East Lake Foundation
We are always looking to expand the community outreach and impact of the tournament into the Greater Atlanta area. This is evidenced by the fact that the TOUR Championship expanded that focus in 2018 and added the Grove Park Foundation and Purpose Built Schools Atlanta as local organizations, in addition to the East Lake Foundation, that benefit from the tournament.
SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
As a member at East Lake Golf Club, Cink is one of the leaders in the community when it comes to supporting the East Lake Foundation. The foundation provides resources for families of The Villages of East Lake and students of Drew Charter School to build a better life through college education, mixed-income housing, and community wellness.
SOURCE: Georgia Tech Ramblin Wreck News
Featured on The Villages of East Lake (Page 28): The Villages of East Lake is a project that redeveloped the former East Lake Meadows public housing complex and addressed decades of disinvestment and depopulation in Atlanta’s East Lake community.
SOURCE: Urban Land Institute
The Georgia Department of Community Affairs has awarded the Grove Park Foundation and its partner, Columbia Residential, 9 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits to build a new 110-unit, mixed-income, multi-family housing development. The residential development is part of a larger neighborhood revitalization strategy for Grove Park, which also includes initiatives in education, community wellness and financial empowerment in partnership with Grove Park residents. Grove Park is part of the Purpose Built Communities network.
SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
A day before their much-anticipated winter concert, one of two performances held each year, a dozen or so of the more than 60 members of the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble gather for rehearsal at Drew Charter School.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
The plans are part of Riverside’s selection as a “Purpose Built Community,” one of 19 in the country where a nonprofit provides free consulting on alleviating concentrated poverty through improvements to housing, early childhood-through-high school education and health.
SOURCE: Delaware Online
The PGA Tour Championship donated a tournament record of “just over $3 million” to local nonprofits, according to an announcement this week. Proceeds from the tournament primarily benefit the East Lake Foundation and other local nonprofits, such as the Grove Park Foundation, Purpose Built Schools Atlanta and The First Tee of Atlanta, an international youth golf development organization.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
he city of Atlanta has renamed East Lake Boulevard Southeast to Eva Davis Way, all to honor one of the first people to call East Lake Meadows home.
SOURCE: Fox 5 News
Last week, the Atlanta City Council voted to approve the renaming of East Lake Boulevard SE to Eva Davis Way. The name will be familiar to many in what’s now known as the Villages of East Lake neighborhood, as Davis was instrumental in its creation. But for others, here’s a brief history about the late community leader.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
The impact of the TOUR Championship will leave behind a legacy not just in East Lake but in other neighborhoods that are being served by the Purpose Built Communities model.
SOURCE: WABE 90.1