Category: Thought Leaders
By: Johanna McCrehan, Georgia Conservancy Urban Design Lead & Nick Johnson, Georgia Conservancy Senior Planner If you have recently found yourself thinking that it couldn’t have been this hot this early last year, there’s ...
Original post on ULI’s website. From planning communities to planning soccer drills, we spoke with Reis about his passion for design, involvement in ULI and giving back to the next generation. by: The Wilbert Group ...
By Eric Tanenblatt, Dentons Las Vegas, Austin, Jacksonville, Providence, Paris, Singapore, Oslo, Seoul—a short, incomplete list of cities that are planning to integrate or have already integrated autonomous shuttles into their public transportation systems. Unfortunately ...
For decades the world has focused on blueprints for business success. Last week at the HOPE Global Forum 200 empowered women entrepreneurs shifted that conversation and introduced their Pinkprint for success. Marshaling their shared vision ...
by Boyd Baker, Founder of Community Arts Live and Good Gracious Show When you think of an “arts leader,” what comes to mind? Do you see a museum director, a city council member, or a ...
The Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Police Department recently had 22 officers graduate from the Fulton County Public Safety Training Center. Among the graduates are 14 officers selected after a recruiting trip to Puerto Rico. ...
Metro Atlanta continues to be a top destination for economic development projects of all sizes and locations throughout the 29-county region. The heart of the city, an area known as “the Gulch,” represents a huge ...
Drew Reynolds, Program Director, Childspring International drew@childspringintl.org Each year, surgically treatable conditions account for approximately 30% of the global burden of disease and an estimated 5 billion people go without access to critical surgical care. ...
By Alicia Philipp, president, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta recently released our 2018 Annual Report where we reflect upon our year and the donors and nonprofits that help our ...
By Marquita Bundrage and Kate Sweeney When Economic Development director Brian Stockton moved to the city of Woodstock in 2007, there were only three or four restaurants within walking distance of City Hall. Now there ...
By S. Kelley Henderson, Chief Executive Officer, Action Ministries School’s out for summer! Family vacations are near, and many kids are looking for the nearest pool. I remember summer as being one of my favorite ...
Note from by John Ahmann, President & CEO, Westside Future Fund Thank you to Charlene Crusoe-Ingram, CEO of Meals on Wheels Atlanta for providing this week’s column. Meals on Wheels began from a seed of ...
by Andrew Alexander A tough but beloved professor of art history gives all of her new students a difficult first assignment. They must submit, for her notoriously demanding scrutiny, an intensive research paper about a ...
United Way of Greater Atlanta on May 9 at its annual State of The Children event reported out the progress made in Greater Atlanta’s 13 counties to improve the well-being of its children. A previous ...
By Diana Robelotto Ever wondered who are the first people sent out to investigate when a disease outbreak occurs? Enter the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officers. EIS officers ...
Michael Halicki, Executive Director of Park Pride Last week, I joined Atlanta Regional Commission’s LINK (Leaders Involvement Networking Knowledge) trip to Pittsburgh with other metro-Atlanta leaders. The goal was to connect with and learn tactics ...
By Paul Donsky Expanded trail networks. Lively town centers. Roads designed for walkers and bicyclists, not just cars. These are just some of the transformative ideas that 10 communities across metro Atlanta will be studying, ...
By John Berry, St. Vincent de Paul Georgia There was an old song that was popular when I was young that had a line something like ‘It’s summer time and the living is easy.’ It was ...
By Charles Redding, MedShare I recently participated as a guest speaker at a Techonomy Conference in New York, along with a representative of MedShare’s global health partner, Philips Healthcare. The conversations both on-stage and off, ...
Tickets available now for two-day event featuring matches between eight teams July 6-7 in Atlanta. Momentum has been the key to metro Atlanta’s sporting dominance. In February, the world came to the city for Super ...
