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What does it take to cover Atlanta the way residents actually live it?⁠ ⁠ For six years, Canopy Atlanta has listened first, then trained neighbors to report. That’s 48 Community Reporting Fellows and more than 200 Documenters at public meetings across five counties, all paid for their work.⁠ ⁠ This giving season, every dollar you give is matched thanks to NewsMatch and our local partner, the Listening Post Collective. Help us keep Atlanta covered.⁠ ⁠ Give through the link in bio.

A single street separates Collier Heights from Bowen Homes. On one side, children grew up watching Herman J. Russell and Christine King Farris drive through the neighborhood like ordinary neighbors. On the other, a second-grader once asked his teacher for money, not for candy, but to buy noodles for himself and his little sister while his mother had been gone for days.⁠ ⁠ Community Journalist Genia Billingsley traces how two neighborhoods separated by only a few blocks ended up with two very different futures, and why that was never an accident.⁠ ⁠ ✍️ Genia Billingsley⁠ 🎨 Khoa Tran⁠ ⁠ Read it at the link in bio.

Canopy Atlanta was proud to sponsor Refuge Coffee Co.’s Refuge Run on September 19. The event included a 5K, a 1K, and a color run. ☕🏃🏾‍♀️ Refuge Coffee Co. helped lay the groundwork for our Clarkston reporting. Before a single story was published, we spent more than eight weeks listening to residents talk about immigration, community development, and the cost of living. In 2025, Refuge co-hosted our Clarkston Community Social, where we shared what we heard and invited neighbors to help shape the coverage as editorial board members and fellows. Thank you to Refuge Coffee Co. and everyone who came out to run, walk, and cheer. 💛

"What will happen to us?" That's the question Muzhda Oriakhil keeps hearing from the women in her moms circle, from her neighbors, even from people she passes on the sidewalk. Legally resettled refugees, asylum seekers, green card holders—people who did everything right. As ICE activity has escalated nationwide, clinicians and community leaders in Clarkston say that anxiety is surging in a community already carrying the weight of trauma, and on top of that, navigating a mental health system that was never built to hold them. Clarkston Fellow Nushrat Nur and Gray Chapman report on what that looks like on the ground. ✍️ Gray Chapman and Nushrat Nur 📷 Nushrat Nur Read it at the link in bio.

Last week, you doubled every gift to our Documenters on Duty program through NewsMatch. Thank you for that. This month we're celebrating six years of Canopy Atlanta and ten communities where neighbors have trained as journalists, documented public meetings, and told their own stories. We're over $1,500 raised, and our Neighbors Make the Difference campaign runs through June 30. There's still time to be part of it. Donate at the link in bio.

Today’s the last day every gift to Documenters on Duty gets matched dollar-for-dollar by NewsMatch—your $25 becomes $50, your $50 becomes $100. Atlanta Documenters are your neighbors who sit through zoning hearings, transit meetings, and public safety briefings across Metro Atlanta every week—taking fact-checked notes so local government decisions don’t happen in the dark. This is part of our Neighbors Make the Difference campaign, celebrating six years of community journalism across ten Atlanta neighborhoods. While the match ends tonight, the work doesn’t. Link in bio to give before midnight.

NeighborFest ATL was everything. Thank you to everyone who came out Saturday to celebrate six years of community journalism with us. You showed up, and it meant the world to us. A huge congratulations to Dorothy Woods, whose story on Grove Park’s tax allocation districts won Story of the Year. Her work is exactly why this all matters. One more thing before we close out the weekend: you have until Friday, June 19th to double your impact. All donations made this week will be matched by NewsMatch for our Documenters on Duty program, as part of our larger Neighbors Make the Difference campaign. Six years in. Ten communities. The neighbors make the difference. Donate at the link in bio. 📷 Krystle Chanel

NeighborFest ATL is THIS Saturday, June 13 at @createatl! We'll have community conversation, a keynote, and a special recognition of our journalism fellows. Six years in, we're still here because our neighbors showed up. This month, we're raising $10,000 to keep that going. Donations made the week of June 13 to 19 will be matched through NewsMatch for our Documenters on Duty program. That's double the impact you'll have on journalism by community, for community. Come through, give what you can, and tell a neighbor. RSVP at the link in bio.

Atlanta neighborhood leaders, this one's for you. Neighbors Together is a free, half-day leadership training for current and emerging community leaders from across metro Atlanta. This year's theme, Thriving Together, focuses on connecting the people, partnerships, and resources already in your community.⁠ ⁠ Saturday, June 6 | 10a–2p⁠ St. Luke's Episcopal Church⁠ 435 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta 30308⁠ ⁠ Free to attend. Breakfast, lunch, and door prizes included. Register at the link in bio.

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