Stories tagged "Community Asset"
Community Notebook: “I wanted to create a space that feels like your living room”

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

“We got to get back to the basics.”

Self-reliance is the core of the Metro Atlanta Urban Farm philosophy, whether that’s nurturing a patch of tomatoes or okra in your backyard or securing a farm number to access USDA programs.

Private walls for public art

As murals to commemorate Atlanta’s painful history go up in South Atlanta and Grove Park, one resident poses a challenging question. Who decides what public art in neighborhood spaces should look like?

From “what if” to an election forum

Grove Park community members bring together District 3 and District 9 candidates before November election

“agency over their own food supply”

In a city with an abundance of both food deserts and good dirt, the Wylde Center seeks to educate residents about growing food and caring for the environment.

It doesn’t take long, if you start right

As the community engagement process for an APS-owned development drew to a close last year, some community members did not think the final proposal was the best option for the neighborhood. So they charted a different path forward.

Community Notebook: A Norcross community meeting spot with flavor and fun

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

Community Notebook: Soul food at Augie’s Cafe

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

“It opens up a different world.”

A Saturday morning ride through Collier Heights showcases the rich history and deep love community members have for this historic Black neighborhood.

A path lined with trees that are changing color and falling.
The roots are still strong

The closing note for the Tri-Cities Community Issue is both a love note and a call to action from East Point resident LeJoi Lane, who asks, “What will you use to help keep the community upright?”

Community Notebook: April 8, 2025

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

“We should’ve been at the table.”

NPUs frustrated with lack of community input in Westside Park renaming

Community Resources

Explore this resource hub where community members can share what they know with each other.

A smiling woman holds a wooden staff.
Tri-Cities through a new lens

We asked Canopy Atlanta Fellow Claudia Maturell to photograph her neighborhood. Here’s how that shifted her perspective of where she lives.

College Park First United Methodist Church in metro Atlanta, shown in the daytime.
A resource guide for Tri-Cities, by Tri-Cities

Find ways to connect with your neighbors, keep up with developments, and more—courtesy of our reporting and community listening respondents.

The places important to Tri-Cities, according to community members

Presenting the doctor’s offices, arts organizations, and other community assets that surfaced in our Tri-Cities listening and reporting.

An illustration of a map of Norcross shows restaurants, community resources, parks, and more.
The places important to Norcross, according to community members

Sharing Canopy Atlanta’s illustrated Norcross map, highlighting parks, restaurants, and community resources

Atlantans share their familial connections to South-View Cemetery

“If you look at the threads of the history of Atlanta, they’re woven into that place.”

On Memorial Drive, Le Nouveau Maquis serves up Togolese dishes, and then some

The West African restaurant feels like home to so many. The tasty turkey tail and cassava leaf soup will tell you why.

A family history of South Dekalb

To better understand how folks find their way in Atlanta and why they stay, Amiri Banks dives deep into the bedroom community of South DeKalb.

Birria tacos in Forest Park hit home

Birria on Jonesboro Road showcase increasingly visible diversity south of Atlanta

A new historical marker honors a Morehouse student who was lynched

Dennis Hubert’s story was a fading memory, before a community of dozens of Atlantans resurrected it

Bankhead Videos

Videos of the Bankhead + Grove Park community, produced by Canopy Atlanta.