The South Fulton Institute

The South Fulton Institute is a regional catalyst for the advancement of the arts, culture, and environment that enriches lives and communities. We envision a collective of sustainable, abundant South Fulton County communities that are artistically vibrant and culturally engaged.

Our concentrated impact model focuses on the 8 cities that make up the lower slice of Fulton County, and we want to support the communities within those cities in their efforts to make arts and culture centerpieces of the region’s transformation. Arts and culture can be accelerants of vibrancy and growth, packing in social offerings and professional opportunities to an area historically excluded from resources.

The deep local impact of supporting such activities could have a dramatic effect–both within the already-burgeoning municipal infrastructures and on the future ambitions of the cities’ leadership.

Arts and culture initiatives also help prevent the exodus of creative talent that invariably happens because of a lack of opportunity. There’s a tail to such programs, too, as the work also offers community members and organizations a larger capacity to improve quality of life through other means, such as civic engagement, education, the building of local relationships, and economic activity that is woven into the emotional fabric of residents’ lives.

For the first time ever, anyone can apply to become a SFI partner as long as they are an artist, cultural leader, or environmentalist working in or on behalf of South Fulton County. A partnership with SFI gives individuals and organizations an opportunity to not only focus on art, culture, and environmental projects and initiatives, but also to develop resources in other functional areas to create a sustainable and stable future.

Socially connected communities with free, high-quality arts and culture programming: this is what we at SFI are thinking about as we collect applications for our partnership program and continue extending our mission into South Fulton County schools, libraries, hospitals, juvenile courts, senior and community centers, and other arts and culture nonprofits. d environment that enriches lives and communities. We envision a collective of sustainable, abundant South Fulton County communities that are artistically vibrant and culturally engaged.