Breaking the cycle of poverty has been an elusive goal for generations. But one of the leaders in the war on poverty for more than 25 years – Carol Naughton – said: “We need to embrace this idea of continuous improvement.”
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Carol Naughton named CEO of Purpose Built Communities
The board of Purpose Built Communities on Thursday afternoon named Carol R. Naughton as its new CEO. Naughton has been serving as the nonprofits interim CEO since the departure of David Edwards earlier this year.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Women who raise funds
Plus, that new tall glass thing by the Connector in Midtown.
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East Lake developer sent back to drawing board for more affordable apartments
$1,600 not affordable enough, say board members.
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Purpose Built Communities looking for a new CEO as David Edwards steps down
A leadership transition is under way at Atlanta-based Purpose Built Communities, one of the most impactful nonprofits devoted to community revitalization across the country.
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Investing in our future by preserving federal tax credit programs
By Guest Columnist CHRIS WOMACK, executive vice president and president of external affairs for Southern Company
Without federal tax policy that fueled sorely needed capital investment in her long-neglected community, Gloria Kitchens might not be where she is today – studying at Tufts University after graduating Drew Charter Senior Academy in 2017.
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Atlanta’s Purpose Built Communities holds national meeting in Midtown
A game-changing nonprofit – Atlanta-based Purpose Built Communities – is marking its 10-year anniversary by hosting its 10th annual conference at the Loew’s Atlanta Hotel.
It will be the third time Purpose Built has held its annual three-day national conference in Atlanta.
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Column: Civic Atlanta: Bank of America giving; New East Lake board members
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Aug. 31, 2018
On Aug. 23, Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) made 19 local nonprofits quite happy when representatives visited the various organizations.
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Photo Pick: Bird biodiversity in East Lake by Luz Borrero
Hidden just a little bit out of sight in East Lake, is a place where residents share space with birds and other wildlife. East Lake Commons is a cohousing community. That means the folks there live in private homes, but cluster around shared space and collaboratively plan and manage community activities. East Lake’s founding residents and […]
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An introduction of SaportaReport’s newest columnist – King Williams
It started out with a simple question, “Momma, where did the people go?”
I was a young teen at the time, and the seemingly simple question perplexed my mom and also perplexed everyone else I would ask until I reached my senior year of college.
“Those people” were the people of East Lake Meadows, a public housing project on the Eastside of Atlanta which sat right in-between the city limits of Atlanta and my native city of Decatur.
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Atlanta Housing votes for East Lake refinance, renovations
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.
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AHA board misses deadline to call special meeting to refinance East Lake project; sends letter instead
The Atlanta Housing Authority did not call a special board meeting by Wednesday evening to vote on a plan to refinance the debt on the Villages of East Lake – a date needed for the project to receive $5 million in federal funds.
The Cousins Foundation sent a pointed letter to AHA’s board and executives following their Feb. 28th board meeting, when they did not put the East Lake financing on the agenda.
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Update: Cousins Foundation mad at AHA board over East Lake refinancing
By Maria Saporta The CF Foundation, which spearheaded the revitalization of the Villages of East Lake community 20 years ago, has been unable to get the Atlanta Housing Authority to vote on refinancing the development to allow for the renovation of the property. Lillian Giornelli, president of the CF Foundation, has sent a letter to […]
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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: District 5
Voters in parts of Atlanta from Downtown to East Lake have a choice for their District 5 City Council seat this year: a veteran of City Hall or a first-time candidate. City services and the cost of housing top are top issues, the candidates say.
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Purpose Built adds Atlanta’s Grove Park to its national network
Atlanta-based Purpose Built Communities will partner with a new Grove Park neighborhood organization to revive a community in the same way the founders of the nonprofit have revitalized East Lake and areas around the country.
The Grove Park Foundation, a newly-formed nonprofit that grew out of the Emerald Corridor Foundation, joins the East Lake Foundation as the second Atlanta-based member of the Purpose Built Communities Network.
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X marks signs of an Atlanta murder remembered
Pass through Kirkwood and East Atlanta, and still you’ll see the simple symbol X everywhere. In spray paint graffiti on utility poles, on mass-produced placards in homeowners’ yards, in duct tape on a street sign near the spot where X’avier Arnold, 21, died the day after Christmas—these signs remain all over these east Atlanta neighborhoods.
Here, the X reminds the public that memorials don’t have to be made of stone or steel to endure. Sometimes the strength of collective resolve is enough: X stands for a community’s desire to end the kind of violence that claimed his life.
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Move over, big profit Amazon. Make room for Little Free Libraries.
A computer will forever spit out a list of “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought….”
But for those of us who want books that tell us stories about our neighbors’ tastes and experiences, and bring us into conversation and community, here’s a recommendation: Little Free Libraries.
Resembling large birdhouses, the Little Free Libraries are weatherproof cabinets with a couple of dozen books inside. Borrow one, read it, bring it back, or bring another. No cards, no fines.
It’s the charm of yard art, the wonder of a message in a bottle, sprinkled with the spell cast by a deft writer.
