The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting accomplishments and impact, new partnerships, staff moves, and more. (Get yours delivered monthly! Sign up here.)  Got news of your own? Send your latest to NOW@gcn.org. Welcome, new GCN members! Right from the Start Canine CellMates Hospice of South Georgia Family Counseling Center of the CSRA Kaleidoscope Child Foundation Georgia City Solutions DeKalb Preparatory Academy Impact ◄ On their 25th Warm Coat Day, North Fulton Community Charities (NFCC) distributed 1,892 items – including coats, jacket ..read more

The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting accomplishments and impact, new partnerships, staff moves, and more. (Get yours delivered monthly! Sign up here.) Welcome, new GCN members! Clothes Less Traveled HOPE Atlanta IAMHOLDENON Georgia Laws of Life StandUp For Kids One Love Prison Meditation Project The Breman Museum National Down Syndrome Congress Angela Sigari Impact ◄ At their Sept. 20 HomeAid Care Day, HomeAid Atlanta gathered more than 50 volunteers to provide $12,000 in facilities maintenance and repairs for Jerusalem House ..read more

The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting accomplishments and impact, new partnerships, staff moves, and more. (Get yours delivered monthly! Sign up here.) Welcome, new GCN members! Grant Park Conservancy A Loving Act Intown Collaborative Ministries First United Methodist Church of Warner Robins Real Life Center Tifton Museum of Arts & Heritage Greater Women's Business Council Georgia Resource Center Auto Accident Survivors of Georgia Impact ◄ More than 16,000 books were distributed over the course of the 7th Mayor’s Summer Re ..read more

The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting accomplishments and impact, new partnerships, staff moves, and more. (Get yours delivered monthly! Sign up here.) Welcome, new GCN members! Grant Park Conservancy A Loving Act Intown Collaborative Ministries First United Methodist Church of Warner Robins Real Life Center Tifton Museum of Arts & Heritage Greater Women's Business Council Georgia Resource Center Auto Accident Survivors of Georgia Impact ◄ More than 16,000 books were distributed over the course of the 7th Mayor’s Summer Re ..read more

The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting accomplishments and impact, new partnerships, staff moves, and more. (Get yours delivered monthly! Sign up here.) Impact SunTrust Foundation awarded a three-year, $2 million grant to 3DE National, a nonprofit started by Junior Achievement of Georgia, to support their expansion in metro Atlanta and outside Georgia. ◄ At their 2019 Dream Big event, Arby’s Foundation awarded a total of $200,000 in grants, including $25,000 each for Agape Youth & Family Center, Bearings Bike Shop, and Covenant House Georgia. Giving Kitchen provi ..read more

This month’s roundup features new opportunities for nonprofits working in the arts and humanities, chronic illness prevention and relief, social justice movements, wildlife conservation, housing for the homeless, and technology-focused solutions. These opportunities have been sourced from Philanthropy News Digest, GrantStation, and Grant Gopher, as well as foundations’ online notices. National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Deadline: Aug. 8 Matching grants of up to $200,000 will go to “creative placemaking” programs that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts to st ..read more

For 23 years, in more than 52 communities, Blueprints for Successful Communities has addressed the topic of housing options across the state of Georgia. The Sustainable Growth Program of the Georgia Conservancy offers this community-based planning service to urban neighborhoods, transportation corridors, rural communities, and environmentally sensitive coastal areas. You might ask, Why is housing a subject of interest to a conservation organization? The answer is simple: The type and location of housing stock have land use, economic, equity, and social justice ramifications for all Georgians ..read more

The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting accomplishments and impact, new partnerships, staff moves, and more. (Get yours delivered monthly! Sign up here.) Impact ► The Atlanta Audubon Society has partnered with Forsyth County Parks and Recreation to apply window treatments to the Sawnee Mountain Park Community Building that will help prevent bird-window strikes that regularly injure and kill migrating birds. For the 2019 edition of their Working Artist Project, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia awarded fellowships to three Atlanta artists: Ariel Danielle, Courtn ..read more

This month’s roundup features new opportunities for innovative projects at newer and smaller nonprofits, work that serves youth subjected to sexual abuse or exploitation, improving the lives of those with HIV or AIDS, new and scaleable ideas for early education, visual arts organizations, climbing, and much more. These opportunities have been sourced from Philanthropy News Digest, GrantStation, and Grant Gopher, as well as foundations’ online notices. New Earth Foundation Grant program Deadline: July 1 (letters of inquiry) Funding innovative projects in many fields – including but not li ..read more

The latest updates from our members and partners, highlighting accomplishments and impact, new partnerships, staff moves, and more. (Get yours delivered monthly! Sign up here.) Editor’s note: In May, we mistakenly reported on the American Red Cross of Georgia’s fire safety campaign Sound the Alarm before it had been completed. Over the full two-week event, the campaign mobilized nearly 900 volunteers and installed more than 3,400 free smoke alarms in homes across the state. GCN regrets the error. Impact ► HomeAid Atlanta completed a renovation project and broke ground on new construction for ..read more