Cole Society Leadership Spotlight: James D. Anderson
We’re excited to spotlight Cole Society Leadership member James D. Anderson! Tell us about your role at Southern Company. I lead the accounting team at one of Southern Company Gas’ non-regulated businesses – SouthStar Energy Services. I also serve on the Board of Directors for the company’s sponsored credit union, as well as Treasurer of […]
‘We have to continue these conversations’
Jacob Ethel remembers the initial feeling of anger that swept over him when he first watched the video of George Floyd. He says he saw the “callousness” of the police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck and the surrounding officers who stood by and did nothing. “It was eye-opening for me,” he says. “Especially being […]
COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund Donor Spotlight
How did our COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund distribute more than $17 million dollars to the most in need in our community in a matter of weeks? With a lot of help from our friends like Lucy at BELUX Coffee Roasters. How did you hear about the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund? We are good […]
United Way’s YPL, LINC asks ‘How are you?’
George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man from Minneapolis, died May 25 after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a white police officer who held his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd’s death was captured on video, shared worldwide, and then set off a global movement of protests that quickly spread […]
Cottonelle rolls out #ShareASquare campaign, delivers toilet paper to United Way
Rarely is toilet paper ever something you give much thought to — until you’re out of it, that is. We are, as a country, facing an unprecedented crisis. The pandemic outbreak of the novel coronavirus has forced much of the world into an at least semi-quarantined state, and one of the most unlikely outcomes of […]
Community partners collaborate to help homeless students in Fulton
Think of a child in the Fulton County School System. He’s in fourth grade, in a few years, he’ll be in middle school and before you know it, he’ll be walking across the stage with diploma in hand. This little boy’s life hasn’t always been the easiest — his mother had difficulty keeping a full-time […]
The needs in Atlanta may have changed, but YMCA of Metro Atlanta continues to serve
By now, you’ve seen pictures, videos and heard stories about some of the scenes facing many of our hospitals around the United States — more recently a scene in Midtown Atlanta that spread around the Internet via social media. Doctors, nurses and staff file in to work another long day uncertain of what they may […]
Help serve those who serve us
Requests for help have flooded into Giving Kitchen — a nonprofit agency that provides emergency assistance to food service workers across Georgia — led by executive director Bryan Schroeder. In the first three days of the COVID-19 crisis, Giving Kitchen received more requests for assistance than all of 2018. While Giving Kitchen has a strong […]
Grant helps Open Hand Atlanta ‘weather the storm’ of COVID-19
Matthew Pieper and his team had to act quickly. There were more than 3,000 people in the Greater Atlanta region that relied on Open Hand Atlanta—he serves as its executive director currently and has been with the organization for a total of 11 years—for their meals each day. Open Hand Atlanta operates with a staff […]
United Way, local artist collaborate to help community in time of crisis
Artist Ronnie Land grew up in the wetlands of Jacksonville, Florida, but he said he gravitated toward Atlanta — there was something about its soul that he fell in love with. “I was coming up here and pulling pranks and doing pop-up shows in the mid-80s,” Ronnie, who professionally goes by “R.Land,” says. “I felt […]
