Mickey Goodman

Atlanta, Marietta

Memoirist, ghost writer, content provider, journalist. 700 national and regional pubs. Pres ASJA SE. Blogger at http://t.co/1ND04ECFlR; http://t.co/hzKGBDSS4n

Articles

FILLING A GAP - Simply Buckhead

6 days ago | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

Providing moms with basic needs. As a new mom and social worker, Jamie Lackey was acutely aware of the lack of essential baby items and period products for her Atlanta clients and the drought of public assistance to provide them. “Mothers were having to wash and re-use disposable diapers or even use plastic grocery bags. One in four women and girls frequently lost a week of work or school because they lacked period products,” she says.
RALLY ROUND FOR CANCER RESEARCH – Simply Buckhead

6 days ago | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

It takes a village. In 2005 when Dean Crowe learned that Lee and Nancy Olson’s 17-year old son William’s brain cancer had returned, she asked what she could do to help. The answer surprised her. “I want you to raise money for childhood cancer research and find the best research, wherever that might be,” Nancy Olson said. Crowe lost no time and named it the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research.
TEEN SISTERS PAY IT FORWARD – Simply Buckhead

6 days ago | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

Walk supports rehab center!After radiation, chemo and multiple surgeries, there are many months of pain and hard work before women fully recover from breast cancer. For Buckhead resident Stephanie Scalise who was diagnosed in 2015, TurningPoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation in Sandy Springs supported her post-surgery journey physically, mentally and even financially.
A STYLING EVENT - Simply Buckhead

1 month ago | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

Fashion show celebrates people touched by cancer. In 2013, members of Friends of Winship were looking for positive, uplifting ways to raise funds for research on cancers that affect women when they hit upon the idea of a fashion show and luncheon at the Piedmont Driving Club. They named it Fashion a Cure and since then the annual gathering has raised $2 million. Chairs Lynne Rankin, Jennifer Raulet and Ashley Whitehurst hosted this year’s event on April 29.
PLAY BALL - Simply Buckhead

1 month ago | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

Hitting home runs year after year!Soon after Buckhead resident Amy Douglass’s 10-year old daughter, Ella Perry, was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, she met friends for lunch at The Betty in Buckhead. “We were talking about our kids’ sports teams and decided it would be fun to get off the bleachers and form a softball team to raise money for charity,” Douglass says.
EMPOWERING WOMEN AND GIRLS – Simply Buckhead

1 month ago | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

Addressing barriers to success!In 1986, 10 women donated $10,000 each and founded the Atlanta Women’s Fund under the auspices of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. Their vision was to create new pathways for women and girls living in poverty with a focus on education, housing, mental and physical health services, workforce readiness training and more.
MORE THAN AN AREA CODE – Simply Buckhead

Mar 6, 2025 | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

404 Fund supports Atlanta’s nonprofits. Brandon Butler of online culture hub Butter.ATL, and Peter Kiley, brewmaster at Monday Night Brewing, may seem like unlikely partners, but they have a similar mindset when it comes to giving back to the community. They created the 404 Fund in partnership with the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta that supports the city through scholarships, grants, youth education, employment initiatives, housing and food insecurity initiatives year round.
CREATING A SPACE – Simply Buckhead

Mar 6, 2025 | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

In-house bakery supports nonprofit. “At age 22, adults with intellectual disabilities age out of K-12 school and government programs and ‘graduate to the couch’ because they no longer have access to a structured day and their peer group,” says Buckhead resident Kelly Kannwischer. Kitty Correll understands the problem all too well. Her nephew with Down Syndrome suffered from loneliness and depression because of the lack of resources.
HONORING MOTHERS – Simply Buckhead

Mar 6, 2025 | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

CURE Childhood Cancer marks Quiet Heroes anniversary. CURE Childhood Cancer is set to celebrate the 20th anniversary of A Tribute to Quiet Heroes on March 29 at Flourish. This organization that honors the mothers of children battling cancer was born at Chris Glavine’s kitchen table. She and CURE Executive Director Kristin Connor brainstormed ways to support Glavine’s friend, Jane Hennessy, whose 5-year-old son, Will, had been diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma.
GIVIN’ BACK - Simply Buckhead

Mar 6, 2025 | simplybuckhead.com | Mickey Goodman

Monthly brunches highlight charities!When DeMarco McMillan became the director of sales and marketing at Thompson Atlanta in Buckhead, he wanted to involve the new hotel in the nonprofit community by replicating a concept he initiated in Washington, D.C. “I couldn’t think of a better way to bring people together than to stage charitable brunches and involve my friend of 20 years, Marian Goldberg, who is enmeshed in multiple philanthropic organizations and loves to give back,” he says.