East Lake Foundation
Atlanta Public Schools’ four-year graduation rate reached 83.1% for the class of 2021. That’s an increase from the year before, when it was 80.3%. Drew Charter School had the second highest graduation rate in Atlanta Public Schools (99%), close behind Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
The Start:ME business accelerator program is currently recruiting promising microentrepreneurs in and around Clarkston, East Lake, and Southside Atlanta for its 2022 programs. Fifteen to eighteen entrepreneurs from each community … Continue Reading →
Support our East Lake COVID-19 Relief Fund Support the Drew Charter School Opportunity Fund State of Georgia Department of Public Health COVID-19 Resources Find the nearest COVID-19 Testing Site Find … Continue Reading →
The PGA Tour Championship was an amazing experience. The top thirty golfers from around the world all gathered in one place to see who will take home the FedEx Cup … Continue Reading →
It was a beautiful day out at the East Lake Golf Course. The weather was perfect, and we got a chance to enjoy a nice breeze. It was such an honor to walk the nine holes alongside Mariah Stackhouse, Warrick Dawn, Justin Rose, and Andruw Jones.
TOUR Championship officials today announced the TOUR Championship Charity Challenge, a televised nine-hole exhibition on Wednesday, Sept. 1, from 3-5 p.m. to benefit the East Lake Foundation and the TOUR Championship’s other charitable beneficiaries.
Despite challenges stemming from the coronavirus pandemic including an absence of paying spectators, last year’s PGA TOUR Championship event at East Lake Golf Club raised a record-breaking $3.56 million for four local nonprofit organizations: East Lake Foundation; Grove Park Foundation; Purpose Built Schools Atlanta; and First Tee Metro Atlanta. Prospects are good for another record-breaking outcome for the same quartet of local beneficiaries when The TOUR Championship returns to East Lake Golf Cub Sept. 2-5.
SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Marcus Leonard and Tatum Thompson thought they had been invited to the Tour Championship’s media day to participate in a putting contest with eight-time PGA Tour winner and East Lake member Stewart Cink.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
Paid Summer Internships Connect Atlanta Youth to Career Building Opportunities with East Lake Foundation and Grove Park Foundation Atlanta – Bank of America recently selected five Atlanta high school juniors … Continue Reading →
When Julia Watkins asked kids where their food came from, she often heard the same response: “From the grocery store.” Hearing that answer and having worked at a farmers market … Continue Reading →
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
Please support the East Lake COVID-19 Relief Fund to provide critical and targeted support to East Lake families and partners to meet short- and long-term needs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.