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Spring 2025 Fundraiser
🌟 Our Spring Fundraiser Kicks Off April 1st! 🌟
Our current mentorship program session is quickly coming to a close, and we’ve been honored to walk alongside our incredible students—and grateful to have you cheering them on every step of the way. Now, it’s time to reload for the next session, and we need YOUR help!
This is part of our annual fundraising campaign goal of $20,000, and our Spring Fundraiser goal is $5,000. Every dollar raised from April 1st to April 30th will be used to:
🔹 Increase the number of student opportunities to participate in summer on-campus college experiences
🔹 Provide uniforms to reduce the burden on families to meet professional dress code standards for off-site events
🔹 Expand our college and career coaching partnership to streamline and automate the program tracking process
🔹 Expand our financial literacy program to support additional students
🔹 Provide private transportation for all off-site events, reducing reliance on school transportation requests
🔹 Increase scholarship funding to support more students enrolling in the program next year
Stay tuned for ways to donate, share, and get involved—or click here to donate early! 📩
Let’s keep the momentum going! 💪✨ #SupportOurYouth #MentorshipMatters #TurnerFoundation
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Previous Events
Turner Foundation for Community Advocacy Inaugural Awards Ceremony and Silent Auction
September, 14, 2024 at Vanda House
The students in the mentorship program will be awarded for their hard work and dedication to successfuly completing the 14-week mentorship program.
The students successfully identified a community problem they wanted to bring attention, awareness, and resources to help solve and from that exercise they created a group problem statement focused on what improvements they want to see in their community regarding this issue and presented it at a live Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) meeting while successfully completing various coalition building exercises along the way.
January 2024 - The Turner Foundation Mentorship Program
- Program Introduction at Therell High School October 2023
- Applicant Interviews scheduled to take place November 2023
- Final Applicant Selections scheduled to take place December 2023
- Selectee Announcements December 2023
- Orientation and Program Kick off – January 2024
November 2023 (Project Beautify the Park)
Basketball court Mural Installation at Stone Hogan Park - November 9th thru the 17th
The Turner Foundation for Community Advocacy is so excited to reveal the mural concept design that will be installed on the basketball court at Stone Hogan Park by SCAD via their Paint our Parks program November 9th -17th (Weather Permitting)! Thank you to Dean Ballas, Sr Executive Director of SCAD POP program and his entire team, LIFE Church of Atlanta, City of Atlanta Parks & Recreation Department, Neighborhood Planning Unit R, Tara Buckner, Urban Planner, City of Atlanta Parks & Recreation Department, and Council Member Overstreet, together we are transforming the Stone Hogan Park Community!
July 2023 (Project Beautify the Park)
Community Engagement Town Hall with SCAD, Parks, & Rec and MTB Atlanta
July 23rd at 1:00pm ET
Life Church of Atlanta
3243 Stone Rd SW, Atlanta, GA 30331
Meeting Agenda:
- Conceptualize Mural for Stone Hogan Park basketball court
- Review options for new playground set for the park
- Learn about the mixed use hiking and mountain biking trail for the park
April - June 2023 (Project Light up the Park)
The City of Atlanta Parks & Recreation Department in partnership with Georgia Power is currently in the “Light up the park” phase of the renewal project at Stone Hogan Park. Nineteen new dusk-to-dawn LED pole lights are being installed throughout the park, the parking lot, the basketball court, and along the walking path.
April 22, 2023 Earth Day (Project Safety and Security)
Trees Atlanta, Park Pride, City of Atlanta Parks & Recreation Department, and Life Church of Atlanta team up to clean up Stone Hogan Park!
Over 100 volunteers joined in to remove hundreds of pounds of trash from the park. Additionally, the volunteer force successfully removed and cleared our large areas of forest undergrowth that significantly improved visibility into and out of the park to serve as a deterrent to crime. The volunteer army also beautified the picnic pavilion area with a fresh coat of paint on the picnic tables and benches around the park.
