Philanthropy Front and Center - Atlanta
A new blog sponsored by the Foundation Center - Atlanta, Philanthropy Front and Center-Atlanta spotlights grantmakers, their grants, and the work of the Foundation Center and other nonprofit organizations in Atlanta and the Southeast.
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Spotlight on Funding for the Environment and Animals in Georgia
Foundation giving to Georgia recipients for the environment and animals totaled $32.2 million in 2006, according to Spotlight on Funding for the Environment and Animals in Georgia. This report includes the preferred categories and types of support of larger U.S. foundations, based on their 2006 giving, along with that year's top recipients and funders in Georgia for the environment and animals. Download the report»
Health Care, Access Key Issue Affecting Homelessness in Atlanta, Report Finds 8/06/08
Bequest Boosts Small Florida Foundation Into 'Big Leagues' 7/30/08
Duke Endowment Awards More Than $110 Million During First Half of 2008 7/29/08
Grants that Make a Difference:
The Unified Summer Grants Collaborative has awarded a total of more than $974,000 to fifty-two summer programs serving more than fifteen thousand children and youth in the greater New Orleans area.
Grantmakers in the News
The Atlanta Women's Foundation announced in July that it awarded more than $1 million to nonprofit organizations serving women and girls in the metropolitan Atlanta area.
Spotlight On
Gilgal, Inc.
The Technical Assistance Providers page contains contact information for many organizations and associations that support nonprofits in Atlanta.
- Make IT More Successful in Your Nonprofit is for non-technical people who want to better understand IT and for IT people who want to know why their work is unappreciated. May 14, 2008, 9:30 am-12:30 pm, at the Atlanta History Center. Free to TechBridge members; $25 for non-members. Verizon Foundation scholarships are available to nonprofits focused on education, literacy, domestic violence or healthcare. Register on the TechBridge website»
- The ABCs of Risk Management, a free legal workshop, will be held on Friday, May 9. Learn the basics of risk management at this videoconference of a workshop held in New York. For more information, contact Pro Bono Partnership at gwen.sparling@pbpatl.org.
- Come to the Georgia Nonprofit Summit on May 5-6 and be part of the power to imagine. The Summit is the largest gathering of nonprofits in the Southeast, providing information, inspiration and networking for professionals working to impact our communities. For more information & to register, visit the Georgia Center for Nonprofits website. Register before
April 1 for early-bird rates.
- Georgia State University Associate Professor Dr. Baotong Gu accepts inquiries each winter from nonprofits who would be interested in volunteer student grant writers. Students in his spring Grant and Proposal Writing class must research and write proposals for local nonprofits for their term projects. For more information, contact Dr. Gu at bgu@gsu.edu or 404-413-5845.
Giving by Georgia Foundations Rises to $718 million
According to the Foundation Center’s new report, Key Facts on Georgia Foundations, giving by Georgia foundations rose to $718 million in 2005, a 15 percent increase over 2000 despite a slight decrease in assets during the same period.
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Download the free report (PDF)»
- We are now accepting paid advertising at reasonable rates for services of interest to our nonprofit audience in our library's e-mailed listerv message, which reaches thousands of your colleagues each week. Find out more or e-mail bth@foundationcenter.org.
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- Outcome Thinking and Management: Shifting Focus from Activities to Results
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- Grantseeker Training Institute
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