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Chuck Leavell Honored at Captain Planet Event Featuring Julian Lennon and Collective Soul
The Captain Planet Foundation held its annual Benefit Gala Nov. 16 in Atlanta. The charitable evening recognizes environmental activists...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 11, 2019
Sustenance Group's Kristi York Wooten hosts "Conversations at the Carter Center" event
Kristi York Wooten hosted the event "Standing Strong Against Attacks on Human Rights" on October 16, 2019, at the Carter Center in...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 11, 2019
Elton John’s lasting impact on Atlanta: turning the public’s fear of AIDS into action
Many Atlantans are familiar with Sir Elton John’s local ties: his world-famous art collection that helped spark Atlanta’s obsession with...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 30, 2018
Why Oprah’s appearances with Stacey Abrams resonated so loudly—especially with Georgia women
Oprah Winfrey is no stranger to Atlanta. Recent visits have involved her role in Greenleaf (the Georgia-filmed OWN network mega-church...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 3, 2018
Jimmy Carter’s human rights message resonates in Atlanta and globally
On July 24, inside the Carter Center’s Cecil B. Day chapel overlooking Freedom Parkway and the downtown skyline, Jimmy Carter’s earnest...
Kristi Wooten
Jul 28, 2018
Searching for Dr. King in a War of Words
In the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr. used words to reclaim the power of love; in 2018, we use grace to reclaim the power of words....
Kristi Wooten
Jan 15, 2018
Jane Fonda and Ted Turner Keep Rocking the Green Carpet Together
Ted and Jane are together again! This time the two walked the “green” carpet as friends while supporting Turner’s Captain Planet...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 9, 2017
Mark Ruffalo honors Atlanta environmental activists as superheroes
Mark Ruffalo is making the most out of his time in metro Atlanta, both on and off movie sets. While filming his roles as Bruce Banner and...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 20, 2017
In Manchester, Ariana Grande Discovers The Generation Of Love
Sunday night, Ariana Grande returned to the stage for the first time since a suicide bomber murdered 22 people outside her Manchester...
Kristi Wooten
Jun 5, 2017
Watching Jimmy Carter And Bernie Sanders Together Will Make Your Day
“When Jimmy Met Bernie” sounds like it could be the title of a buddy comedy in which two men experience hilarious pitfalls as they set...
Kristi Wooten
May 8, 2017
John Lewis To Atlanta: We Cannot Afford To Be Silent
An estimated 60,000 people gathered in Atlanta today to participate in the Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women. Part of an...
Kristi Wooten
Jan 21, 2017
A Campaign to End AIDS With Vodka Bottles, Chicken Feathers, and Modern Art
Corporate philanthropy in America surged in the past decade and rose to $18.46 billion for 2015. While individual donors, private funds...
Kristi Wooten
Oct 7, 2016
Marian Wright Edelman Exclusive: Children Need Advocates – in Georgia and Across America
Children's Defense Fund president Marian Wright Edelman spoke exclusively with Sustenance Group after her roundtable discussion about...
Kristi Wooten
Aug 30, 2016
Jimmy Carter and Bono Honored for Humanitarian Work
Jimmy Carter, Bono and Nile Rodgers made for a surprising trio of revelers at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom last Friday night. On the...
Kristi Wooten
May 1, 2016
International Women's Day Signers (and Singers) Believe 'Poverty is Sexist'
In 2015, the ONE Campaign launched its Poverty is Sexist campaign, asking women and men around the world to take "strengthies" (strong...
Kristi Wooten
Mar 8, 2016
New Film 'Imba Means Sing' Celebrates Children's Triumph Over Poverty
In the new documentary film, Imba Means Sing, viewers go behind the scenes with the African Children’s Choir as it embarks on a tour of...
Kristi Wooten
Feb 7, 2016
Can Miley Cyrus Educate Millennials About AIDS?
At Carnegie Hall this past Tuesday night, Miley Cyrus joined U2’s Bono and The Edge, Hozier and Jessie J for a World AIDS Day event...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 3, 2015
Kristi Wooten
Nov 18, 2015
At Clinton Global Initiative, Michael Gerson and Bill Gates Talk Vaccines, Disease Prevention, Nutri
At the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York last week, former George W. Bush staffer Michael Gerson interviewed Bill...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 29, 2015
U2 Continues to Bring Awareness to Poverty and AIDS with 'Innocence + Experience Tour'
On stage at Madison Square Garden in July, U2 wore its heart on its sleeve by promoting the causes that are most dear to the band,...
Kristi Wooten
Aug 27, 2015
Live Aid's Legacy: 30 Years Later
The all-star benefit concert gave rise to the trend of high-profile, celebrity-endorsed charitable efforts, and changed the nature of...
Kristi Wooten
Jul 15, 2015
Kerry Washington, Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton visit the Center for Civil and Human Rights
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Kristi Wooten
Jul 15, 2015
What if Your Dad Had Married at Age 7?
It's Father's Day, a day which should be filled with summertime family fun - not stories about child marriage. In the United States, it's...
Kristi Wooten
Jun 21, 2015
What Eva Longoria Learned in the Barrios of Cartagena
Eva Longoria says some of her earliest childhood memories are of accompanying her family to volunteer at the Special Olympics in her...
Kristi Wooten
Feb 2, 2015
10 Inspiring New Year's Resolutions From My Conversations With Jane Goodall
By Kristi York Wooten The Huffington Post One doesn't need an encyclopedic knowledge of science to hang with Jane Goodall; instead, a...
Kristi Wooten
Jan 1, 2015
Honoring Malala and Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King on Human Rights Day
While Malala accepted her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, Atlanta celebrated its two past Nobel prize winners, Jimmy Carter and Martin...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 10, 2014
CARE Brings Atlanta to the World
CARE held its board meeting in Atlanta on December 9, and celebrated with an evening event at the Center for Civil and Human Rights. CEO...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 10, 2014
AYA Summit Report: The Real Warrior Among The Walking Dead
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE DAILY BEAST Actress, activist and African American: Danai Gurira believes in the power of using her voice...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 10, 2014
Global Citizen and EKOCYCLE Toast Atlanta
Justine Lucas, U.S. Country Director of Global Citizen, visited Atlanta for a tour of the new Center for Civil and Human Rights and to...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 8, 2014
World AIDS Day 2014: The Tipping Point
ONE released its annual report on the progess in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and most of the news is good. The reduction in the rate of...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 1, 2014
Midge Ure and "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST THREE decades before One Direction, Ellie Goulding and others added their voices and carefully...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 25, 2014
The Elders Meet to Discuss Women in Peacebuilding Roles
By Kristi York Wooten Sustenance Group partcipated in the Women and Peacebuilding event at The Carter Center on November 5, 2014, which...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 6, 2014
Elizabeth Bintliff: An Impossible Life Made Possible
Elizabeth Bintliff (right) and her friend Rashid in Sierra Leone. Photo courtesy of Heifer. Heifer International's Vice President of...
Kristi Wooten
Oct 29, 2014
South Sudan: Good Lie Star Finds Key to Hope
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Emmanuel Jal's story is an inspiring personal journey of survival: During the second...
Kristi Wooten
Oct 17, 2014
Naomi Tutu Talks Faith and Activism
The Rev. Naomi Tutu visited Kennesaw State University yesterday to share her story with students and faculty as part of a lecture series...
Kristi Wooten
Oct 16, 2014
International Day of the Girl: Fight for Education
On October 11, 2014, the Center for Civil and Human Rights and CARE celebrated the International Day of the Girl in Atlanta. Below is an...
Kristi Wooten
Oct 12, 2014
Heifer International Celebrates 70th Anniversary
Heifer International celebrated 70 years of family farming at the Beyond Hunger event at the Carter Center in Atlanta on October 4....
Kristi Wooten
Oct 5, 2014
No Doubt Rocks the Global Citizen Festival
The Global Poverty Project's third annual Global Citizen Festival filled NYC's Central Park with activists, world leaders and music fans...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 29, 2014
Melinda Gates is the Star of UN Week
Melinda Gates spent much of UN Week in an SUV crisscrossing Manhattan to appear at events such as the Social Good Summit (SGS), the...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 25, 2014
CNN's Erin Burnett Hosts Best Panel at CGI Annual Meeting
CNN's Erin Burnett recorded an episode of her television show, Erin Burnett Out Front, during the Clinton Global Initiative Annual...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 24, 2014
Matt Damon Talks Toilets at Clinton Global Initiative
Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White joined a panel discussion at CGI to discuss the impact of water and sanitation on health,...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 24, 2014
Ebola Crisis: Idris Elba Goes Viral to Fight the Virus
Sustenance Group attended an intimate briefing by ONE, where Save the Children CEO Carolyn Miles and Gates Foundation President of Global...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 23, 2014
Alicia Keys Launches the We Are Here Movement at Mashable's Social Good Summit
Alicia Keys partnered with a dozen international charities and NGOs – including CARE, Oxfam, her own Keep A Child Alive and others – to...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 21, 2014
The Center for Civil and Human Rights Opens in Atlanta
Sustenance Group is proud to partner with the Center for Civil and Human Rights to promote its opening and inaugural year. SG is working...
Kristi Wooten
Jun 24, 2014
Martha and Rufus Wainwright Sing for Maternal Health
Sustenance Group partnered with Life On Mars Gallery and Every Mother Counts for an evening of art and music in honor of Mother's Day....
Kristi Wooten
May 30, 2014
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power
Kristi York Wooten interviewed Jimmy Carter for The Economist about his excellent new book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence...
Kristi Wooten
Apr 29, 2014
Sustenance Group Loves International Women's Day
Since 2007, Sustenance Group has worked with CARE, Every Mother Counts, Half the Sky, Dining for Women, Women for Women and other...
Kristi Wooten
Mar 8, 2014
How It Feels When Bono Shows Up
Sustenance Group participated in ONE's annual Power Summit in Washington, D.C. Featured guests at this year's summit included (RED) CEO...
Kristi Wooten
Feb 23, 2014
Eve Ensler Talks About the Power of One Billion Rising for Justice
Kristi York Wooten spoke with Eve Ensler about the origin and success of her global movement to protect and empower women. Click HERE to...
Kristi Wooten
Feb 13, 2014
Exclusive Interview: Angelique Kidjo Celebrates Women and Human Rights With "Eve" - and a New Memoir
Kristi York Wooten interviewed Angelique Kidjo about her new autobiography (Spirit Rising) and her new record, Eve, which was recorded in...
Kristi Wooten
Feb 3, 2014
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