Chris Dardaman, CEO of Brightworth, has joined The Emory Center for Alternative Investments Network at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. The Center focuses on providing education, research and analysis for key areas of alternative investments, including private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and real estate.

A multi-state market attractive to insurers selling new, lower-cost comprehensive products is a market-based tool that states can embrace without the heavy hand of federal intervention. In Georgia, Governor Sonny Perdue is showing the way on how to implement such cross-state sales through individual health insurance. States can voluntarily enter into reciprocity agreements with like-minded states.

The Hudgens Center for the Arts is holding a Soupbowl Benefit on Saturday, March 27, from 12:30 to 5:00 p.m., to raise needed funds for the Education Department.

Applications are being accepted until March 26, 2010 for Gwinnett Federal's student scholarships. Nine $2,500 Student Scholarships will be given to honor past and present board members and employees who have served Gwinnett Federal for 20 years or more. Scholarships will be awarded to high school seniors who will be attending college to pursue a degree in education and plan to return to Georgia to teach.

Sen. Curt Thompson (D-Norcross) will hold a Citizen Advisory Forum on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. at Café Maum in Doraville. The topic of this month's meeting will focus on ways for citizens to stay informed with policymaking on the local and national level.

Georgia employers have the chance to be part of a special initiative that helps them reduce operating costs, expand service hours, improve employee work-life balance, and reduce employee commuting costs.  The Clean Air Campaign is making this possible with the launch of the Compressed Work Week Leadership Initiative.

I Tune Into Love is a dance production that looks deeply into the lives of three couples as they portray a roller coaster of emotions within their relationships.

Board members with the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (CID) have increased the CID's funding commitment to the Partnership Gwinnett economic development initiative.