Company or Product Name:
Atlanta Community Food Bank
Name and Title of Person to be Interviewed:
Cameron Turner, Director of Institutional Giving
Guest BIO:
Cameron Turner applies her diverse leadership and fundraising experience as the Director of Institutional Giving for the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Driven by her passion to serve the impoverished in Atlanta, Ms. Turner oversees corporate and foundation relations along with special events and, with her team, is responsible for raising over $8.4 million in funding each year to address the needs of the hungry and homeless across North Georgia. Before joining the Food Bank, she served as the Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations for the Atlanta Mission and as a Development Officer for the Devereux Georgia Treatment Network.
Over the last 15 years, Ms. Turner has dedicated her life and career to those in need throughout Atlanta and North Georgia. Her vast experience in the non-profit sector has made her an expert in donor relations. This includes corporate partnerships, foundation relations, major donor solicitation, volunteer management, and special event execution.
Topics/Questions to Discuss:
Tangerine Tango Fashion Show
-What was the event?
-How much money did the Food Bank raise?
Legends of Atlanta Roast
-Explain this Biennial event
-Who is being honored this year?
-Can anyone purchase tickets?
-What’s the Food Bank’s connection to the restaurant industry?
Outreach
-Can you explain how the Food Bank works? How does the organization get food into the community?
-How can people help? What ways can you volunteer and give back?
-With the holidays approaching, what’s the best way to make a difference in the lives of those who may not have food to put on the table each day.
Web Site and Social Media Links:
acfb.org
@acfb (twitter and Instagram)
Atlanta Community Food Bank (Facebook)
Company or Product Name:
Carré d’artistes Atlanta
Name and Title of Person to be Interviewed:
Brenda Fannin
Guest BIO:
Owner and Gallerista of Buckhead’s newest art gallery called Carré d’artistes Atlanta. She walked away from a very lucrative career as a financial and technology professional who had big roles at Fortune 50 Companies to pursue her passion in the Art industry. She believes in that living and working in your passion and purpose, brings success in abundance.
All of the artwork at Carré d’artistes Atlanta are original. There are no prints, lithographs, serigraphs, or giclée art. The gallery offers a variety of styles and sizes by more than 16 international and local artists. Carré d’artistes is all about one thing: making art accessible to all. An ambitious, generous project that respects the artists involved. Carré d’artistes brand was created on September 11, 2001 in Aix-en-Provence. The brand has been well developed since, now counting 35 contemporary art galleries all around the world.
Carré d’artistes Atlanta offers many services in addition to selling affordable one-of-a-kind fine art, including collaborating with home and commercial interior designers and individuals to fill their wall space with a look and feel that brings the right energy and elegance to their homes and businesses.
Topics/Questions to Discuss:
taking the right risk to pursue your dream
second time careers
working with millennials the right way
Web Site and Social Media Links:
www.carredartistesatlanta.com
Company or Product Name:
BuckheadView LLC (Product is BuckheadView.com online news service)
Name and Title of Person to be Interviewed:
John Schaffner, founder/owner/editor
Guest BIO:
After a life-time career in newspaper journalism, and with no intention to ever “retire,” John Schaffner in 2011 launched BuckheadView, an online news site covering news of interest and importance to residents of Atlanta’s Buckhead community.
Schaffner began his professional journalism career in the early ’60s, when he joined the St. Petersburg Times fresh from Florida State University. In the years that followed, he moved from there to The Palm Beach Post and then to The Philadelphia Inquirer prior to joining The Atlanta Constitution as Managing Editor in 1977.
From 1982-2001 Schaffner was a public relations/marketing professional in the Atlanta market, all but 5 of those years as head of his own agency, Corporate Image Group, Inc.
Schaffner moved into community journalism in 2001 as the founding editor of The Story group of 5 weekly newspapers. In 2006, he became the founding editor of The Reporter Newspapers’ 4 bi-weekly newspapers. He founded BuckheadView.com online news service in April 2011 at the age of 70.
Since moving into Atlanta community journalism 15 years ago, Schaffner has attended nearly every major community meeting and event in the areas he has covered.
Topics/Questions to Discuss:
1) What brought you to found BuckheadView?
2) You now are 75, how many hours a week do you put into this work?
3) I have heard you are leaving Atlanta and moving to Florida, when and where?
4) Is there a particular reason you have decided to move?
5) What will happen to BuckheadView?
6) What are you going to miss most about Buckhead, Atlanta and your work with BuckheadView?
7)Do you plan to finally retire or do you plan to do something like BuckheadView on Amelia Island?
8) Do you have any parting thoughts about the future of business, growth, direction, community life and politics in Buckhead and Atlanta?
Web Site and Social Media Links:
www.BuckheadView.com
Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter
Company or Product Name:
Simply Buckhead Magazine
Name and Title of Person to be Interviewed:
Joanne Hayes
Guest BIO:
Joanne Hayes is a 20-year veteran of the publishing industry, having worked as an Account Executive for an award-winning Journal Register Company newspaper group, Southern Rhode Island Newspapers, and as the Marketing Director of SO Rhode Island, a publication of the award-winning magazine company Providence Media.
Simply Buckhead Magazine was conceived and began publication in 2010, with Joanne at the helm as Publisher and Founder. She also currently serves as the Co-VP of Programs on the Board of Directors of the Buckhead Business Association, and a Member of the newly-formed Diversity and Inclusion Council of the Atlanta Hawks organization.
Joanne and her team launched a second publication this year, 17th South, covering Midtown and surrounding communities.
Topics/Questions to Discuss:
New issue of Simply Buckhead
Launch of 17th South
Web Site and Social Media Links:
www.simplybuckhead.com
Twitter and Instagram @SimpplyBuckhead
Facebook – LivingWellAtl
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