We are pleased to announce that Val Porter has joined the Foundation Center-Atlanta as our new director. Val will oversee the Center's activities in the entire Southeast, continuing a 15-year history of service to the region. Before joining the Foundation Center, Val ran her own strategy and branding firm, Cultural Capital. She is a native of Huntsville, Alabama, and a resident of Smyrna, Georgia. Please join us in welcoming Val to the Center — stop by and say hello when you have a chance!
Scholarships are now available to assist representatives of under-resourced nonprofits for our full day seminars in 2010. If you represent a nonprofit organization in Georgia with a budget under $1,000,000, you are eligible to apply. Applications should be completed at least two weeks prior to the seminar date.
Social Enterprise and Social Change: Should Nonprofits Embrace Business and the Market?
Michael Edwards, author of Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World, and panel discussion Atlanta, GA
April 22, 2010
Michael Edwards, author of Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World, addresses the question "Should Nonprofits Embrace Business and the Market?" with reactions from the following panel:
Rhonda Mims, President of the ING Foundation and Senior Vice President of Corporate Responsibility and Multicultural Affairs at ING; Jackie Parker, Vice President, Global Inclusion & Diversity and Head of Corporate Philanthropy at Newell Rubbermaid; and Ann Cramer, Director of IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs.
Arts in Crisis: Interview with Lisa Cremin, Director, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund
January 19, 2010
Lisa Cremin of the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund discusses the upcoming Arts in Crisis program on February 24 in Atlanta. In this free program, Michael Kaiser, Kennedy Center President, will discuss the Kennedy Center Initiative.
Funding for Arts Month: Interview with Erik Speakman, Speakman Management Consulting
October 8, 2009
Erik Speakman, of Speakman Management Consulting, talks about partnerships and sustainability for arts organizations and about his program on collaborations and partnerships during Funding for Arts Month.
Spotlight on Arts Funding in Georgia sheds light on grant priorities and the effect of the economic crisis on Georgia arts funders and recipient organizations surveyed earlier in 2009. Findings show the contrast between types of support that grantmakers award compared to what arts groups say they need most. The report includes an analysis of arts grantmaking in 2007, with lists of the 10 largest Georgia arts funders by assets and giving.
- Download the report
Key Facts on Georgia Foundations
September 2009
Overview
Assets held by Georgia foundations increased from $8.4 billion to $13.3 billion between 2002 and 2007, according to this new report. Lists of top 10 foundations by total giving and assets saw notable changes for 2007, in part due to newcomer the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation.
- Read the press release - Download the report
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We are pleased to announce that Val Porter has joined the Foundation Center-Atlanta as our new director. Val will oversee the Center's activities in the entire Southeast, continuing a 15-year history of service to the region. Before joining the Foundation Center, Val ran her own strategy and branding firm, Cultural Capital. She is a native of Huntsville, Alabama, and a resident of Smyrna, Georgia. Please join us in welcoming Val to the Center — stop by and say hello when you have a chance!
Scholarships are now available to assist representatives of under-resourced nonprofits for our full day seminars in 2010. If you represent a nonprofit organization in Georgia with a budget under $1,000,000, you are eligible to apply. Applications should be completed at least two weeks prior to the seminar date.
Lisa Cremin of the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund discusses the upcoming 
Erik Speakman, of Speakman Management Consulting, talks about partnerships and sustainability for arts organizations and about his 
