Look up! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s ATL Thinks! soaring into the future of aviation. ATL Thinks! is a 30-day innovation program designed to highlight Atlanta’s talented people and companies by connecting them with the world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International. Now in its second year, the program will take participants through a series of […]
South Fulton elementary school teacher Baiyina Jihad was searching for a way to encourage less violence in classrooms. The former Teach For America educator was playing with different ideas when she learned how much literacy is related to violence. Millions of adults in the U.S. lack basic literacy skills, with drastic consequences — not only […]
Goodie Nation is tackling global health issues, one hacker at a time Billions of people are affected by cancer and sexually transmitted diseases worldwide, and Goodie Nation is aiming to use technology to change that. Their three-month Pre-Accelerator program is where founders of socially-oriented tech startups see their ideas come to life. From there, these […]
Social impact pre-accelerator Goodie Nation is producing the Spring 2018 version of Goodie Impact Pre-Accelerator, a three-month program designed to help passionate leaders launch early-stage tech startups, open source projects, or digital marketing campaigns that save the world. This season’s theme is health, and the objective is for each team to come up with a […]
Village Capital Pathways, an initiative of venture firm Village Capital and global financial institution UBS, has launched its inaugural Atlanta program to help underrepresented founders of high-growth companies. The Atlanta program is being implemented locally by partner Goodie Nation, a social impact tech startup incubator, who helped identify the 10 startups in the 2018 cohort. […]