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.
In the latest push of a pioneering attempt to revive failing schools, Atlanta Public Schools turned over Carver High School to outsiders who restructured it and hired new teachers. APS handed over Carver operations this year to the nonprofit Purpose Built Schools Atlanta, a spin-off of the well-regarded Drew Charter School.
The PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta, moves to August in 2019. The golf season’s final tournament will be played Aug. 19-25, 2019, at the East Lake Golf Club’s manicured grass. The move is part of the tour’s revamped 46-tournament schedule for next season, announced Tuesday.
Applause and some shouts of joy answered a unanimous vote of the board of Atlanta’s housing authority on Wednesday afternoon — it came from Villages of East Lake residents and supporters who’ve been lobbying for a deal to finance neighborhood renovations.
The graph shows that 82% of this year’s graduates from Drew Charter School enrolled in college, which is the highest rate in APS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
