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- EIN 58-2636418
- (404) 766-0510
- 1892 Washington Rd Atlanta GA 30344-4137 USA
- www.future-foundation.com
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Our mission is to level the playing field for youth in metro atlanta by providing quality education, health, and life skills programs. We call ourselves the future foundation because we encourage kids to dream about, invest in, and prepare for their futures. We prepare students and parents to have the self-confidence to envision a better life, and stand out from the cycle of negativity and hopelessness, and affect change in their lives and communities.
Programs: 2016 program highlights:an independent assessment funded by the community foundation was conducted by greenway strategy consultants to evaluate the partnership between future foundation and communities in schools of atlanta as part of the second family model collaborative. Developed and launched 2017-2019 strategic plan focused on refinement of future foundations second family social impact model100% of teen center senior participants graduated high school and entered post-secondary institutions. Forged new and deepened relationships with the annie e. Casey foundation, bridgespan, ibm, and emorys goizueta business school. Future foundations executive leadership team was selected for annie e. Caseys expanding evidence network fellowship, which provides consulting support to implement innovative strategies using an implementation science framework, rigorous evaluation, and disseminate findings to build knowledge for continuous improvement. A group of goizueta business school students designed a framework for creating a shared data system to support second family model strategy and increase knowledge sharing between multi-sector partners. Leveraged private foundation dollars to renegotiate 21st century, department of education funding to support second family model and complete expansion within the banneker low-performing feeder pattern. Partners submitted letters of support for two us department of health and human services funding opportunities to target students needs and sustain program operations; one was awarded. Received five-year $873,549 (renewed annually) award from the family and youth services bureau (fysb) in october of 2016. The funding supports the second family strategy that uses after school programming as a hub to coordinate multi-sector services in the middle and high schools of historically low-performing school feeder patterns. A 3-year randomized control trial experiment was developed in order to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the second family model.