Announcements

Check out news and events in February and March from our Westside partners and friends!   NEWS: Historic Westside News – February/March issue  NEWS: Nonprofit Offers To Pay Westside Homeowners’ Property Tax Hikes. Why Won’t More Sign Up? (WABE) NEWS: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vine City Family Home Added To National Park (WABE)  Additional Coverage: Foundation buys King’s […]

On Saturday, February 9, Westside Future Fund, Atlanta Habitat for Humanity and their collective corps of volunteers gathered to ceremoniously bestow keys to one of the Westside’s newest homeowners. Legacy resident Santecia Bynum and her 9-year-old daughter were ecstatic and grateful to officially become the owners of their new Ashview Heights home. The project required the collective efforts […]

ATLANTA (Feb. 13, 2019) – Westside Future Fund (WFF) is pleased to announce the election of seven new members to its Board of Directors: Rev. Kenneth Alexander, John Gamble, Jim Grien, Shawntel Hebert, Wonya Lucas, Derrick Jordan and A.J. Robinson. “I am grateful these talented Atlanta leaders have chosen to serve on the Westside Future […]

Westside-based nonprofit Quest Communities made headlines this week as updates were announced around its new Nonprofit Center for Change. The Center for Change is scheduled to break ground in coming weeks with completion expected by end of the year or in early 2020. The primary mission of the Center for Change is to link nonprofits in […]

Meet English Avenue resident Kelly Brown! Originally from Cincinnati, Kelly has been an Atlantan for the past 35 years, but has spent the last five, by choice, on the Historic Westside. Despite her relatively short tenure in the community, she has wasted no time becoming fully immersed and invested.  In fact, she’s become one of […]

Award-winning journalist Rose Scott, host of WABE-FM’s public affairs program “Closer Look,” took a trip to the Westside’s On the Rise Financial Center recently to see its work in action and to discuss the impact their financial service offerings can have on the Westside community. Scott visited with Regina Grant, program manager for On The […]

Each year, the NFL seeks to improve the surrounding communities of the Super Bowl host city, through the Super Bowl Legacy Grant Program, by giving an annual $1 million contribution from the NFL Foundation. This year, a $2.4 million grant – supported by funding from the NFL Foundation, Atlanta Super Bowl Host Committee and the […]

MLK Day 2019 was certainly one for the books! Temperatures might have been low, but the sun was shining and spirits were high as more than 600 volunteers – a record number! – joined Westside Future Fund (WFF) for a “day on” to commemorate the life and legacy of the Westside’s own Dr. Martin Luther […]

At its January 18 Transform Westside Summit, Westside Future Fund (WFF) had the honor of premiering the short films of some of the Westside’s most talented youth through the debut of AT&T’s Westside Storytelling Competition.  The creative film program is powered by AT&T in partnership with the Atlanta Police Foundation, the At-Promise Youth Center and re:imagine/ATL. […]