Sponsors & Partners News

The East Atlanta Kids Club is pleased to announce we have received a $2,500 grant from the Atlanta Braves Foundation. East Atlanta Kids Club (EAKC) will use the award to support both their Kids Club and Teen Club after-school programs, and to support our  mission to build a promising future for the children of southeast…

East Atlanta Kids Club invites you to Sip.Savor.Support. on Friday, 11/11/11 from 6pm – 10pm! Enjoy fine wine, beer and fresh seasonal delights cooked up by Chef Seth Freedman of the East Atlanta Village Farmer’s Market. Guests will also have the chance to bid on silent auction items featuring art, wine, books, and other gourmet goodies.
All proceeds of the event…

By Michael Lindsay

The kids here make the garden grow.
Riding the uptick of urban gardening sweeping through Atlanta and the nation, youth in the East Atlanta Kids Club are learning about gardening and healthy eating through hands-on activities in the Brownwood Park Community Garden.  Located just south of Glenwood Avenue near Moreland Avenue, Brownwood Park…

Enjoy tasting of wines from around the world, beer for the special palate and interactive art tasting, on Saturday, April 9

The smart new school bus donated to Kids Club by U.S. Micro Corp (see Spotlight feature here) is now in service!
EAKC staff studied for and passed our CDL (Commercial Drivers License) exams (not an easy test, we’ll have you know) and we are now good to go to transport our youth members to and from…

  
On Saturday, Sept. 11 about 60 employees from Turner Broadcasting came to Brownwood Recreation Center for a fun and enriching day of volunteer service.
The Turner folks and many of their children joined the youth members of East Atlanta Kids Club in a variety of educational activities, including reading, literacy games, and creating decorative bookmarks. …

All3Sports, one of the premier triathlon and bike shops in the country, is sponsoring a charity event to support East Atlanta Kids Club and TriKids, Inc. The event will feature a run in Piedmont Park with World Champion and Ironman Champion Pro Athletes and other triathlon enthusiasts and supporters in Atlanta….

On June 11, 2010, East Atlanta Kids Club was proud to host Deloitte’s 2010 IMPACT Day for the second consecutive year. Nearly 40 Atlanta-based Deloitte consultants took a day off from their regular workday to make some much needed improvements to Brownwood Recreation Center and parts of the park just in time for summer Kids Club activities.

East Atlanta Kids Club is excited to announce a new college and career readiness program developed with two new partners, CREW Teens ( www.drewcharterschool.org) and Kaplan Education (www.kaplan.com).  The East Lake Foundation’s CREW (Creating Responsible, Educated and Working) Teens program is designed to help local teens complete high school and plan for post-secondary education and…

East Atlanta Kids Club was honored to receive Mayor-Elect Kasim Reed at our annual holiday luncheon at Brownwood Recreation Center last Saturday. On Dec. 12, Mr. Reed took a tour of the center and got to know many of the youth in our after-school program, as well as their family members and volunteers who were on hand.