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By Belinda Brady, director, investments The Community Foundation’s summer book club selection this year was “The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life” by David Brooks. Brooks’ premise is that our lives consist of two distinct sequential phases. In simple terms, the second mountain is focused on leading a …
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 …
Last week the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma faced historic and dangerous flash-flooding that has caused crippling flood damage, sinkholes and erosion. Just prior to the storms in mid-May, several staff members of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta visited Tulsa for a conference. They were welcomed by a beautiful, thriving …
Last year, we published a blog entry about organizations helping children and their families at our southern border. Many of our donors continue to ask how they can support humanitarian aid and legal services, so we have updated our list. A number of nonprofit organizations, including several local ones, are …
By Terry Mazany, senior vice president, philanthropy In an era defined by the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, we have witnessed extraordinary generosity benefiting organizations and causes. Surely this is all good – or is it? Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All, makes the …
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