Today we honored the great Martin Luther King and all those who seek to serve with this Special Episode dedicated to lifting others up and serving your community.
Dominique Love is the CEO and founder of two Atlanta businesses:  Corporate Community Outsourcing (CCO) and the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival.   CCO is a philanthropic consulting agency that helps corporations and nonprofits maximize their community impact.  Since creating CCO in 2003, Love and her team have helped dozens of Fortune 500 companies, including American Express Publishing, The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, The Home Depot, Newell Rubbermaid, sanofi-aventis, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and WellPoint, build strategic community investment programs.
The CCO team has also worked with notable nonprofit organizations, including Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Foundation, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Hands On Atlanta, Grady Health System, Jewish Family & Career Services, Southeastern Council on Foundations, Quality Care for Children and United Way, to help them achieve fundraising success and stronger, more engaged board members.
In 2010, Love and her business partner, Elizabeth Feichter, turned their passion for food, drink and Southern culture into the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival.  Presented by FOOD & WINE magazine, the Atlanta Festival is the first culinary weekend in the nation focused exclusively on the Southern region.
This four-day event, which debuted in May 2011, is designed by the region’s leading culinary talents and offers guests the opportunity to participation in learning experiences – classes, tasting seminars and panel discussions – tasting experiences, dinners and special events.  The 2012 Festival will take place May 10 – 13, 2012 in Midtown, Atlanta.
Ann Jacobs-Long, Director, and Zenobia Godschalk, PR and Communications manager, talked about the Women In Technology’s Girls Get IT program, which collaborates with the Georgia business community to inspire girls in middle and high school to choose careers in science, technology, engineering and math.  Why? Because the statistics are alarming: America lags behind other nations in the number of students majoring in science and engineering at colleges and universities, according to the National Science Foundation.  Additionally, women make up just 9 percent of those receiving engineering degrees – and with your help, we’re changing that statistic.
Zenobia Godschalk is the CEO of ZAG Communications, a technology PR firm working with some of the hottest technology companies in the country. A transplant from Silicon Valley, Zenobia and her team enjoy working as an integrated part of a company’s marketing team to get the story out on today’s mostinnovative, exciting technologies.
Ann Jacobs-Long is a Group Vice President at SunTrust Bank, specializing in PMO leadership, enterprise project management and governance.  A long-time resident of Atlanta, Ann is in her second year as Director of the Girls Get IT Program within the Women In Technology organization.
