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Life can often feel like a big checklist – groceries, laundry, work goals and more. At the end of the day, as you are falling asleep and thinking about what you did not get done today, you may start to think, “What am I going to be remembered for?” Hopefully …
By Barrett Coker Krise, senior philanthropic officer My daughter, Avie, who’s 3, is deeply invested in understanding where things belong, how they fit and how we all connect. I think some of this is her natural curiosity and a toddler’s need to understand how her world works and her place …
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 …
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