48in48 Atlanta 2016 in photos

WOW. Just, wow. We did it again! We built 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours! And dozens of logos, tons of social content, 48 email templates, SEO services, and much more, all in the span of 48 hours at General Assembly’s office in Ponce City Market. Over 200 volunteers came and donated their time to make this happen, and when we ran the numbers, we provided over $1.5 million in services for Atlanta’s nonprofits!!!

Here is snapshot of the event in photos (and one video):

Ponce City Market, not sure there is a better place in Atlanta to host an event like this…

We had pins for all of the volunteers, both for this year and a 2015 one if they helped last year. It was fun seeing all the returning volunteers!

48in48’s fearless leader, Carole Williams, made sure our sponsors got a ton of recognition.

The signage this year was light years better than last year. A sure sign (#pun-intended) that we are getting our act together.

Crooked Wits played for the opening session, and they were AMAZING! Please book them for events, they’re incredible.

Atlanta Hawks small forward Kent Bazemore came and gave an inspirational talk to the 200+ volunteers. Afterwards Adam, Carole, and I did a #bazegaze with him. AND he capture this, what I think has to be the world-record for highest number of BazeGazers ever!

Thanks to Refuge for their coffee and espressos all weekend, to Coca-Cola for drinks throughout, and to all of our meal sponsors, including Arby’s and Chick-fil-A, for helping us keep the volunteers caffeinated, hydrated, fed, and…caffeinated again :)

Sometimes we got goofy. This is Adam starting to lose his mind…

And oh yeah, the work! While most of these photos are the “fun” of the event, the amount of time our volunteers spent working was insane. Walking around the space at 2am and seeing so many people still cranking away was one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever seen.

When they did take a rest, we had this rest area set up for them with Delta comfort bags (bottom right of the photo.) This is where I “slept” both nights. And thanks to Dagger, we had a few Yogabeds!

Our incredible judges, Tad Hutcheson (our Delta sponsor), Ann Cramer, and Ken Bernhardt, worked hard to pick out the winning websites.

After the award ceremony, the judges were presented with 48in48 t-shirts with the signatures of the participating nonprofits.

And yes, we were exhausted after the event. And in two weeks, we’ll do it all again in New York!!!