Allied For Impact

Jim Rhoden is a long time fixture in metro Atlanta community service. He's living his father Lloyd Rhoden's mantra - "Pay Your Civic Rent."

Founding and operating the Atlanta Community Food Bank for 36 years just wasn't enough for Bill Bolling. Now he's the driving force behind the Food Well Alliance.

The mission of Tommy Nobis Center is to empower individuals with disabilities through employment. Not only do the individuals we help to employ gain experience and independence through our programs but they feel a sense of community around them.

The WellStar Foundation acts as a supporting organization to WellStar Health System, the largest health system in Georgia. Through philanthropy, we reinvest 100 percent of the donations received toward achieving its vision of delivering world-class care to everyone, everywhere, every minute of every day.

Rich Cavagnaro, founded AdEdge Water Technologies with an eye toward community service as an integral part of his business strategy. AdEdge, and Rich as its CEO, have maintained that commitment and as a result, have made a whole series of community contributions with lasting global impact.

Aarti is the founder of Synergies Work, an organization dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities earn a livelihood. "It's not charity!"

Next season will be the 70th for the truly extraordinary Georgia Symphony Orchestra. This diverse Arts organization serves the families and communities of Greater North Georgia and Metro Atlanta providing audience members with a memorable experience at each and every one of its more than 20 annual concerts.

The Atlanta Opera's mission is to build the major international opera company Atlanta deserves, with a vision to reimagine opera.

Founded in 1979, The Atlanta Opera celebrates its 40th anniversary in the 2019-20 season. The Opera works with world-renowned singers, conductors, directors, and designers who seek to enhance the art form.

Under the leadership of internationally recognized stage director and Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. General & Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun, The Atlanta Opera expanded from three to four mainstage productions at Cobb Energy Centre and launched the acclaimed Discoveries series. In recent years, the company was recognized by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as part of its "Best of 2015" awards; it was nominated for an International Opera Award in 2016; and it won ArtsATL's 2019 Luminary Award for Community Engagement, recognizing its successful Veterans Program in partnership with The Home Depot Foundation.

Revved Up Kids was founded with a singular purpose: Equip children against predators.

We accomplish this by providing exceptional prevention training programs for children, teens, parents and youth-serving organizations. Each program is designed to teach participants who predators are, how they operate, how to be safer, and how to respond to a predator. Our programs focus on personal safety; many include self-defense for children and teens.

We work with private groups and child-serving organizations in the metro-Atlanta area, training thousands of children every year.

FODAC's mission is to provide durable medical equipment (DME) such as wheelchairs and hospital beds at little or no cost to individuals with disabilities and their families. We seek to enhance the quality of life for people of all ages who have any type of illness or physical disability. Since 1986, FODAC has collected and distributed more than 50,000 wheelchairs!