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A New Funder Lands in Atlanta, Carrying $1 Million and a 75-Year Track Record

The Cargill Foundation is making grants outside Minneapolis-St. Paul for the first time since 1951. Atlanta gets $1 million in year one, six initial partners, and an employee council that will help set the agenda.

October 14, 2026

Atlanta Has Until November 29 to Claim a Share of the $50 Million Cities Deliver Fund

Rockefeller and the OpenAI Foundation will give $50 million to cities using AI for public services. Grants run to $2 million, applications close November 29, and Atlanta gets to name its own problems.

October 14, 2026

Atlanta·Parties & Galas

Southern Company’s CEO Just Got Named a Hero for Taking On Homelessness in Atlanta

HOPE Atlanta gathered the city’s civic, corporate, and nonprofit leadership at Flourish Atlanta on October 8 for Heroes for Hope, its signature gala in the fight to prevent and end homelessness. The evening’s headline honor went to Chris Womack, chairman, president, and

October 13, 2026

Atlanta·Parties & Galas

5,000 Seniors, One Dance Floor: Atlanta’s Mayor Threw the City’s Most Joyful Ball for Its Elders

Atlanta’s glitziest guest list this fall did not belong to a fundraiser or a film premiere. It belonged to the city’s grandparents. Mayor Andre Dickens welcomed 5,000 seniors to the Mayor’s Senior Ball, the annual black-tie celebration that has become one of

October 13, 2026

Culture

From the NFL’s C-Suite to Hollywood’s Power Center: Dasha Smith Is CAA’s New COO

Hollywood’s most powerful talent agency just recruited from professional football’s front office. Creative Artists Agency has named Dasha Smith its chief operating officer, the agency announced October 5, adding one of the most accomplished Black executives in American business to the senior

October 13, 2026

Atlanta·Parties & Galas

Forty Years, $8.5 Million in Scholarships, One Room: Inside Atlanta’s 100 Honors Gala

100 Black Men of Atlanta turned 40 this month, and the city showed up to mark it. The organization’s 40th Anniversary 100 Honors Gala filled the Atlanta Marriott Marquis on Saturday, October 3, a black-tie evening of dinner, awards, silent auction, and

October 13, 2026

Generational Wealth

A Detroit Scientist Turned His Grandfather’s Death Into a $1.25 Million Federal Bet on Germ Detection

Dr. Darrell Marshall has been awarded a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation to advance Helios-1, the AI-powered device his Detroit company, Total Analysis, built to detect dangerous germs on surfaces in minutes instead

October 13, 2026

Houston·Parties & Galas

A Houston Brunch Just Raised $2.85 Million for Kids Fighting Cancer

No black tie, no ballroom gala, just brunch. And yet Sky High for Kids raised a record $2.85 million at its 11th annual Ladies Who Brunch on September 27 at The Revaire in Houston, the biggest single day in the organization’s history.

October 13, 2026

HBCU Giving

Warnock Just Delivered $97.1 Million to Put 10 HBCUs in the Research Big Leagues

Senator Raphael Warnock has announced $97.1 million in federal funding for science, technology, engineering, and math research at 10 historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions, the latest and largest single stroke in his campaign to close the research funding gap

October 13, 2026

Major Gifts

Shannon Sharpe and 19 Others Just Rewrote Savannah State’s Giving Story

Savannah State University has recognized 20 donors and donor couples whose lifetime contributions to the institution exceeded $100,000, naming them the inaugural members of the Richard R. Wright, Sr. Giving Society. Together, the group has contributed $4,738,405 to the university, funding scholarships,

October 12, 2026

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A New Funder Lands in Atlanta, Carrying $1 Million and a 75-Year Track Record

Atlanta Has Until November 29 to Claim a Share of the $50 Million Cities Deliver Fund

Southern Company’s CEO Just Got Named a Hero for Taking On Homelessness in Atlanta

5,000 Seniors, One Dance Floor: Atlanta’s Mayor Threw the City’s Most Joyful Ball for Its Elders

From the NFL’s C-Suite to Hollywood’s Power Center: Dasha Smith Is CAA’s New COO

Forty Years, $8.5 Million in Scholarships, One Room: Inside Atlanta’s 100 Honors Gala

A Detroit Scientist Turned His Grandfather’s Death Into a $1.25 Million Federal Bet on Germ Detection

A Houston Brunch Just Raised $2.85 Million for Kids Fighting Cancer

Warnock Just Delivered $97.1 Million to Put 10 HBCUs in the Research Big Leagues

Shannon Sharpe and 19 Others Just Rewrote Savannah State’s Giving Story

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