At Future Foundation, our board is vital to setting our direction and helping us attain our goals. We’re very pleased to welcome six new board members. Maurice Anderson owns The Anderson Business Group, which provides business strategy and executive leadership development and coaching. Gerone Conyers, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Engineering – NXPOINT Solutions. […]
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“We [Heart] UPS”
Since 2012, UPS has awarded Future Foundation more than $50,000 to support after-school programming. In early 2015, we requested additional funding to support the Reef House Afterschool Program (RHAP) Digital Learning Lab Project. Digital media is altering the landscape of learning in both higher education and K-12 schools. Access to technology out-of-school is crucial to […]
FREE Parent Connect Workshop on 9/30! Tweet, Retweet, Hashtag, Inta What?
Greetings! Please join us Tuesday, September 30th, 6:00pm-8:00pm, Benjamin E. Mays High School Media Center, for our FREE quarterly parent workshop: “Tweet, Retweet, Hashtag, Insta What??? : Understanding the Benefits, Pitfalls, and Dangers of Social Media.” Our speaker, Ms. Amber McKeen, comes highly recommended because of her background and passion for helping parents and teens recognize the […]
J. Young Media’s Helping Our Youth Stand Out!
We had the opportunity to work with J Young Media, an award winning full service video production company. They utilize skilled videographers, producers, production assistants, editors, motion graphic artists, and other contractors. They use their abilities to collaborate with and promote local nonprofits using video (documentaries, PSA’s, video series, etc.) to create awareness and initiate […]
SUMMERTIME STEM @ SIEMENS
On Tuesday 7/15/2014 the teens were invited to participate in Siemens Science Day. George Buchanan, a Future Foundation Board Member, taught the teens all about windmills and how they operate. They learned that “Wind turbines”, the modern equivalent of the windmill, are usually grouped into large collections of units to produce electricity. These are called […]
Future Foundation Students & Duke TIP
Summer Brown and Chris Patterson, seventh graders at Woodland Middle School and active participants in our Reef House Learning Center, were selected to take a test for the Duke University Talent Identification Program (DukeTIP). Summer was the only seventh grader in the South Fulton Learning Community who was accepted into the Summer Program. Duke TIP […]