East Lake Foundation
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
The PGA Tour Championship begins Thursday at East Lake. It’s the final event for the FedEx Cup and the $10-million-dollar bonus. An Atlanta high school student and golf player will be the one to kick things off Thursday.
SOURCE: Fox 5 News
Big Boi will headline this year’s Tee Up ATL kickoff for the PGA Tour Championship. Tickets, including a drink, are $15 and can be purchased at www.teeupatl.com. All proceeds from ticket sales and the mural auction will benefit the East Lake Foundation and Purpose Built Communities.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
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