Heritage Society, Business Association planning Buckhead’s 175th anniversary celebration event

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In 1838, Henry Irbypurchased just over 202 acres of land surrounding the present intersection ofPeachtree, Roswell and Paces Ferry roads for just $650.

Irby soon established ageneral store and tavern at the junction and a small crossroads community wasborn…the community today known as Buckhead.
On March 1 of next year,the Buckhead Heritage Society, in partnership with the Buckhead BusinessAssociation, will hold an evening gala event at the Buckhead Theatre tocelebrate the 175^th anniversary of the founding of the community.

The restored Buckhead Theatre will be the site for 175th birthday event.

The theatre, itself abit of Buckhead’s history, stands at the historic hub of the once ruralsettlement and across the intersection from where Irby’s Tavern once stood.
The two honoraryco-chairs for the event are Charlie Loudermilk, who in recent years paidmillions to restore the Buckhead Theatre to grandeur, and Sam Massell, theunofficial mayor of Buckhead and probably the Buckhead community’s most activepromoter.

Wilbur Kurtz's watercolor of Henry Irby's Tavern circa 1850, courtesy of
the Atlanta History Center. 

Thinking of what those202 acres Irby bought for $650 are likely worth today, brings to mind a phraseoften pitched by Massell, president of the Buckhead Coalition: “If you buy abit of Buckhead and take care of it today, it will take care of you tomorrow.”
That is somethingBuckhead Heritage and the Buckhead Business Association hope many will considernow as they begin seeking sponsors for the March 1, 2013 event.  The two groups are seeking corporate and individualsponsors willing to contribute between $1,000 and $10,000 to preserve the community's history for future generations to enjoy.
Proceeds from the event,billed as “Buckhead’s 175^th Anniversary: Yesterday, Today andTomorrow,” will benefit the creation of a “Master History Plan” for thecommunity that will map out how to integrate historic sites and stories intothe Buckhead Collection—a system of new parks, trails and green spaces beingspearheaded by Livable Buckhead, Inc.

Wright Mitchell,
president of Buckhead
Historic Society

According to WrightMitchell, president of Buckhead Heritage Society, “The history planning projectwill develop our storylines, identify which sites we should use to tell ourhistory, and recommend the best ways to share each story with thecommunity—through signage, exhibits, public art, publications or digitalmedia.”
Guests at the March 1 eventwill experience a photographic retrospective of Buckhead’s history, which willeducate, entertain and encourage those guests to share their own memories ofthe ever-evolving community of Buckhead. But that is not all, guests will alsoenjoy music, dancing, drinks and hors d’oeuvres.
In addition to thehonorary co-chairs, Caroline and Boyd Leake are co-chairs for the event and thehost committee chairs are Blain and Ivan Allen, and Carter and Hampton Morris.
Those $10,000 PresentingSponsors will get 12 tickets for guests to the event with access to a privateVIP section, prominent recognition on all printed and electronic eventpromotion, company name and logo on up to 1500 invitations, company logo on theBuckhead Theatre marquee prior to and during the event, company logo andhyperlink on web pages and newsletters of both Buckhead Heritage and BuckheadBusiness Association and other promotional opportunities.

Honorary co-chair
Sam Massell

Honorary co-chair
Charlie Loudermilk

Gold Sponsors at $5,000get eight guest tickets with access to the private VIP section and $2,500Silver Sponsors get four guest tickets with access to the private VIP section.The $1,000 Bronze Sponsors get four guest tickets to the event.  The other some of the other benefits remainthe same for all levels of sponsors, but some benefits disappear as the sponsorlevel gets smaller.
Sponsor commitment mustbe received by Dec. 14 of this year for recognition on the event invitations.So, think about investing in a bit of Buckhead today, if 2013 budget planningis now underway.
For further informationabout sponsorships or the event, contact Erica Danylchak, executive director ofthe Buckhead Heritage Society, at 404-467-9447, or email her atedanylchak@buckheadheritage.com.
For more informationabout Buckhead Heritage, go to www.buckheadheritage.com and for information about theBuckhead Business Association go to www.buckheadbusiness.org.

Buckhead's Regent Partners buys King & Queen corporate complex in Central Perimeter market

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Buckhead-headquartered Regent Partners LLC has acquiredConcourse Corporate Center, home to Atlanta's "King and Queen"buildings, which mark Atlanta’s Central Perimeter market for commercial development.The purchase price was reported at more than $300 million.

The signature King & Queen office towers of Concourse Corporate Center,
with the Westin Hotel at left backing up to the lake of the 20 year old
64-acre Central Perimeter market development. 

The 64-acre Concourse Corporate Center, located at theintersection of I-285 and GA 400, includes 2.2 million square feet in twohigh-rise towers and three mid-rise office buildings, a Westin Hotel, theConcourse Athletic Club and KinderCare Child Learning Center.
"Concourse has historically been known as the premieroffice and mixed-use environment in the Central Perimeter submarket," accordingto David Allman, founder and chairman of Regent Partners, in a AtlantaCommercial Properties E Newsletter report.
"We look forward to securing that position for the longterm by undertaking substantial steps forward in the areas of service andvalue-added, capital-related improvements," Allman added. 
Concourse’soffice towers are collectively 83 percent occupied, but the partnershipbelieves it can attract new corporate tenants because of its access to MARTA,amenities, and upgrades to the Hammond Half-Diamond Interchange.
The new ownership of the 20-year-old development includesaffiliates of GEM Realty Capital and Equity Group Investments, along with fundsmanaged by Farallon Capital Management. The seller was TIAA-CREF. CBRE Inc.brokered the transaction.

Charlie Heard new VPof development for Sembler in Atlanta

Charlie Heard

Charlie Heard has been named The Sembler Company’s vicepresident of development and Southeast market leader based in the firm’sAtlanta office. He replaces Jeff Fuqua, who left the firm months ago toestablish his own company, Fuqua Development.
According to the report by REBusiness Online newsletter, Heard’sduties include pursuing new shopping center development opportunities inGeorgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Heard has more than 25 years of real estate experience in retailand residential development as well as commercial land sales in the Southeast.His past retail clients include Publix, Kroger, Target, The Home Depot, BestBuy, CVS/pharmacy and Walgreen’s.
Crocker Partnersacquires Prominence building in Buckhead

Prominence office building in Buckhead

Boca Raton, Fla.-based Crocker Partners has acquired the18-story, 432,000-square-foot Class A Prominence office building in Buckheadsubmarket for $105 million, according to REBusiness Online newsletter. 
The building is located at 3475 Piedmont Road in Buckhead.
Crocker Partners owns and manages approximately 2.5 millionsquare feet of office space in the Atlanta market. “Our strategy focuses ontop-tier assets in second-tier cities,” says Tom Crocker, managing partner withCrocker Partners.
TIAA-CREF and Equity Office Properties sold the property, whichwas under contract this past summer.

APS head Davis discusses removal of North Atlanta High administration with angry parents, students

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AtlantaPublic Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis Jr. faced a capacity crowd ofparents and students at North Atlanta High School Tuesday night to explain theabrupt removal of the interim principal Mark MyGrant and several top members ofhis administration last Friday.

APS Superintendent Erroll Davis Jr. 

Hismessage was clear: Administrators were abruptly reassigned because the schoolwas, at one point, in danger of being taken over by the state, for poorperformance Davis told a hostile meeting with parents and students in a filled gymnasium.
“Thisschool needs to be a lot more than it is,” Davis told an audience that was bothstunned and angry. “If we didn’t do anything here, the state would have seizedthis school and fired all the leadership in the process.”
Schoolofficials removed interim principal Mark MyGrant, assistant principal MelissaGautreaux and three of the school’s academy leaders Friday. But, denyingreports by some media and parents, Davis said none of those removed from theirpositions were escorted by security out of the school.
HowardTaylor of Gwinnett County Public Schools has been hired as North Atlanta High’snew principal and will start Oct. 29. In the interim, Sid Baker, formerprincipal of Sarah Smith Elementary, will serve as principal and eight centraloffice administrators will also help with the transition.
NorthAtlanta High is known for its International Baccaleureate program, one of theoldest in the southeast, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report.In 2011, its graduating seniors received more than $20 million in scholarships.

The crowd started gathering early for the 6 p.m. meeting with Davis in
the gymnasium of North Atlanta High School. 

The AJCreports that 52 percent of its students receive free or reduced lunch, belowthe system average of 76 percent. In 2010-11, the most current year available,SAT scores were 1,439 — higher than the system average of 1,312, according tostate data.
But thesituation Davis described to parents Tuesday night was much different. Hereported that  test scores lagged at theschool and administrators became apathetic. The school’s graduation rate standsat 62 percent. He also pointed to structural flaws in the school, although hewouldn’t be specific.
“Thisschool has a lot of potential,” he said. “But its performance data says itneeds to be turned around. This should be our premier school in this city,” he toldthe large audience gathered in the school’s gymnasium. 

"We are moving into a $100 million facility," Davis said referring to the news high school to open in 2013. "I want out performance as a system and as a school to be on that level as well."   

Howard Taylor who
will begin as the new
principal on Oct. 29. 

Davispointed to performance data for the school that shows for “2007-2011, a 5 yearperiod, this school did not make AYP (average yearly progress).  We are aNI4 school, under state monitoring and reporting.  If you miss one moreyear, 6 years, you go to NI5 status.  If we did nothing here and had thesame performance this year as last and went to NI5, the state would have seizedthis school and fired all leadership in the process,” he explained.
“Thegood thing is the state has given us an AYP waiver and the state will not takeover this school,” he announced.
“We aremoving to Common Core, a higher standard, and I think it is a legitimatequestion for me to ask ‘If I have a team that didn’t make the lowest standardsfor the past 5 years, why would those leaders make the higher standards overthe next year?’ he told the audience.
“Graduation rate here 62%, but 7th from the bottom in APS,” hesaid.  “Sixty-two percent means we are failing every 4 out of 10 of ourchildren.”  
Davistold the audience, “I looked at performance and I’ve come to the conclusionthat with a dynamic new principal coming that I want him to have everyopportunity to succeed.  He’s turned around schools, he can pick goodleaders and he’s gotten outcomes and results.  I am putting him in aposition to do that,” he added.

Mark MyGrant, who was
removed as interim
principal on Friday.

In themiddle of Davis answering a parent’s question, removed interim principal MyGrant, whohas vowed to clear his name, walked through the gym to screaming and applausefrom students and parents.

Those who arrived early to the meeting were greeted by students on the sidewalks with signs reading "We deserve answers," according to the Northside Neighbor newspaper. And earlier in the day, parents held a press conference at the school where they distributed shirts saying "APS Customer Satisfaction 0%," the Buckhead Reporter reported.
Startingalmost a half-hour after the announced 6 p.m. meeting time, Davis began bytelling the audience, “Many of you have wanted to ask me questions and this iswhy I’m here.  Thank you for showing passion for your school, particularlyfor the students. It’s important for you to understand how this process worksas well,” he said.
“Let meadmit in advance, we potentially may have an unsatisfactory discussion,” Davistold the audience of parents and students. “As many of you well know, it’s inappropriate todiscuss specific personnel matters in a public forum. I will not talk aboutindividual matters.”
He saidthat after he presented his overview, “I will answer some questions. You willhopefully get, if not satisfaction, clarity,” he added. Questions he got andquestions he fielded for more than an hour and a half.
Onequestioner asked Davis: “When did you decide that it wasn’t necessary to notifyour parents before you made this decision.”
Daviscalmly, but forcefully answered: “Your question implies that I should consultparents on every personnel issue. There is never a time when I seek a set ofpermissions from people who do not have to carry out the duties that come withthe responsibility.”
For anunedited blow-by-blow account of Davis’s opening remarks and the questions andanswers during the session as reported live by APS staff, go here.

Case status still big ? in theft of E. Rivers PTA funds

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It has been more than seven months now—spanning two school years—since the theft of E. Rivers ElementaryPTA and Foundation funds by a Buckhead parent, bank officer and PTA presidentfirst became news. There still is no indictment in the case and no indicationwhen or if there will be one.

The encouraging news isthat Zone 2 Community Prosecutor Tiffany Harlow, of the Fulton County DistrictAttorney’s Office, is now in the process of reviewing the files she receivedfrom the detectives in the Atlanta Police Departments Major Crimes Major FraudUnit. 
To update our readers onthe case, here are some of the facts as they have unfolded:

Marie Arjomand photo at
time of her arrest in April

• Last March, news storiesappeared about major amounts of funds—meant to go to the E. Rivers ParentTeachers Association and the school’s Foundation to support extra-curricular studentprograms—that had been diverted by former PTA president Marie Arjomand to a bankaccount to which only she had access.
• The bank account wasopened by Arjomand at the Signature Bank in Sandy Springs, where she was anemployee and officer. The account application included the forged names of atleast two other officers of the E. Rivers PTA, one being the PTA’s treasurer,Shane Lord.
• Although it stillremains unclear exactly how much money was diverted by Arjomand from the PTAand Foundation, estimates have ranged from $54,000 to well over $100,000.
• The case has beeninvestigated by the Atlanta Police Department and the APD arrested Arjomand inApril after turning over the case to the Fulton DA for prosecution. Arjomandgot out of jail immediately on a signature bond.
• In what many consider anadmission of guilt, Arjomand reportedly has repaid at least a portion of thefunds she is accused of diverting from the PTA and Foundation.
• In the early summer, thecase was kicked back to the APD for further investigation by Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney Paul Howard because, Howard said, the APD investigator hadonly talked to one person—Arjomand.
• Shane Lord, one of thekey persons whose name was forged on the bank account documents, has never beeninterviewed by either the APD or the Fulton DA’s staff to date.
• For months now, somemembers of the PTA, who were involved with discovering and reporting the theftsin the first place, have refused to talk about the investigation and, in fact,have tried to squelch any discussion of the crimes.

Zone 2 Community Prosecutor
Tiffany Harlow

 Only BuckheadView, amongthe local media, continues to pursue a resolution to the investigation andpossible prosecution of the case—trying to keep it from becoming a cold case.
Harlow said this type ofcase would normally be handled in the white collar crime section of the DA’soffice. However, “I have taken an interest in the situation” and she now hasbecome involved in determining if there will be an indictment or not.
“We are not going toindict until we are actually sure” about the elements of the case and theproper course of action, Harlow told BuckheadView this week.  She is working with the person in charge ofthe white collar crime section within the DA’s office in evaluating thematerials presented by the APD, which she received about three or four weeksago.
Harlow told BuckheadViewthis week this is a case that impacts the Buckhead community and there is agood deal of community interest in it. As she attends community meetings she hasoften been asked questions about the case, including many from BuckheadView.
She said this is acomplex case with a lot of investigation reports involving statements frompeople involved with the PTA and school administration, information from anaudit of the bank and the account that was opened there, and it involves a lotof numbers, not all of which apparently match up or add up.

Fulton DA Paul Howard

Asked if there had beenadditional investigation work done by the APD after the DA’s office initiallykicked the case back to them because of insufficient investigation, Harlowresponded, “A little more.” 
DA Howard was questionedby BuckheadView about the case July 11 when he was presiding over theintroduction of Harlow as the new Zone 2 Community Prosecutor during a event ather Buckhead office on Grandview Avenue.
At that time, Howardsaid his office had originally charged Arjomand but he discovered that “therewas apparently more to the case than was indicated on the (APD) investigator’sreport.”
Howard toldBuckheadView, “We heard from a number of people regarding additional aspects tothe case and discovered that the investigator had only interviewed the womanwho committed the crime and had not done a thorough investigation of the case.”
BuckheadView told Howardof the situation of Shane Lord, an attorney who was the treasurer of the PTAduring the time the theft of funds took place and who had his name forged ondocuments to open the account at Signature Bank in Sandy Springs where Arjomanddeposited the funds. Lord has never been contacted or interviewed by theAtlanta Police investigator.

Marie Arjomand in photo taken when
she was an officer of Signature Bank

Arjomand was an officerof Signature Bank and was the agent of record for the bank’s holding company,Signature Bankcorp. The account was opened in the name of the E. Rivers PTA,but Arjomand was the only person authorized to withdraw funds from the account.
Arjomand did not takethe funds (estimates range from $54,000 to over $100,000 over a period of threeyears) out of the PTA’s legitimate bank account at Bank of America. Shepersonally collected the funds from individuals and organizations who pledgedthe money to the PTA and deposited those funds in the Signature Bank accountrather than the PTA’s Bank of America account, according to statements by Lord,former presidents of the PTA and police documents. 
Howard said in July theLord situation is exactly the type of information his office had received thatmade him kick the case back to the APD for “further, proper and thoroughinvestigation.”
However, BuckheadViewcontacted Lord on Wednesday and asked if he had yet been interviewed by eitherthe APD or the DA’s staff. Lord said he had not been contacted by anyone fromeither agency.

Shane Lord

Jenny Nix, another ofthe PTA officers who had her named forged on the bank account by Arjomand, wentto the APD on her own and made a written statement that Marie Arjomand hadforged her name on the document that allowed her to open a PTA account atSignature bank.
“I also gave them a copyof the check ($500) that I had written to Lions Pride that she depositeddirectly in Signature Bank as well,” Nix said in an email in June. She said shegave the statement to Sgt. D. M. Ricks and also met Sgt. Cooper, who was theinitial lead investigator on the case at APD. 
Nix wrote that theofficers told her the statement would allow them to file forgery chargesagainst Arjomand.  Forgery is a felony inGeorgia and can carry a 1-10 year prison sentence.
Lord told BuckheadView in late June that Nix told him to go to APD and give astatement, “but I was then told by the PTA to wait until I was contacted byAPD.”

It is another school year at Buckhead's E. Rivers Elementary 

BuckheadVierw asked Harlowthis week if she knew if Arjomand still lived in the Peachtree Hillsneighborhood near the school. Harlow said she did not know. Harlow said theywould only become concerned about where Arjomand is living if and when anindictment is handed down.
Harlow referredBuckheadView to the APD for information about that and any questions regardingthe extent of the investigation.
Harlow made it clearthat it is not the purview of the DA’s office to conduct the investigation in acase like this. It is the job of her office to determine if there is enoughevidence and reason to indict the individual for a crime and, if so, toprosecute the individual. Stay tuned.

Urban Design Commission likely to defer action until Oct. 24 on Randolph-Lucas House demo application

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The issuance of demolition permit for Buckhead’s historicRandolph-Lucas House by Atlanta’s  Officeof Buildings likely will have to wait a little longer after the city’s Urban DesignCommission was expected to defer a “review and comment” hearing Wednesday afternoon untilOct. 24.

Randolph-Lucas House in front of 2500 Peachtree Condominiums

The 2500 Peachtree Condominiums Association has submitted a Review and Comment Application with the AtlantaUrban Design Commission that was to have been heard at 4 p.m. on Oct. 10 atCity Hall.
However, Buckhead HeritageSociety President Wright Mitchell on Tuesday predicted the commission would decide to defer thehearing and vote for two weeks on the recommendation by city's  staff.
The condo association is seeking "reviewand comment" on their plan to demolish the Lucas House and replace it withan "open air pavilion." As required by city ordinance, theassociation has also cross filed with the Office of Buildings for a demolitionpermit for the house, which is located in front of the condominiums onPeachtree Road at Lindbergh Drive.
The proposed "open air pavilion" must occupy the same footprint as the house if it replaces the house and that amounts to 2,625 square feet, according to Mitchell. 
However, Mitchell told BuckheadView over coffeeon Tuesday that the Urban Design Commission must, according to city procedures,hold its hearing and take a vote on the application before the Office ofBuildings can issue the demolition permit. The UDC also most act within 45 days of receiving the application for review. 
Mitchell also told BuckheadView that, becausethe house is only registered as “historic” and not as a “landmark,” whateveraction the Design Commission takes will only become a recommendation. He saidcity law clearly states the Office of Buildings “will issue a demolitionpermit” following the commission’s hearing and action.

Buckhead Heritage Society
President Wright Mitchell

“Since the AUDC has only ‘review and comment’authority over historic structures like the Lucas House, they do not have theauthority to stop the demolition of the house and the subsequent erection of apavilion,” Mitchell told BuckheadView. “The Office of Buildings cannot deny anapplication for a demolition permit provided the requirements of the ‘reviewand comment’ process have been met. And it appears that they have,” Mitchelladded.
TheRandolph-Lucas House is part of the Peachtree Heights Park District, anationally recognized historic site. Hollins Nichols Randolph, a prominentAtlanta attorney, built the red brick residence in 1924. It is a rare remainingexample of the mansions that once lined Peachtree Road in Buckhead.
Whenthe original developer built the condominiums in 1997, one of the stipulationsof the permit was moving the house 35 feet forward from its foundation and torenovate it. After the developer finished the project the condo market tankedand the developer only sold 50 percent of the units. The bank foreclosed on theproperty.
Thehome has sat virtually untouched since the development of the condos. Theassociation, citing the condition of the structure and cost of repairs, beganexploring the demolition permit, prompting a backlash from historians andNeighborhood Planning Unit B members.
Both Mitchell, through Buckhead Heritage, andNeighborhood Planning Unit-B chair Sally Silver have been working to save thehistoric Buckhead mansion from being razed and have been trying to work out anarrangement to move it to another suitable site, hopefully in Buckhead. But Mitchell and Silver have differing views asto the probable fate of the house if the condo association is successful inobtaining the demolition permit. Mitchell believes the association will moveforward to raze the house. Mitchell told BuckheadView he has had about 20 callsfrom parties interested in moving and preserving the house, but it will taketime to arrange for that to happen.
Silver told the board of NPU-B Oct. 2 the issuance of thedemolition permit does not mean it is going to be “demo’ed” because the samepermit is required to move a building as is required to demolish it.

Neighborhood Planning Unit-B
Chair Sally Silver

Silversaid she too is working groups interested in preserving the home, but saidthere will be no formal announcements until all of the details are finalized.And, she said she has been meeting frequently with the management of the condoassociation. “The condo association is in no way shape or form threatening totear down the building,” Silver said.
Mitchellwas asked if he thought the condo association was moving forward aggressivelyto obtain a demolition permit as a tactic to spur some greater activity amongthose who want to preserve and move the house to another suitable location anduse.
Mitchelladmitted to BuckheadView that if he were the attorneys representing the condoassociation, “I likely would recommend pursuing the same course” as they arefollowing.
Hesaid he understands that the condo association wants to get the house off theirhands because it is very costly to repair and maintain and it cannot be used bythem because there is no active certificate of occupancy issued for the house. 
Hesaid he would love to see the house moved to a location where it could berepaired and used as a community center or a facility for an arts organizationor maybe even a clubhouse for a golf course, maybe some use at Chastain Park.But he admits there are no public or charitable funds available for somethinglike that.
Hesaid there are two estimates for moving the house that are in the $350,000range. However, he said the cost of bringing the house up to code foruse—repairing and refurbishing it—could run up to $1 million. He added, “Wedon’t know about that because the condo association has not allowed us to takeexperts in the property to come up with estimates.”
Hesaid no one is realistically going to agree to pay to move the house withoutknowing what it is going to cost to refurbish it. Mitchell said the condoassociation has said it would allow people to do that type of review of thehouse, but only after the demolition permit is issued by the city. 

SEM Link

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I would like to introduce you to Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc (SEM Link), a nonprofit that promotes student achievement and career exploration in math and science for K-12 students. We achieve our mission by recruiting STEM professionals and retirees as well as undergraduate and graduate students to implement our programs. SEM Link has two core programs: the Experimental Design Program and the Math and Science Career Academy, which provide students with opportunities to develop the classroom learning experience in addition to teaching them skills that are transferable to other areas of life. Our Experimental Design Program teaches students how to design and conduct experiments for math and science fairs utilizing research, laboratory and scientific literacy skills gained through individual and group learning opportunities as well as mentoring  Our Math and Science Career Academy exposes students to math and science through hands-on activities, real-world applications and career exploration.  Since our inception, we have enhanced the math and science educational experiences for over 1000 youth in Atlanta, Georgia and San Francisco Bay Area.  
SEM Link has a diversity of opportunities for individuals or groups that want to give of their time and/or professional expertise to help the organization achieve its mission. You can find more information about the various volunteer opportunities on our Volunteers Page on our website.  However, the volunteer opportunity that I’m recruiting for is a Hands on Activity Leader for the after-school programs of our community partners. These programs take place Monday through Thursday from 2:30-5:30pm at local middle and elementary schools. This volunteer opportunity will require approximately 1 hour and half of your day (an hour to implement the activity and approximately 15 minutes before and after the activity for set up and clean up). We would like to extend this volunteer opportunity to students, faculty, and staff in your institution's STEM-related departments. Please have interested volunteers complete our Volunteer Information form (link is provided below). They may also e-mail me directly at sstennett@semsuccess.org for more information
For more information about SEM Link feel free to visit our website at www.semsuccess.org. If you have any questions about the volunteer opportunities please contact me via email atsstennett@semsuccess.org. Thank you in advance for  your consideration in  volunteering with our organization and help  us “unveil potential through exposure”.
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The Posse Foundation

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The Posse Foundation is an organization that awards student leaders full-tuition scholarships to top colleges and universities around the country.  In addition to awarding these prestigious scholarships, we conduct an 8-month training program for students before they go off to school in the fall to better prepare them for what they will encounter.  One of the components of their training is a writing program, for which we recruit writing coaches to work with the students. We need volunteers to be those training coaches preferably graduate students. 


Contact: The Posse Foundation, Inc.101 Marietta Street, N.W.
Suite 1040Atlanta, GA 30303tel: (404) 751-3340
fax: (404) 751-3349camilleg@possefoundation.orghttp://www.possefoundation.org