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Atlanta Ballet
Founded in 1929, Atlanta Ballet is one of the premier dance companies in the country and the official State Ballet of Georgia. Atlanta Ballet’s eclectic repertoire spans ballet history, highlighted by beloved classics and inventive originals. After 95 years, Atlanta Ballet continues its commitment to share and educate audiences on the empowering joy of dance.
Atlanta Braves Foundation
The mission of the Atlanta Braves Foundation is to build community through baseball engaging Braves Country, reaching vulnerable populations, and improving equity and access in sport, health, education and well-being outcomes for children, families, and communities.
Black Mamas Matter Alliance
The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance that centers Black mamas and birthing people to advocate, drive research, build power, and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights, and justice. We envision a world where Black mamas have the rights, respect, and resources to thrive before, during, and after pregnancy.
Caring For Others
Caring For Others, Inc. offers an advanced model for homelessness prevention that strives to support those on the brink of homelessness and end the cycle before it begins. The organization seeks to maintain dignity and consistency in the lives of their clients, to renew their hope and restore their strength by moving beyond simply meeting the basic human needs of food and clothing.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Hughes Spalding
Located in downtown Atlanta, Children’s at Hughes Spalding features 24-hour emergency care, an in-patient unit, radiology services, and specialty care outpatient areas among its pediatric services. Thousands of children in metro Atlanta are treated for allergies, asthma, diabetes, seizures, feeding disorders, sickle cell, autism, cerebral palsy and many other pediatric conditions each year.
Hop on a Cure
Hop On A Cure was created by a husband and wife who wished to help countless others, like themselves, who have been unwillingly thrown into this cruel and unfair fight. Its mission is to support research to prevent, reverse, and cure ALS while raising awareness, building a compassionate community, and unleashing the healing power of hope. Through the support of our passionate community, Hop On A Cure foresees a future where the effects of ALS are nonexistent, and families no longer worry about what the next three years will look like.
Lifecycle Building Center of Greater Atlanta
Lifecycle Building Center’s mission centers on keeping usable construction materials out of landfills and redirecting them back into the community through reuse. Since 2011, LBC has prevented the disposal of 13.3 million pounds of building materials and generated over $6.47M in community savings by: 1) providing income-restricted homeowners near LBC’s Reuse Center access to these materials at an affordable cost and 2) donating free materials to nonprofits, schools and churches across metro Atlanta, with 496 in-kind material grants awarded to 402 nonprofits to date through its Nonprofit Material MATCH program. LBC is also supporting the expansion of affordable housing in low-wealth communities, and working with community partners to provide workforce training in deconstruction as well as free educational classes in home performance and carpentry skills.
Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA)
Formed in 1989 as the Atlanta International Museum of Art & Design, MODA has grown and evolved over the years to become the Southeast’s only design museum. The museum also holds the distinction of being a Smithsonian Affiliate. MODA’s mission is to advance the understanding and appreciation of design as the convergence of creativity and functionality through exhibitions, education, and programming for visitors of all ages.
Partnership Against Domestic Violence
Founded by Susan May, Partnership Against Domestic Violence began with one bed and one phone, as an all-volunteer agrency in 1975 and was incorporated in 1977. Today, PADV is the first and largest domestic violence organization in Georgia providing professional and empowering support to abused women, children and men in the city of Atlanta, Gwinnett County and Fulton County. PADV works to educate the public on the dynamics of domestic violence, promote healthy dating relationships among adolescents, teens and young adults to prevent future violence, offer safety and shelter for abused adults and children, restore power, self-sufficiency, and control to survivors, create an effective and coordinated community response to domestic violence.
ReClif Community
ReClif Community seeks to give people with autism and those who care for them the opportunity to have more typical life experiences. With cognitively focused activities, social outreach, scholarship, and societal inclusion, it is our mission to empower its beneficiaries.As the fastest growing developmental disorder in existence, autism needs a lifelong community support system for a lifelong diagnosis.
The Ron Clark Academy
The Ron Clark Academy (RCA) is a highly-acclaimed, nonprofit middle school located in Southeast Atlanta, Georgia. The Academy has received both national and international recognition for its success for creating a loving, dynamic learning environment that promotes academic excellence and fosters leadership. Our 4th to 8th grade students represent various socio-economic and academic backgrounds and communities from across the metro region
Sheltering Arms
The mission of Sheltering Arms is to close opportunity gaps stemming from systemic racism by transforming the lives of children and their families through high-quality, equitable early childhood education and leadership in the field. Sheltering Arms provides high‐quality early education, child care and comprehensive family support services to up to 3,500 children and their families annually at 13 metropolitan Atlanta locations in Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. On average, children attending Sheltering Arms score in the 90th percentile for language and literacy, exceeding developmental milestones for kindergarten readiness.
Techbridge
Techbridge is a team of consultants, engineers, and community organizers with 25+ years of experience—and a belief that tech can solve society’s toughest challenges. Our mission is to break the cycle of generational poverty using technology and programming to address hunger, housing, social justice, and workforce challenges.
We do this by providing affordable, accessible solutions to nonprofits who share our mission, because cutting-edge technology isn’t always within reach for those prioritizing public good over profit.
Usher’s New Look
In 1999, Usher, with the help of his mother, formed Usher’s New Look (UNL), a catalyst to empower and instill confidence in young people all over the world. His goal that year was to help 10 Atlanta students discover their potential and unlock their purpose. Nearly seventeen years later, UNL has now touched the lives o over 42,000 youth around the world. The organization offers leadership programs for students in middle-school, high school and through post-secondary education. UNL’s main focus is to teach youth how to identify their passion, or “spark”, early on and then connect it to a relevant education and career pathway.
Wellstar Health System
At Wellstar, people are at the center of everything we do and every decision we make. As a not-for-profit organization, we have made a generational commitment to transform healthcare for all. We work to ensure every person has access to personalized care that helps them spend more time being a person, rather than a patient. That’s what we mean when we say we’re more than healthcare–we’re PeopleCare.
Westside Future Fund
A nonprofit formed by Atlanta’s public, private and philanthropic partners, Westside Future Fund is committed to helping Historic Westside neighborhoods revitalize and develop into a community Dr. King would be proud to call home. Their mission is to advance a compassionate approach to neighborhood revitalization that creates a diverse, mixed-income community, improves the quality of life for current and future residents, and elevates the Historic Westside’s unique history and culture.
Wounded Warrior Project
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) began in 2003 as a small, grassroots effort providing simple care and comfort items to the hospital bedsides of the first wounded service members returning home from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. As their post-service needs evolved, so have the Wound Warrior Project’s programs and services. Today, through their direct programs in mental health, career counseling, and long-term rehabilitative care, along with their advocacy efforts, WWP improves the lives of millions of warriors and their families.