Below you'll find a list of all posts from June, 2019
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Today is Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas. Since Texas was a remote slave state, news of the end of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation was delayed. While some people celebrate on other dates that represent when …
By Alyssa Cobbs, manager, strategic projects In The Great Believers, author Rebecca Makkai transports the reader from Chicago in the 1980s, where a group of friends is experiencing illness and death as a result of the AIDS epidemic, to the current day in Paris, where a mother is fighting to …
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta recently wrapped up the second cohort of Mailchimp Community College, a unique partnership between Mailchimp and the Foundation to help employees discover the power of philanthropy while learning more about the region. In May, Mailchimp employees awarded $203,000 in grants to regional nonprofits on …
By Lesley Grady, senior vice president, community Good books make us better by increasing our intellect and broadening our outlook. Yet the best books force us not only go outward but inward as well: to contemplate its words so that they inform, expand and sometimes disrupt our patterns of thinking. …
College tuition is usually the first cost that comes to mind when discussing college affordability, but it is far from the only expense posing as a barrier to college success. Textbook prices are crippling the pockets of students and threatening their academic success. Amina Glass is a student at Georgia …
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