| A Cappella Books |
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| A Cappella Books has been in-town Atlanta's only full-service general bookstore, buying and selling new, used, rare and out-of-print titles since 1989. Located in Atlanta's bohemian neighborhood, Little 5 Points, A Cappella Books is widely known for an unparalleled selection of Beat literature, progressive political and counterculture books, and, as the name suggests, books about music. At A Cappella Books, we don't think of our customers as mass culture consumers. And we don't think of our books merely as merchandise. We like to think of the books as permanent literature, books you will find just as enjoyable, interesting and important years from now as you do today. A Cappella regularly present authors who reflect our unique character. |
| Agnes Scott College |
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| Agnes Scott College educates women to think deeply, live honorably and engage the intellectual and social challenges of their times. Students are drawn to Agnes Scott by its excellent academic reputation, exceptional faculty, and metropolitan Atlanta location; offering myriad cultural and experiential learning opportunities. A diverse and growing residential community of scholars, this highly selective liberal arts college encourages study abroad and presents its curriculum with international context. Agnes Scott College delivers on its promise: The World for Women. |
| Alliance Franaise d'Atlanta |
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| Alliance Franaise d'Atlanta, is the French-American cultural center serving the Atlanta community as the premiere provider of French language and culture since 1912. Alliance Franaise d'Atlanta is a non-profit organization committed to the study of French language and cultural exchange promoting French culture representing France and 50 Francophone countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. We are committed to education and cultural outreach to communities within and around Atlanta and to fostering cross-cultural understanding. Our programs consist of educational and cultural programs. We provide French language classes for all levels and cultural programs in the form of art exhibit, lecture, concerts, movies, trips to French speaking countries and more. |
| American Institute for Managing Diversity |
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| The American Institute for Managing Diversity (AIMD) was founded by Dr. R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. in 1984 as a non-profit entity to serve as a diversity management advocate and as a resource for those interested in affecting sustainable change within their environments. Today, AIMD is America's foremost non-profit diversity management organization. It continues to address the challenging issues of differences, similarities and tensions within organizations through a year-long series of activities, designed to expand and clarify ideas about diversity management. |
| American Jewish Committee |
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| American Jewish Committee (AJC) has long been Building Bridges of Understanding with local, national and international leadership. For more than 60 years, the Atlanta chapter has been a pioneering human relations agency, bringing together people of diverse backgrounds, based on shared values and mutual understanding. Through education and innovative programs, such as our award winning Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, media outreach and extensive diplomatic advocacy, AJC works to advance freedom, liberty, pluralism and mutual respect. |
| Art Institute of Atlanta |
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| The Art Institute of Atlanta is a private college of creative professional studies offering associate's, bachelor's, and diploma programs to prepare students for careers in design, media arts, culinary arts, and fashion and retail management. During the past year, The Art Institute added diploma programs in advertising design, commercial photography, digital design, video skills, web design, culinary arts, and residential interiors to its offerings, which include audio production, digital media/video production, game art & design, graphic design, interactive media design, interior design, media arts & animation, and more. The college's 2,700 students include both recent high school graduates and students returning to complete their education or to get a second degree. About 75% of its students come from Georgia with the remaining students representing 48 states and 33 foreign countries. The Art Institute's career focus is reflected in its graduate success: of all 2005 graduates available for employment, 88.1% were working in a field related to their program of study within six months of graduation. The Art Institute also offers a non-credit community and professional education program with workshops in topics ranging from culinary arts to the digital camera and web site design. |
| Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation |
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| Formed in 1995, the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is focused on improving early childhood development, enhancing education, preserving green space, sustaining the arts and sparking collaboration among its nonprofit partners, primarily in Atlanta. Arthur M. Blank is owner & CEO of the Atlanta Falcons and Georgia Force. He co-founded The Home Depot, the worlds largest home improvement retailer, in 1978 and retired from the company as co-chairman in 2001. Through his generosity, the foundation, along with Blank and his wife's personal giving, has granted over $220 million to various charitable organizations. |
| Atlanta History Center |
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| Atlanta History Center, founded in 1926 as the Atlanta Historical Society, includes permanent and traveling exhibitions in the Atlanta History Museum, two historic houses (Tullie Smith Farm and Swan House mansion), archives/special libraries, and 33 acres of beautiful gardens and wooded trails. The Atlanta History Center offers historical experiences for all ages, integrating history, education and life-enrichment programs. |
| Atlanta Press Club |
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| The Atlanta Press Club was founded in 1964 and has grown to become one of the largest and most dynamic professional journalism associations in the country. Our membership encompasses Atlantas burgeoning media community - print, broadcast and online, big and small, national and local media outlets. Over half of our 800-plus members are working journalists. The balance is public relations professionals, educators, retirees and students. As a professional and networking organization, APC hosts educational and social programs every month. Our monthly programs take a challenging look at how journalists are doing their jobs. Recent topics have included "The 24-Hour News Cycle," "Covering the Suburbs," and "Anonymous Sources." Each month the Press Club also hosts a local or national newsmaker to speak to its membership. Recent speakers have included Former President Jimmy Carter, Shepard Smith of FOX News Channel and Arthur Blank, owner and CEO of the Atlanta Falcons and the Georgia Force. |
| Atlanta Symphony Orchestra |
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| The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is considered one of America's leading orchestras, known for the excellence of its live performances, presentations, renowned choruses, and its impressive list of Grammy Award-winning recordings. The leading cultural organization in the southeast, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra serves as the cornerstone for artistic development and music education in the region. Under the creative partnership of Music Director Robert Spano, Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles, and President and CEO Allison Vulgamore, the orchestra and audiences have been invigorated through innovative programming, recordings, and visual enhancements. Spano and the ASO have performed nearly 100 contemporary works, including seven ASO-commissioned world premieres, two additional world premieres, and one US premiere. |
| Breman Jewish Heritage Museum |
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| The Breman Jewish Heritage Museum explores universal themes of human dignity and respect for others through the lens of the Jewish experience. Through its archives, exhibitions, educational resources and public programs, the museum preserves, documents, and interprets Jewish life in Georgia and the Holocaust. The museum houses galleries on the Holocaust and the history of Jews in Atlanta, revolving special exhibitions, archival holdings from throughout the state of Georgia, a library of educational resources, and the Lillian and A.J. Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education. |
| Clayton State University |
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| Clayton State University is located 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta in a beautiful lakeside setting. The University currently offers four masters degree programs and more than 30 baccalaureate degree programs. With an enrollment of 6,000 students, the university is ranked by <em>U.S. News & World Report</em> as having the most diverse student population among comprehensive baccalaureate-level colleges and universities in the southern United States. Undergraduate classes and an MBA cohort are also offered in Fayette County. A national pioneer in ubiquitous mobile computing, Clayton State was the third public university to require that each student have access to a notebook computer. Clayton State University is the only university in the country adjacent to both state and national archives facilities: the Georgia Archives and the National Archives and Records Administration, Southeast Region. The world-class music recital venue, Spivey Hall, is located on the universitys campus. The athletics program features 12 sports and competes in NCAA Division II in the Peach Belt Athletic Conference. The Clayton State Universitys womens basketball team went 29-6 in 2006/2007 and advanced to the NCAA Division II Final Four in March 2007. |
| Dekalb Medical |
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| A leader in cancer, heart attack treatment and orthopedics, DeKalb
Medical is a non-profit hospital system serving half a million patients
annually. Founded in Atlanta in 1961, the system includes the 451-bed
DeKalb Medical at North Decatur, which was named in the top 5% of all US
hospitals in 2009 for clinical excellence by HealthGrades(r). DeKalb
Medical at North Decatur was also 5-Star rated by HealthGrades in 2009
for heart attack treatment, treatment of stroke, total hip replacement,
hip fracture repair, peripheral vascular bypass, and treatment of pneumonia and sepsis. In addition, the system also operates the 40-bed DeKalb Medical Long Term Acute Care in downtown
Decatur and the 100-bed DeKalb Medical at Hillandale in Lithonia. |
| Georgia Aquarium |
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| The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia, is the worlds largest with more than eight million gallons of water and the largest collection of aquatic animals. The mission of the Georgia Aquarium is to be an entertaining, educational and scientific institution featuring exhibits and programs of the highest standards, offering engaging and exciting guest experiences and promoting the conservation of aquatic biodiversity throughout the world. |
| Georgia Center for the Book |
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| Founded in 1920, the Georgia Center for the Book , based at the DeKalb County Public Library, is the statewide affiliate of the Library of Congress with a mission of serving libraries, literacy and literature. We sponsor two popular literary competitions for students, develop and encourage programming for and other literary-related organizations and sponsor some 90 literary programs each year, bringing more than 125 authors to metro Atlanta and the state for free public events. |
| Georgia Council for International Visitors |
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| The Georgia Council for International Visitors (GCIV) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "connecting Georgians to the world" since 1962. Our mission is to build cross-cultural understanding and mutually beneficial personal and professional relationships between Georgians and leading citizens from around the world. This is achieved through a variety of programs, including professional exchange programs, cultural orientations and home hospitality, networking opportunities, community education programs, and travel programs. GCIV works primarily with emerging leaders from around the world brought to this country under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State, developing professional programs for hundreds of high level international leaders in a broad spectrum of program areas each year. Our focus on citizen diplomacy provides Georgians with unique opportunities to share expertise and friendship with visitors from around the globe. GCIV also serves as the Foreign Policy Association's state coordinator. |
| Georgia Perimeter College |
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| Georgia Perimeter College, the third largest institution of the University System of Georgia, serves more than 20,000 students through six locations in metro Atlanta, Alpharetta, Clarkston, Dunwoody, Decatur, Lawrenceville and Newton County. GPC boasts one of the most diverse populations in the USG system, with students representing more than 140 countries. GPC offers degrees in 39 liberal arts programs; degrees and certificates in career programs; Continuing Education and Corporate Training Certificate Programs. We are one of the top 100 associate degree-granting institutions in the nation and the 20th fastest-growing two-year college in the United States. GPC offers the most online courses of any educational institution in Georgia, and has the most Joint Enrollment students. The Chattahoochee Review literary magazine is a nationally recognized literary journal sponsored by Georgia Perimeter College. Our purpose, a twenty-five year literary tradition, is to publish original writing of literary merit. Each quarter, we publish the best in creative writing, essays, fiction, literary criticisms; everything you've come to expect from a celebrated literary magazine. The Writers Institute brings together the College's writers and literary publications to create a new center for the literary arts at GPC. |
| German Cultural Center in Atlanta |
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| The German Cultural Center in Atlanta has been offering high-standard German language courses and cultural programs for over 30 years. Building a bridge between German-speaking countries and Atlanta, The German Cultural Center is a non-profit organization that welcomes all those who are interested in learning and appreciating the many aspects of German life, language and culture. |
| High Museum of Art |
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| The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. With over 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American art; significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. The Highs Media Arts department produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent and classic cinema. |
| Istanbul Center |
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| Istanbul Center is the largest Turkish-American organization in the southeast US. We serve metro Atlanta and the southeast, as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization established in 2002. We seek to build bridges between individuals of different cultural backgrounds, particularly Turkish and American. We promote the use of dialogue to proactively contribute to solving educational, cultural, environmental, social and humanitarian issues. We do this by creating opportunities for children and adults to engage in dialogue about other cultures and their own. With outreach throughout the southeast, our major areas of concentration are education, culture and humanitarian works. Our name comes from the nature of the city of Istanbul. Istanbul is a city where more than 15 million people with various backgrounds, languages, religions and cultures live together in peace. Istanbul's unique connectivity of Europe and Asia has allowed the city to be embellished with a richness of history and culture rarely found elsewhere in the world. |
| Jimmy Carter Library and Museum |
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| The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is the only presidential library located in the Southeast. The facility features author lectures, educational programs, a full-size replica of the Oval Office and the Nobel Peace Prize. The presidential archives is a repository of approximately 27 million pages of Jimmy Carter's White House material, papers of administration associates, including documents, memoranda, correspondence, etc. There are also 1/2 million photographs, and hundreds of hours film, audio and video tape. |
| Lumiere |
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| Lumiere offers one of the world's most diverse, photographic programs. The gallery features the work of more than 75 master photographers, including vintage and contemporary prints. Its image collection is the largest in the southeastern US. Subjects vary from landscape and portraiture, to abstractions and architecture, in black and white as well as color. Regular gallery exhibitions are complimented by extensive educational programming. This includes lectures, panel discussions and film screenings on artists, their work and periods in the evolution of photography. The lecture and panel discussion series is typically held in partnership with major museums. |
| Margaret Mitchell House & Museum |
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| The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum was founded in 1990 to save and preserve the house where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote the book Gone With the Wind. On August 1, 2004, the Margaret Mitchell House merged with the Atlanta History Center (AHC). As a result, the AHC oversees the operation of the two-acre site which includes the Margaret Mitchell House, Gone With the Wind Movie Museum, Visitors Center, Museum Shop and The Center for Southern Literature. Tours of the exhibits tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond the book and movie, including her journalism career, philanthropy and family history. The Center for Southern Literature, the programming division of the MMH, preserves the legacy of Margaret Mitchell through weekly literary author programs, creative writing classes for adults and youth, and the administration of the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Program. |
| Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund |
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| The Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund was created in 1992 as a partnership between the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta (TCF) to help small and medium-sized arts organizations overcome hurdles to their success and grow into strong, self-sustaining institutions. For these vital organizations that give so much to Atlanta, the Arts Fund provides stabilization. The mission of the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund is to: stabilize and strengthen small and midsized arts organizations; leverage resources that support the funding of arts in our region; provide leadership to foster relationships locally and nationally that advance solutions for the arts in our region. |
| Public Broadcasting Atlanta |
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| Public Broadcasting Atlanta (PBA) offers a series of lectures recorded either at the PBA studios, or by world-class cultural and educational organizations in and outside Atlanta. |
| Southern Center for International Studies |
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| The Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS), founded in 1962, is a nonprofit educational institution based in Atlanta, Georgia and dedicated to increasing the public's awareness and understanding of other countries, international issues and the global environment. Its primary mission is to internationalize the thinking of Americans. Each year the Center convenes more than 50 conferences, seminars, and briefings with world leaders and experts in international affairs. The Center also develops and distributes timely educational materials for use in schools, colleges, and the military. The Center seeks to inform. It does not take political positions or attempt to influence policy. |
| The Theosophical Society in Atlanta |
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| The Theosophical Society in Atlanta is a local chartered lodge of the Theosophical Society in America and the International Theosophical Society (Adyar). The Theosophical Society is a worldwide organization that was founded in New York on November 17, 1875. The Society seeks to bring people together; to reconcile the religions, philosophies, and sciences of both East and West; and to increase awareness of the Inner Reality present in every human being. As individuals we come together to share our diverse viewpoints, but we are also united by our acceptance of its objects (listed below), by our dedication to promoting brotherhood, and by our efforts to foster religious understanding and cooperation. We hold that truth should be sought by study, reflection and service, and not imposed by authority as a dogma. Peace is our watchword, as truth is our aim.
The Atlanta Lodge was founded on November 23, 1916 with twenty-six charter members. Over the years we have explored many themes in science, religion, and philosophy. Please join us; we welcome all newcomers and perspectives and walks of life.
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| Zoo Atlanta |
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| Zoo Atlanta, an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), inspires public value and protection of wildlife by providing an educational, engaging family experience, committing to critical conservation projects and applying world-class dedication to the stewardship of animals living in naturalistic habitats. One of only four zoos in the U.S. exhibiting giant pandas, Zoo Atlanta recently welcomed the birth of its first cub, Mei Lan. Other highlights include a preeminent great ape collection, featuring a rare set of mother-reared gorilla twins, a world-renowned herpetology department, and Wild Like Me, an innovative play space sponsored by Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. |
