A little lesson about Glen Jackson
Jackson Spalding has enjoyed a good run lately. We were named to the AJC’s Top Work Places in Atlanta and then the Holmes Report named us Best Small Agency to work for. (If you want to find out for yourself, we have nine jobs posted right now — send me your resume). Needless to say […]
Register for AIDS Walk Atlanta 2011 on May 1
Jon Santos has already started planning for AIDS Walk Atlanta 2011 with a flash mob at the Dogwood Festival’s main stage in Piedmont Park today. I joined a handful of videographers to capture footage that will soon be transformed into a promotional video to promote registration beginning May 1. Fortunately, there were a couple of […]
Midtown Rotary honors AID Atlanta, Volunteer of the Year
Midtown Atlanta Rotary Club honored Walter Bradley yesterday as the 2011 Barbara B. Rose Volunteer of the Year. This is the fifth year Midtown Atlanta Rotary Club has honored a local volunteer with a ceremony and donations to the volunteer’s nominating organization. Walter was selected from 18 nominations, the most ever received by Midtown Atlanta […]
Mr. Long goes to Washington
Words cannot describe how honored and humbled I am to have dined with Rep. John Lewis and tour his offices in Washington, D.C. yesterday. As I described earlier this week, I was invited — on what may have been a whim — by Rep. Lewis to visit him in D.C. I wasn’t certain at the […]
Discovering what Willie McKinney ‘didn’t know’
It was one month ago today that I was lucky enough to join the AID Atlanta Board of Directors. That day the AID Atlanta staff asked four clients to share their personal journeys. Each one told a heart-breaking story. Despite living with a life-threatening disease, each person shared their hope, love and joy. I was […]