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• Mauldin & Jenkins Names Rob Douglas Albany Market Leader

  November 12, 2026

  Mauldin & Jenkins, a leading provider of assurance, tax and advisory services, is pleased to announce that Rob Douglas, CPA, has been named Albany Market Leader, effective October 1st.

• Georgia Chamber Convenes Business and Community Leaders at 2026 Economic Inclusion Summit

  November 12, 2026

  The Georgia Chamber of Commerce convened business executives, workforce development professionals, healthcare leaders, and community partners at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park for its 2026 Economic Inclusion Summit. The event focused on strengthening Georgia's workforce, expanding economic opportunity, and fostering a more competitive business environment across the state.

• Georgia Center for Nonprofits CEO Karen Beavor: Where Georgians Turn Caring into Connection

  November 11, 2026

  Every community has its gathering places: the park, the community center, the theater, the ball field, the museum, the senior center, the house of worship. These are the places where we truly *see* one another.

• Former State Senator Freddie Powell Sims & Community Leader Ken Bevel Receive Lem Griffin Community Service Award

  November 10, 2026

  Phoebe recently honored retiring State Senator Freddie Powell Sims as the 2025 winner of the Lemuel Griffin Community Service Award and Ken Bevel as the recipient of the 2026 award. Each award comes with a $10,000 donation given to a deserving organization of the honoree’s choice.

• Georgia Council for the Arts Awards Grant Funding to 80 Organizations

  November 10, 2026

  The Georgia Department of Economic Development division specialized in fostering the arts and culture, Georgia Council for the Arts, today announced the recipients of fiscal year 2027 Vibrant Communities and Cultural Facilities competitive grant awards to support organizations across the state

• Sweet Sixteen: Delta Named No. 1 for Business Travelers for 16th Consecutive Year

  November 10, 2026

  Business Travel News, the leading global source of business travel information and intelligence, has named Delta Air Lines the top carrier for business travelers for the 16th consecutive year, an unprecedented run as the airline embarks on its next century of flight.

• Georgia’s State Workforce Board Approves High Demand Career List to Align Workforce, Education, & Employer Needs

  November 09, 2026

  For the third consecutive year, Georgia has produced its unified occupation priority list, with the State Workforce Development Board approving the 2027 High Demand Career List.

• Report: Fewer Fresh Faces are Entering Corporate Boardrooms

  November 09, 2026

  Corporate boards are bringing in a shrinking share of first-time directors, as companies increasingly turn to seasoned executives with prior board experience, according to a new report by The Conference Board.

• Threadcraft Engineering Expands Capabilities with Purchase of M-Square Associates

  November 06, 2026

  Threadcraft Engineering has completed the purchase of the assets of M-Square Associates, P.C., a structural engineering firm based in Albany, expanding its capabilities and strengthening its position as a multidisciplinary engineering provider.

• 64% of Georgia Executives Are Investing More in Generosity. Here’s How to Help Employees See It.

  November 06, 2026

  Executives are investing in generosity at near-record rates — 99% are increasing or maintaining their commitment, but recent data shows that most employees haven’t noticed. This week, we dig into how executives and employees define generosity, and the difference may be costing companies the returns generosity is supposed to deliver.

• GaDOE, GaPSC Partner to Revamp Statewide Educator Job Board

  November 06, 2026

  The Georgia Department of Education and the Georgia Professional Standards Commission announced a partnership to launch an enhanced statewide educator job board, bringing together GaPSC's TeachGeorgia and GaDOE's Teach in the Peach initiatives to strengthen teacher recruitment and reduce educator vacancies across the state.

• TCSG Foundation Donates $1.24 Million to Georgia’s 22 Technical College Foundations

  November 05, 2026

  The Technical College System of Georgia Foundation has donated a total of $1.24 million to the foundations supporting all 22 of Georgia’s technical colleges. The check presentation took place during the 2026 TCSG Leadership Conference in Savannah, bringing together college leaders, trustees, and foundation representatives from across the state.

• U.S. Department of Commerce to Invest $7.4M to Support Georgia Timber Manufacturing Industry

  November 05, 2026

  Initiated and overseen by Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI²), ReGEN Ag is a collaboration of Tech’s Renewable Bioproducts Institute and Supply Chain and Logistics Institute. Together, the groups will help South Georgia's timber and agriculture producers recover from 2024’s Hurricane Helene and strengthen the region’s resilience to future disasters.

• Survey: Manufacturers Eye 2027 Growth as Profit Pressures Persist

  November 05, 2026

  Manufacturers are heading into 2027 with their strongest optimism in years, but confidence in turning stronger demand into profitable growth remains measured, according to Wipfli's latest Manufacturing Pulse Survey.

• Keisha Bottoms Claims Place in History as First Black Woman Elected Governor

  November 04, 2026

  Georgia voters made history Tuesday, electing for the first time in 238 years of statehood a woman — and a Black person — as governor.

• Jon Ossoff Claims Victory in U.S. Senate Race

  November 04, 2026

  Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff powered to a second term Tuesday night, defending his seat against Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins.

• Race for Georgia Governor Draws More Than $150M in Final Three Months

  November 03, 2026

  The price of everything has been rising, including the cost of becoming governor in Georgia. Since Aug. 1, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and businessman Rick Jackson raised more than $150 million in their quests to lead the state.

• Southern Company Aligns Leadership, Operations to Serve Growth, Develop Talent & Prepare for the Future

  November 02, 2026

  Southern Company Chairman, President and CEO Chris Womack, announced several executive leadership changes designed to position the company to continue serving growing energy needs, execute significant infrastructure investments and respond to rapidly evolving technologies and customer needs.

• Czech Business Incubator Atlanta & Locate South Georgia Formalize International Business Partnership

  October 30, 2026

  Locate South Georgia Board Chair Jana Dyke and The Czech Business Incubator Atlanta formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding on October 9th, establishing a strategic partnership to support Czech and Czech-related companies seeking to enter the U.S. market through South Georgia while creating new opportunities for South Georgia businesses to expand into the Czech Republic and Central Europe.

• Georgia-Based Chicken Salad Chick Surpasses 350 Restaurants as Record Growth Pace Continues to Fuel National Expansion

  October 30, 2026

  Chicken Salad Chick is continuing its impressive pace of growth, surpassing 350 restaurants across 27 states. Building on a record-breaking 2025, Chicken Salad Chick is still trending for record growth in 2026.

• Georgia Chamber CEO Chris Clark: Being No. 1 Is Not Enough

  October 29, 2026

  For thirteen years straight, Area Development has ranked Georgia the nation's No. 1 state for business, a run no other state has matched. That did not happen by accident. It happened because governors and legislators made decisions over decades to keep Georgia competitive, because communities invested in infrastructure and economic developers built relationships around the world, because our universities and technical colleges turned out talent, and because the ports, the airport, the highways, and the rail network connected what Georgians make to customers who wanted it.

• 2026 Healthy Georgia: Our State of Public Health Released

  October 27, 2026

  The Institute of Public and Preventive Health in Augusta University’s School of Public Health has published the fifth edition of “Healthy Georgia: Our State of Public Health,” providing an up-to-date glance at how the Peach State is faring on 31 different health topics.

• Work Begins on New Downtown Home for the Albany Museum of Art

  October 26, 2026

  Construction has begun on the Albany Museum of Art’s new downtown home at the former Belk Department Store on West Broad Avenue.

• Audi AG Selects Georgia to Invest $4 Billion in First US Manufacturing Facility, Create 4,500 Jobs

  October 26, 2026

  Governor Brian Kemp and Gernot Döllner, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG, announced that Audi will open its first U.S. manufacturing facility in the State of Georgia. Headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany, Audi plans to invest approximately $4 billion in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at the Middle Georgia Megasite, delivering approximately 4,500 new jobs to middle Georgia.

• Generosity's Importance to Georgia Employees Hits an All-Time High

  October 23, 2026

  The case for business generosity has never been stronger — and for the first time, the 2026 Business Generosity Report captures specific employee performance impacts many executives have been seeing for years.

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