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Global Growers Network (GGN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the local food system by supporting farmers from diverse backgrounds. We work with growers—many of whom bring deep agricultural knowledge and cultural food traditions—to provide access to land, training, and market opportunities. Through our network of community gardens and farms across metro Atlanta, GGN helps farmers build sustainable businesses while increasing access to fresh, locally grown food. Beyond farming, we engage the broader community through volunteer programs, educational experiences, and public events that connect people more directly to where their food comes from. By bridging growers and communities, Global Growers Network fosters economic opportunity, cultural exchange, and a more resilient, inclusive food system for Atlanta and beyond.

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Serving the Atlanta community since 1912, Alliance Française Atlanta is a member-supported 501c 3 non-profit organization with a mission of promoting the knowledge of French language and French-speaking cultures through educational and cultural programming. We are committed to teaching French, fostering cross-cultural understanding and enriching cultural life in Metro Atlanta. Our language school offers a full range of French courses for individuals, groups, businesses, and non-profit and governmental organizations. Our students learn French in a friendly, intimate setting, with class sizes ranging from 5 to 14 students. Our social and cultural calendar includes concerts, culinary events, film screenings, art exhibits and debates that are held at our Downtown and Roswell centers and at locations throughout the city in collaboration with our many cultural and educational partners.

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The Public Art Futures Lab, launched in 2022 by the Fulton County Arts & Culture, Public Art Program is dedicated to supporting artists working at the intersection of art and emerging technology. The Public Art Futures Lab serves as a collaborative space where artists, technologists, and community partners experiment with new tools and ideas through artist residencies, public art installations, and institutional partnerships. In addition to incubating new arts + tech projects, the Futures Lab extends its work across Fulton County, Georgia through outreach programs in libraries, senior centers, and arts centers, introducing communities to creative technologies and artistic techniques that help lower barriers to entry in the rapidly expanding field of digital and technology-driven art.

Public Art Futures Lab

Winner of The New York Times Best Theater of 2020, the Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities, and the Bloomberg Public Art Challenge, Out of Hand Theater works at the intersection of art, social impact, and civic engagement. We help create a more just world through programs that combine theater with information and conversation. Since 2001, Out of Hand has collaborated with dozens of community partners to produce programs that combine art to open hearts, information to open minds, and conversation to inspire action. All our work is developed and implemented in partnership with social justice organizations, government, businesses, and schools. Our programs include Equitable Dinners including We Hold These Truths, Shows in Homes, Community Collaborations, Creative Kids, and the Community Impact Lab.

Out of Hand Theater Atlanta

The Roots Down Regenerative OS is a data-driven framework that transforms traditional municipal land management into a model for climate resilience. By replacing high-maintenance “mow-and-blow” landscaping with regenerative urban landcare, the OS makes the case to turn underutilized public spaces into thriving food forests, pollinator habitats, and stormwater solutions.

The system focuses on three key outcomes: environmental (restore local biodiversity and reduce urban heat islands by replacing turf with green infrastructure), economic (reallocate existing budgets to support green-collar jobs and achieve long-term cost savings) and social (empowering residents and youth through hands-on education).

By embedding these practices into local policy, Roots Down provides a scalable “playbook” for cities to meet sustainability goals while building vibrant and resilient neighborhoods.

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With 2 million participants worldwide, 30,000 in the US, Climate Fresk is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about climate change through interactive, engaging and science-based workshops. Its mission is to empower individuals and organizations to understand the causes and consequences of climate change, and to inspire meaningful action, using a card-based learning experience grounded in reports from the IPCC reports (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Workshops are designed to be suitable for a wide range of audiences, from individuals and schools to businesses, non-profits, and public institutions.

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The Center for Civic Innovation strengthens community understanding, engagement, and power to create transformative policy change in Atlanta. We analyze legislation, government processes, and budgets and make that information accessible to the public. We bring residents together to learn and engage in research, discussions, and advocacy around complex local issues. And we support community-designed solutions that expand what public policy can look like.

Our work is built in direct relationship with Atlanta communities — in neighborhood meetings, at city hall, and in the spaces where residents make sense of decisions being made about their lives. Programs include ATLbudget.org, a public platform that makes Atlanta’s municipal budget searchable and comparable across years; Civics Academy, a curriculum that trains residents and organizers to navigate local government; VoteATL, a voting resource for Atlanta residents; and a weekly newsletter and explainer series that tracks what’s happening in Atlanta politics and policy each week.

Center for Civic Innovation

The Guild is a community-powered real estate developer that’s working to take land out of speculation and put it back into community hands.

We do this through two models: the Community Stewardship Trust (CST) and the People’s Community Land Trust (PCLT). Together, they form a solidarity economy where community ownership and governance turn land from a commodity into a commons, building local wealth and putting people, care, and belonging ahead of profit.

We create permanently affordable housing and commercial spaces, support locally rooted businesses, and open pathways for everyday people to co-own and govern neighborhood spaces. Our work blends development, cultural programming, and civic education—using real estate as a tool for belonging, collective memory, and community power.

From Atlanta-based projects like 918 Dill Avenue to national partnerships, The Guild is prototyping a new approach to land and development, grounded in economic democracy, reparative practice, and long-term stewardship.

At our core we ask: what’s possible when communities own and govern the spaces that shape their lives?

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 Atlanta Design Festival is a platform to celebrate, convene, & connect creative industries. The festival invites the brightest creative leaders and organizations to host installations, exhibitions, design and architecture tours, film screenings, conference panels and more, to showcase Atlanta as a global powerhouse and innovator of ideas. 

Atlanta Design Festival | Sept 26—Oct 4, 2026 | Atlanta, Georgia

Friends of Refugees is a nonprofit that has served for over 30 years as a trusted and caring navigator for refugees on their journey to abundant new life in America, because we want to see New Americans flourishing as our neighbors and friends. 

After limited government-sponsored resettlement services end, the real challenges of building a new life often begins. Our relational approach embraces each refugee family on the path to long-term success as American citizens, in four critical ways: language and literacy, childbirth and maternal health, employment and entrepreneurship, and healthy food access. Every year we help more than 1800 New Americans feel seen, supported, capable and confident. Our work is possible because of generous community donors, many regular volunteers, and a staff that represents the communities we serve.

Friends of Refugees