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Phone: (678) 596-5438
PO BOX 54692
Atlanta
-- 30308
USA
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Direct beneficiaries per year: 50-75

Geographic areas served: Metropolitan Atlanta area

Board Members and Affiliation: YES!Atlanta’s 2009-2010 Board of Directors

Chairman

Michael Mills

President, PR1776

Vice-Chairman

Kevin Campbell

Partner Price WaterHouseCoopers

Treasurer

Eric Waters

Sr. Vice president, Bank of North Georgia

Secretary

Wanda Silva

CEO, Silva Capital Solutions

Michael E. Halpern,

President, The Halpern Corporation, Homebuilder & Designer

Harper Cornell

Edleman- Atlanta

Jennifer Koontz

Pope and Land Enterprises,N.A.I.O.P.

Curt Steinlage

Vice-President, Outback Steakhouse

Don Waddell

General Manager, The Atlanta Thrashers .

STAFF

Shelby Jackson Rogers

Executive Director of YES!Atlanta

Dorothy Wimberly

Deputy Director

Mission:
YES!Atlanta stands for "Youth Experiencing Success"

Founded in 1988, YES!Atlanta’s mission is to enhance the lives of “at-risk” teenagers in metropolitan Atlanta. Its voluntary programs are based upon long-term, empowering contact with caring adults and a wide range of support services offered by collaborative partnerships with other agencies.

All programs are based on principles evolved over a period of twenty years, and have as their primary objectives the following:

* Increase in academic performance

* Reduction in delinquent behavior

* Increase in self-esteem

* Better relationships with family, peers, and authority figures
Results:
Since 1990 have worked intensively with nearly 1,000 youth. Declared a “Point of Light” by Pres. George H.W. Bush
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Michael_in_Atl
01/29/10
I helped found YES!Atlanta in 1988, and served thereafter for over two years as the organization's volunteer executive director. I am still active on the Board of Directors. YES!Atlanta is a long-term mentoring program for inner-city youth that assigns to each participant a trained adult coach. For... more »
Michael_in_Atl
01/15/10
In the mid-1980's I served as a volunteer in the Emergency Room of Atlanta's major municipal hospital. While there I became aware of the hopelessness of many of our less-fortunate teenagers, and I wondered what I could do to make a difference. In 1987 I became involved with a group founding a long-... more »
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