Walt Morrissette

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WALT MORRISSETTE serves as Grants/Accounts Payable Accountant and Office Coordinator for The Community Foundation. In this role he is responsible for processing the applications for and mailing almost 5,000 grant checks per year while coordinating relationships with vendors that support the internal operations of The Community Foundation staff and its Community Partnerships. This includes mail and internal customer service to the staff as well as providing grant and operating checking services as the fiscal agent for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s
Atlanta Civic Site.
 
Walt most recently served the community in various roles with Cox Enterprises and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. There he worked with the Home Depot Olympic Brick Program that processed all the orders for the personalized bricks in Centennial Olympic Park. He also covered the Atlanta Braves and Falcons for FindIt 511, high school and community sports and recreation for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and was an online copy editor for Access Atlanta at its inception.
 
Walt previously wrote for the Associated Press in Atlanta, covered the Pentagon and Capitol Hill for Army Times in suburban Washington, high school basketball for The Washington Post and news, sports and entertainment for our troops overseas for the European Stars and Stripes newspaper in Darmstadt, Germany. Career highlights included Princess Diana’s state visit to the Reagan White House, the fall of the Berlin Wall, NFL exhibition games in Berlin, Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, Florida, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Toronto and World Series games in Atlanta.
 
Walt graduated from The University of Alabama and Army ROTC as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army. He served in Germany, Kansas and California before leaving the service at the rank of Captain to begin his journalism career with an internship with the Associated Press in Omaha, Nebraska.
 
Walt’s hobbies are the movies (he was an extra in the film “Broadcast News” with Holly Hunter and William Hurt) Alabama Football, and the Atlanta Braves, Falcons and Hawks. He lives in Snellville with his wife Alyson and son Jordan. His son Marcus is a pre-law junior at Williams College who recently completed an internship in Manhattan with the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office, City of New York.

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