laura Hennighausen, CEO of Arts Capital Atlanta, joins the Could Be Pretty Cool Podcast to talk about building a collective front of arts organizations across Metro Atlanta that can better advocate together for increased funding.
Midtown Assistance Center celebrates 40 years of helping those who 'struggle to make ends meet'
Midtown Assistance Center helps families avoid eviction, keep the lights on, and put food on the table. The nonprofit has served as a lifeline for 40 years for folks living in Atlanta, providing food, clothing, rental and utility assistance.
A decade-and-a-half later, Atlanta’s makerspaces adapt, survive, thrive
Unlike other makerspaces, Scraplanta does not have an always-open workroom. Rather, its art-supply thrift stores. Donations of every imaginable art material, from framed canvas to cardboard tubes, are weighed, logged and then stocked. Prices on its products range from half MSRP to fill-a-bag: $10 for an IKEA tote; a dollar for a ziploc. According to Symone Gaskin, Scraplanta’s community coordinator, the idea is to make creating art more accessible to underrepresented groups.
DHIC featured in “North Carolina Health News”
DHIC was recently featured in North Carolina Health News for their work in turning an unused former church building into affordable housing for seniors.
DHIC supports individuals, families, and seniors by providing homes and opportunities that promote the financial, physical, and mental well-being of people and communities.
New Atlanta arts budget highlights shortfall in funding
Laura Hennighausen, CEO of Arts Capital | Atlanta, speaks with Atlanta News First about the consistent lack of funding for the Arts in Atlanta, as well as ongoing changes in funding preferences and new requirements from grantors.
As Trump Recasts History, a Civil Rights Museum Sticks to a Messy Past
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is expanding its exploration of the country’s racial dynamics despite a surge of government resistance. It is not lost on the center’s leaders that a museum devoted to the push and pull of the country’s fitful civil rights history is reopening at a moment when President Trump has used the force of the federal government to dismantle diversity programs and promote a sunnier version of America’s story.
Atlanta’s civil rights museum reopens, reimagined for the next generation
With new wings, redesigned exhibits, and a focus on children, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights is back as both memorial and classroom. After being closed since January for renovations, the center will feature four new spaces with exhibits changing twice a year, offering visitors a deeper dive into civil and human rights stories.
On Eve of SNAP Crisis, St. Paul’s Reopens Food Pantry with Emmaus House Help
The last day of the month is usually when food is scarcest for people who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), aka food stamps. However, a new collaborative effort to open a mobile food pantry between St. Paul’s and Emmaus House served 205 families on Oct. 31st, representing 525 people receiving fresh and packaged produce, protein, and canned goods. Their first distribution together became even timelier because the federal government stopped SNAP payments on Nov. 1.
Legacy is Alive
In the week leading up to Halloween and Día de los Muertos, members of the Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta (CVC) gathered at the Historic Oakland Cemetery to learn about significant change makers laid to rest there. "RIP (Rest in Philanthropy)” as the annual event is called, guides attendees through stories of leadership shaped by volunteers, mentors, advocates, philanthropists and elected officials who answered the call when their city and neighbors needed them most.
The Clarkston Greenway Feasibility Study
The American Planning Association has awarded a 2025 Advancing Diversity and Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff Award to The Clarkston Greenway Feasibility Study which explored different path locations to better connect residents to different parts of town and create a more walkable and livable community. The study centers the voices of at-risk and historically overlooked residents in one of the nation's most diverse cities to prioritize access to nature, health, and mobility. The thoughtful placement of the greenway enhances access and connectivity to schools, transit stops, retail, and health clinics.
First part of Georgia Tech’s ambitious ‘Creative Quarter’ project revealed
A temporary hub for contemporary arts will soon rise on the western edge of Georgia Tech’s campus, a prelude of sorts for an expansion of the campus dedicated to creative arts and industry.
“Loop,” as the space has been named, will bring art installations, performances and immersive events to the 7-acre former Randall Brothers manufacturing site in west Midtown. It will be operated by the Goat Farm Arts Center in conjunction with GT.
Georgia Tech envisions building a hub where new technologies for producing art are developed, shared and experimented with, akin to the innovation districts it has built for life sciences and technology.
Announcing the winners of the 30th ULI Atlanta Awards for Excellence
The annual ULI Awards honor development projects across the state for their exceptional vision, leadership, and lasting impact on Georgia’s built environment. Atlanta Land Trust won the Affordable and Workforce Housing Award for The Avenue at Oakland City. The Avenue is a 36-townhome development providing affordable for-sale housing within walking distance of the Oakland City MARTA Station and the BeltLine Westside Trail. The Historic District-approved design features five, two-story, multifamily buildings with front porches and alternating principal roof forms of front-facing gables and shed roofs. Significant infrastructure upgrades eliminate flooding on the site from combined sewer overflows. Developers also installed new water and sewer infrastructure under Tucker Avenue and repaved the street.
Minneapolis nominates 3 sites at the center of city's Black community to National Register of Historic Places
The city of Minneapolis is nominating the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center and the former home of civil rights advocate Harry Davis, Sr. to the National Register of Historic Places. The Phyllis Wheatley Community Center has been providing community programs and services for 100 years in north Minneapolis. It opened in 1924 when young Black women who were barred from the dorms at the University of Minnesota raised funds to open a settlement house.
Running on Empty
Annually, the September issue of Atlanta Magazine centers on The Arts. This feature story details the day-to-day challenges arts organizations are facing in the wake of ongoing funding cuts. Hear from Mack Headrick, managing director of 7 Stages; Laura Flusche, executive director of Museum of Design Atlanta; and Christopher Escobar, Atlanta Film Festival. Plus learn more about how they’re banding together through Arts Capital | Atlanta.
Civil Rights center beats fundraising goal, sets date to reopen
With two new wings, the 24,000-square-foot expansion of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights will re-open November 8 after being closed to visitors since January.