The Center of Innovation is a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of Economic Development that provides a wide range of services and programs to businesses of all types and sizes. One area of focus is Agriculture – they offer AgTech companies a complimentary concierge-type service to help them grow and expand their businesses. David Nuckolls, Executive Director and Chris Chammoun, Director of AgTech, discuss the Center’s work.

Patient Advocate Foundation is a national organization which provides case management services and financial aid to Americans with chronic, life-threatening and debilitating illnesses. PAF has provided direct assistance over the past 25 years to more than 1.5 million seriously ill patients. Erin Bradshaw, Chief of Mission Delivery and Beth Moore, Executive Vice President of Corporate Communications, discuss their work.

Whitney Oeltmann and Vince Zangaro from Dementia Spotlight Foundation talk about their work and the 9th annual Alzheimer’s Music Fest in Atlanta February 4th.

Places in Peril 2022

Mark McDonald, President and CEO of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, discusses the 2022 Places in Peril list of 10 historic structures in Georgia that are in danger of being torn down and efforts to save them.

Medicine Bow is a 35 acre wilderness school tucked into the Chattahoochee National Forest in the mountains of north Georgia near Dahlonega. The owner and teacher, Mark Warren, guides students toward their own unique relationship with nature through the Earth lore accumulated by the Native Americans, Cherokee in particular.

GA Gives offers every Georgia nonprofit the chance to be part of a worldwide end-of-year giving-season kickoff, and the tools to make it a revenue-generating success. The Georgia Center for Nonprofits is serves as Georgia’s official #GivingTuesday campaign organizer and Karen Beavor, GCN President and CEO, and Lee Ann Else, Director of Development at Health M Powers, a nonprofit organization that promotes healthy habits for children, discuss this year’s effort.

Currently there are 300 children in GA with no adoptive family, 55% of those waiting children are teens. November is National Adoption Month and this year’s theme is “Every Conversation Matters”. Deborah Burrus, State Adoption Director for Georgia Division of Family & Children Services, discusses adoption.

Atlanta Community Food Bank
The Atlanta Community Food Bank works with more than 700 nonprofit partners—including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, shelters and senior centers—to distribute over 67 million meals to more than 1 million people in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and North Georgia. CEO Kyle Waide talks about their work.

UGA’s Jeff Springston discusses their new Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television, and Digital Media Degree, the first in the state.

The Georgia Public Library Service empowers libraries to improve the lives of all Georgians.
The innovative, scalable technology and resources we provide saves libraries money and enables them to provide great service to all patrons, no matter where they live. Julie Walker, State Librarian, discusses the services of Georgia’s libraries.