For the third straight year, volunteers from LOVE ATLANTA – a week-long program of city-wide service hosted by Passion City Church – showed up ready to serve on the Atlanta BeltLine! On Friday, June 29th, more than sixty volunteers joined us at Tanyard Creek Park on the Northside Trail, making significant progress on long-term ecosystem … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Pebble Tossers of the Adopt the Atlanta BeltLine Program
The Atlanta BeltLine is a hands-on program and our continued success would not be possible without the work of our amazing volunteers. Special to our numerous forms of volunteering, our Adopt the Atlanta BeltLine program features community groups who want to play a direct role in maintaining certain segments along the Atlanta BeltLine. The Pebble … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Nathaniel Evans
The Atlanta BeltLine is an exciting project, and it attracts a lot of amazing volunteers for a variety of reasons. Nathaniel Evans is one volunteer that not only enjoys helping the project along, but loves the spirit of volunteerism that comes along with working with other passionate volunteers. Drawn to the project by the opportunity … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Carly Queen
The great thing about our superstar volunteers is that they don’t just talk the talk about the Atlanta BeltLine – they walk the walk, too. One of these superstars is Carly Queen. Carly has taken her hands-on experience as a volunteer to the next level, organizing cleanups and walks along the Atlanta BeltLine and developing … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Ryne Raymond
The Atlanta BeltLine is an enormous program, and a lot of our projects could not get off the ground without the help of volunteers. Ryne Raymond is one of those volunteers – Ryne was involved with the Atlanta BeltLine before he even knew it was the Atlanta BeltLine. As an Inman Park resident, he’d bike … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Tom Gordon, Speakers’ Bureau member and festival volunteer
Our volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds and have all sorts of different interests, but they also have one thing in common: they are selfless. Tom Gordon is one of those volunteers. A self-proclaimed software geek, Tom has worked as a microbiologist, an economist, a statistician, a software engineer, and an officer in the … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Evan Ziegler, Community Engagement Superstar
An Atlanta native, Evan Ziegler took an early interest in architecture and transportation. He explored neighborhood developments as a kid and took drafting courses in high school. His first internship as an accounting student at the University of Georgia led him to discover that accounting might not be the career for him, so he decided … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Adopt the Atlanta BeltLine with Belvedere Condos and Dreamscape Designs
Jason Abbott loves the fact that his condo building, The Belvedere, has a front door onto the Atlanta BeltLine and into Piedmont Park. That “front door” has come a long way in the past few years thanks to the work of Jason and fellow residents of The Belvedere along with Mike Ferreira and his team … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Inman Alley of the Adopt the Atlanta BeltLine program
On sunny Saturday, March 16, Adopt the Atlanta BeltLine group Inman Alley hit the trail to pick up trash as part of their monthly clean-ups. The volunteer project comes in advance of the native grass planting now getting underway on the Eastside Trail. Inman Alley has adopted the segment of the Eastside Trail from N. … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Parsons Brinckerhoff, Heery International, and Mozley Park of the Adopt the Atlanta BeltLine program
Our very special Adopt the Atlanta BeltLine groups help to build this project a little more every time they get out on the trail for a clean-up. The following blog post highlights our three adopters who share responsibility for a stretch of interim hiking trail in southwest Atlanta – from I-20 north to Napoleon Drive. Here is … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Grinnell Lofts of the Adopt the Atlanta BeltLine program
Dennis and his wife Faye felt that they were destined to live on the Atlanta BeltLine from the time it was merely a kernel of an idea. After migrating south from Baltimore in 1997, they renovated a 100-year-old bungalow in Inman Park and, about ten years later, downsized to a condo in Grinnell Lofts directly … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Jasmine Amussen, Ambassador Team Leader
As a kid-turned-young-adult growing up in New Orleans, Jasmine couldn’t quite put her finger on what was missing in her life. She migrated to Portland, Oregon, where she met her boyfriend, Edward Smith, and the two of them moved to Atlanta together. As someone who never had a driver’s license, Jasmine always relied on her … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Concentrics Restaurant of the Adopt the Atlanta BeltLine Program
Stepping out the back door, Shireen Herrington watches the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail take shape from among the hot peppers and herbs in the chef’s garden behind her restaurant. Shireen is the manager at Two Urban Licks and feels a connection to her Austin, Texas roots when walking through the trails, linear greenspace, and art of the … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Lauren Cohen with the Atlanta BeltLine Speakers’ Bureau
Our superstar volunteers are one [really big] part of what makes building this project so enjoyable – and so do-able! Lauren Cohen is one of those volunteers who embraces the Atlanta BeltLine in her capacity as a Speakers’ Bureau member. With a background in real estate, the redevelopment aspect of the project really sparked her … Continue Reading →
Volunteer Spotlight: Elise Berk, Lead Organizer of the Speakers’ Bureau
Since Ryan Gravel first dreamt up the concept of the Atlanta BeltLine in 1999, the project has relied on grassroots supporters. We all know what that means: volunteers. Lots of volunteers. In this blog series, we take a moment to highlight some of the incredible people who give tirelessly to the Atlanta BeltLine purely out … Continue Reading →
