08/18/2026
For the first half of this year, the FIFA World Cup was the most anticipated global event. In Atlanta, the spotlight was especially bright.
Fortunately, we did not shrink under that pressure. Atlanta rose to the occasion. Why? Because well before the World Cup, a collective of nonprofits, city officials, and other organizations had already answered the call to collaborate and invest more deeply in community.
As Mayor Dickens often says, “Atlanta is a group project.” The World Cup gave our city a chance to put that idea into action by testing our response model on a large scale.
Read more about what we learned and what’s to come in our story.