East Lake Foundation
When Nicole Evans Jones became principal at Thomasville Heights Elementary School two years ago, she inherited a crisis. The Atlanta school, at times, has been the worst performing elementary school in all of Georgia – and one of its poorest.
SOURCE: CBS News
Start:ME, a free, intensive 14-week accelerator program for small businesses in underserved metro Atlanta communities, has selected 49 entrepreneurs for the 2018 program.
SOURCE: Atlanta Loop
The East Lake Cup collegiate match play championship helped raise $498,750 for the East Lake Foundation on behalf of Golf Channel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (presenting sponsor) and associate sponsor CSX.
SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
On behalf of Golf Channel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and CSX, the East Lake Cup Collegiate Championship announced a $498,750 donation to the East Lake Foundation on Tuesday.
SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal Constitution
At the season-ending Tour Championship, The First Tee of East Lake learned about sun safety from Mark Rolfing and the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
SOURCE: Golfing World
It started with an email on Nov. 10, 2005, at 10:23 a.m. New Orleans time. The sender was Charlie Yates, then an executive with Zurich Insurance, the title sponsor of the PGA Tour’s event in the Big Easy. He was also the man behind the revitalization of one of the worst neighborhoods in America, the crime-ridden and crumbling East Lake section of Atlanta.
SOURCE: Golf Digest
Buffett, Cousins and Julian Robertson co-founded Purpose Built Communities, an effort to take the East Lake formula and replicate it all over the United States. The three investors gave $25 million over five years to cover the costs of Purpose Built, and they recently renewed their commitment for another five years.
SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Golf Channel talks with Tom Cousins to learn more about the transformation at East Lake, including the success of Drew Charter School’s first-ever graduating class.
SOURCE: Golf Channel
East Lake, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Atlanta has much to show us about how to revitalize an impoverished community without pushing out current residents.
SOURCE: A + Colorado
