Atlanta leaders are celebrating the history and ongoing revitalization efforts in the city’s historic downtown urban core. The 2026 State of Downtown report highlighted growth and ongoing challenges. Downtown Atlanta Inc. reports visitation in the neighborhood has returned to 85% of pre-pandemic…
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Business and civic leaders gathered for Downtown Day to highlight the progress and challenges facing Atlanta’s oldest neighborhood. One of the biggest challenges remains vacant office space. Downtown leaders reported roughly 30% of downtown office buildings…
Supporting a community can also mean supporting the nonprofits that serve it. Nonprofits feed families, educate children, support the arts, strengthen neighborhoods, protect public health, and respond when communities face crisis. As Atlanta has grown over the decades and its…
By the end of the 20th century, Atlanta was changing. For generations, conversations about race and community in the region had largely centered on Black and white Atlantans. But by the 1990s, immigration and demographic change were reshaping communities across metro Atlanta.
County: Philadelphia County Municipality: City of Philadelphia Project Type: Community Reconnection The Chinatown Stitch Project
Some folks drive two or three hours just to eat lunch in a town with only a handful of buildings. The reason is a small Southern cafe in Juliette, Georgia, where a famous movie was filmed and where the fried…
The Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta (CVC) supports member companies to deliver business results through their strategic commitment to social impact and civic engagement. Since 1992, the CVC has provided professional development and peer-to-peer support for community-facing professionals at Metro Atlanta businesses…
Lunch in one small Tennessee town comes with a twist. You do not get your own table, and you do not order from a menu. Instead, you sit down with a group of strangers, pass big platters to the left,…
Maury Giles didn’t ask the roughly 30 people gathered Oct. 7 at the Marion County Public Library Headquarters to like each other or agree with one another. He asked them to own their part in self-government. Giles, CEO of the national nonprofit…
Sometimes the authors at Buffalo Rising work on collaborative efforts in order to cover various events and stories. These posts can not be attributed to one single author, as it is a combined effort. Often times a formation of a…
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