The Art of Participation
Midtown Atlanta is alive with a kinetic mix of business and creativity, inspiring the world’s next great experiences and ideas. This type of vitality comes from collaborative, participatory efforts to make Midtown an even more compelling place to work, live, visit and invest. Explore with us the array of opportunities to impact Midtown’s future.
Events
Events
Participate in Midtown’s exciting parades and festivals as well as Midtown Alliance membership events.
Innovation
Innovation
Take advantage of Atlanta's growing high-tech and creative industries to attract even more entrepreneurs and investment to Midtown Atlanta.
Community Engagement
Community Engagement
Work with us as we continue to enrich the Midtown Atlanta community.
Public Art & Open Space
Public Art & Open Space
Enliven the public realm through activating spaces and sponsoring public art efforts in Midtown.
Sustainability
Sustainability
Green up your Live-Work-Play experience and support the Midtown EcoDistrict, the collective efforts of our community around sustainability.
Transportation
Transportation
Help us reach our goal of ensuring that Midtown is accessible, easy to navigate, safe, and “green” for pedestrians, bikers, transit riders, and motorists alike.
Volunteering in Midtown
Volunteering in Midtown
Be a neighbor, a helping hand, or mentor by getting involved with Midtown’s community organizations, institutions and companies.
Define Your Own Path
Define Your Own Path
Choose how you can best contribute and impact Midtown to make it an even better place to thrive, grow and play.
Define Your Own Path
Cities of Purpose: An Atlanta Dinner Party Experiment
Breaking bread around the dinner table has long been the birthplace of social change. Our goal is to have every resident of Atlanta meaningfully engaged in defining the purpose of Atlanta by 2020. Over the course of spring 2014, in dining rooms, restaurants and public spaces across the city, we will spark and support a grassroots movement to gather around the dinner table and discuss the purpose of our home, our Atlanta.
Forge new relationships, unearth new insight and create new opportunities for genuine engagement as we work together to craft our city on purpose. An Atlanta unequivocally known for its inclusivity, vibrance & hope.
To learn more and sign up, visit Imperative.Atlanta.
Innovation
- Learn more about the Midtown Alliance/Georgia Tech project - Midtown Buzz where residents, developers and organizations are joining together to create mobile apps that enrich the Midtown experience. Contact Laurie Dean Baird for more information Midtown Buzz’s next hackathon and workshop.
- Check out the myriad innovation and entrepreneur events held every week through organizations like Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), the Hypepotamus collaborative workspace and Startup Atlanta.
Community Engagement
- Sign up for our Midtown Monthly newsletter, featuring up-to-date news on the projects and initiatives that impact Midtown.
- Follow us on our social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and our Midtown ATL Flipboard magazine, to see all the latest news and happenings in Midtown.
- Support the programs and initiatives that make Midtown your location of choice by becoming a member of Midtown Alliance. For more information, visit our website.
Public Art & Open Space
- Explore Midtown’s public art offerings including the newly installed Rockspinner at 10th and Peachtree. To learn how your organization can add public art to your property, contact Midtown Alliance’s Ginny Kennedy.
- Activate your greenspace with games and activities, free WiFi, landscaping, tables and chairs, classes, artwork and interactive experiences and more! For ideas visit Midtown ATL’s Flipboard magazine and for more information and how-tos, contact Midtown Alliance today.
- Wouldn’t you like to spend an afternoon in the shade reading a good book? Join the “Take a book and return a book” movement by sponsoring a Little Free Library in Midtown.
- Interested in how to bring life to underutilized urban spaces like storefronts for specific short-term, rent-free art installations and creative enterprise opportunities? Submit your proposals today.
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Sustainability
- Check out the sustainability resources Midtown Alliance has to offer individuals, businesses and restaurants to learn how you can green up every day.
- Apply to be an EcoDistrict Luminary, a Midtown Alliance program highlighting the businesses, buildings, and organizations that are setting the pace for sustainability in Midtown
- Beautify your streetscape and adopt one of the district’s 100’s of tree-wells.
- Join 26 other Midtown building owners and managers and participate in the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge and commit to reduce energy and water usage by 20% by 2020.
- Use the Energy Star Portfolio Manager, an online tool, to measure and track energy and water consumption as well as greenhouse gases for one building or a whole portfolio of buildings
- Become an EcoDistrict Ambassador and help us spread the word about the Midtown EcoDistrict and the Luminaries program.
Transportation
- Join 1000’s of Midtown commuters already using commute alternatives like rapid transit, biking, ridesharing and teleworking.
- Develop a commute options plan for your company with Midtown Transportation. Contact our team for more information.
- Participate in Midtown Transportation events like “Bike to Work Day” and “Midtown Walk There Challenge.” Contact Midtown Transportation to learn how.
- Explore innovative transportation incentives for your employees, customers and residents. For more information, contact Midtown Transportation’s Shelby Buso.
- Already a biker or walker? Share your passion for a car-lite lifestyle in Midtown, and be featured in our “Walkable Midtown” series.
- Become a Transportation Platinum Partner by promoting alternative commute options to your employees and tenants. For more info about the Platinum Partner program, visit Georgia Commute Options.
Volunteering in Midtown
- Lend a hand to local non-for-profit organizations, like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, Boys and Girls Club of America and Midtown Assistance Center.
- Volunteer at events like the Midtown Tour of Homes, Atlanta Streets Alive, and more with Midtown Neighbors’ Association to support their community building efforts. Email to learn how you can help.
- Discover how your business can participate in work-study opportunities for incoming Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School students.
- Join or volunteer for arts and culture organizations like the Woodruff Arts Center, The Fox Theatre, MODA, Center for Puppetry Arts and the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.
- Explore 100’s of local volunteer opportunities through Hands On Atlanta.
Events
- Midtown Alliance hosts a variety of meetings each year and is always looking for new locations and event ideas. Like to learn more? Contact Membership Director Laura Moody for information.
- Support Atlanta’s only open-streets event, Atlanta Streets Alive. Attend, sponsor or organize your own activities and get ready to ramble down a Peachtree Street without any cars!
- In the last 6 months, Midtown has welcomed two new family friendly parades to the district – The Annual Children’s Christmas Parade and the upcoming Atlanta St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
- Tell the community about YOUR events by adding them to the Midtown ATL events calendar.