East Lake Foundation - Community Redevelopment

Atlanta, Georgia Community Redevelopment - A National Model for Community Redevelopment - East Lake has been recognized by the Urban Land Institute as a national model for community redevelopment. The new East Lake includes: The Villages of East Lake, a mixed-income apartment community with half market-rate and half government-subsidized apartment homes and on-site resident programs managed by Mercy Housing; Charles R. Drew Charter School, the city of Atlanta’s first public charter school, which is managed by Edison Schools, Inc., now serving grades K-8 and offering a comprehensive curriculum and before and after school programs emphasizing high achievement and character development; the East Lake Family YMCA located adjacent to the school; the Sheltering Arms Early Education and Family Center for children from birth to kindergarten; and the Charlie Yates Golf Course, a public, mid-length, 18-hole golf course, that is the home of The First Tee?of East Lake, a year-round golf and mentoring program for area youth. Net proceeds from the Charlie Yates Golf Course, the East Lake Golf Club and the PGA Tour’s season-ending TOUR Championship held at East Lake Golf Club every year benefit East Lake community programs. TOUR Championship tickets are available online. As beautiful as the buildings are, it’s what happening inside them that is making all the difference. With adult residents taking advantage of career development, job and life skills training and financial literacy classes and East Lake youth being offered strong educational support from pre-school to high school, the East Lake community is thriving.

East Lake Foundation Board of Directors

Dr. Lawrence M. Schall, Chair

President, Oglethorpe University

Lillian Cousins Giornelli, Vice Chair
Executive Director, CF Foundation

Richard W. Courts IV
Principal, Atlantic Realty Company

Thomas G. Cousins
Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Cousins Properties, Inc.

J. Alexander M. Douglas, Jr.
Global Chief Customer Officer, The Coca-Cola Company

Dr. James Don Edwards
Retired J.M. Tull Professor of Accounting, Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia

John R. Frazer
Executive Vice President, Private Wealth Management, SunTrust Bank

Doug Hertz
President and CEO, United Distributors, Inc.

Robert L. Johnston
President and Founder, First Communities

Mark Lazarus
Chairman, NBC Sports Cable Group, NBC Universal

William Pate
President and Chief Executive Officer, Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau

Alex Robertson
Managing Partner, Tiger Management LLC

Ray M. Robinson
President Emeritus, East Lake Golf Club; Citizens Trust Bank

Chris Womack
Executive Vice President and President, External Affairs, Southern Company