Community Action Café – Page 4

Funder Spotlight: GaDOE’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers

If you haven’t heard the big news, YELLS is a 21st Century Community Learning Center! After many years of applying for this game-changing federal grant through the Georgia Department of Education, our perseverance was rewarded with funding beginning in the 2017-2018 school year. The City of Marietta graciously serves as the…

YELLS Teens on CBS46!

CBS46 visited the Community Action Cafe to hear from YELLS youth about what we’re doing to keep youth on the right track and positively shaping their neighborhood. Read more here, and check out the video below:

YELLS Networking Dinner and Fundraiser

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Imagine if metro Atlanta’s most energetic young change-makers had the opportunity to utilize the power of relationship building and networking to impact their world and their lives. The YELLS Networking Dinner and Fundraiser offers the youth of the YELLS Mentoring Program and YELLS Community Action Cafe just that chance through…

YELLS Teens Grow as Servant-Leaders in Blue Ridge

Who says being a Leader can’t be fun? This year, our Community Action Café teens and Mentoring Program “Bigs” began their journey as servant-leaders with a three-day Retreat jam packed with team building and leadership activities. The North Georgia Mountains provided the perfect landscape for our youth to bond with…

YELLS Academic Pep Rally

On a warm September afternoon, YELLS youth burst through a banner that proudly proclaimed #welovefranklingateway to kick-off the first ever Franklin Gateway Academic Pep Rally! Music boomed around the courtyard as the teens from the Community Action Café and children from the Mentoring and Afterschool programs completed laps giving guests…