East Lake Foundation Announces Leadership Team Promotions
The East Lake Foundation announces the promotion and a role change for two current members of its team. Catherine Woodling has been promoted from Director…
From Firebombs to Parks: An East Lake Atlanta Woman’s Lifelong Fight
Riding the bus from a public housing development to the richest neighborhood in Atlanta changed Shannon Heath Longino’s life. Longino was just two weeks old when she moved with her grandmother to East Lake Meadows, a newly built public housing community at the easternmost edge of Atlanta.
Women Changing the Game: Jakari Harris
Biomedical Engineering PhD student and a former member of the First Tee of Metro Atlanta Jakari Harris joins Golf Central to discuss the role that golf has had in shaping her future.
Atlanta high school graduation rates increase for class of 2021
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.
Start:ME Accelerator Program Seeking Entrepreneurs for the 2022 Program, Offering $30K in Grants to Small Businesses in Clarkston, East Lake, Southside Atlanta
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…
COVID-19 Resources for Families and Students
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…
TOUR Championship’s Incredible Impact
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…
Charity Challenge Raises Nearly $1.4 Million for East Lake Foundation
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.
JUSTIN ROSE AND MARIAH STACKHOUSE TO HEADLINE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP CHARITY CHALLENGE
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.
Nonprofit recipients of tournament funds look to the future
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.
First Tee duo stunned to learn of Tour Championship honor
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.
Bank of America 2021 Student Leaders Work with Atlanta Nonprofits
Paid Summer Internships Connect Atlanta Youth to Career Building Opportunities with East Lake Foundation and Grove Park Foundation Atlanta – Bank of America recently selected…
