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Georgia Power Foundation donates $25,000 to help Alliance Theatre produce 1,500 masks for medical personnel

April 16, 2020

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020 – This week, the Georgia Power Foundation presented a $25,000 donation to the Woodruff Arts Center in support of the Alliance Theatre’s COVID-19 response efforts. While the Alliance Theatre has closed its doors during the pandemic, their costume shop, props and production staff are putting their unique skills to work and creating fabric masks for medical personnel at Emory Healthcare’s five metro Atlanta facilities.

Currently, 19 Alliance Theatre artists are sewing on average 300 masks daily. With the donation from the Georgia Power Foundation, the artists can make 1,500 masks a week to support front line workers and Atlanta’s medical workers during COVID-19. The fabric masks sewn by the Alliance artists are designed to fit over and dramatically improve the lifespan of the medically-approved N95 respiratory masks.

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The Georgia Record was relaunched in June of 2021 and has been extremely successful fighting corruption in the state named after King George of England. The original paper was started in 1899 and published into the early 20th century. In 2020, CDM (Creative Destruction Media) acquired Johns Creek Post and brought back The Georgia Record to better represent the state rather than just Johns Creek News.