ATLANTA, Sept. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The SunTrust
Foundation and SunTrust Trusteed Foundations announced today they
awarded $3 million in grants to the
Atlanta Police Foundation (APF).
The SunTrust Trusteed Foundations include the Florence C. and
Harry L. English Memorial Fund, the
Walter H. and Marjory M. Rich
Memorial Fund and the Nell Warren Elkin and William Simpson Elkin
Foundation. This funding will support APF's youth crime diversion
program, the At-Promise Initiative, by opening an At-Promise Center
on Campbellton Road in Southwest
Atlanta.
The center will be named "The SunTrust At-Promise Center
Honoring Andrew Young." It is set to
open in 2021, located on land provided by the Walter and Andrew
Young Family YMCA. The center will be a state-of-the-art learning
and community facility with specialized services and programming,
including financial education for youth and their families.
"The grants to the Atlanta
Police Foundation are another example of SunTrust Bank's commitment
to Atlanta and efforts to improve
the well-being of people in our community," said Bill Rogers, chairman and CEO of SunTrust Bank.
"Honoring Andrew Young as part of
the At-Promise Center, which is focused on helping young people get
their lives back on track, seemed natural given his legacy of
service and devotion to improving opportunities for people in
Atlanta and around the world."
The SunTrust At-Promise Center Honoring Andrew Young will be the third At-Promise Center
to open. APF opened the first center on the Westside in 2017 and
will open the second center in 2020 on the Southside.
"The grants from the SunTrust Foundations will support and
expand programs to help youth build self-sufficiency and better
lives," said Dave Wilkinson,
president and CEO of the Atlanta
Police Foundation. "Support from community partners allows us to
further our overall mission to keep Atlanta safe and inviting to all its
residents, workers and visitors."
"We're proud to support the At-Promise Initiative, as it focuses
on ensuring troubled youth find meaningful pathways to productive
lives," said Jenna Kelly, president,
SunTrust Bank Georgia Division. "We believe this investment in
community building will pay dividends to our city and our
neighborhoods for generations to come."
The $3 million in grants from the
SunTrust Foundation and SunTrust Trusteed Foundations is the
largest gift ever made to the At-Promise Initiative.
The At-Promise Initiative has garnered significant national
attention, winning the FBI Director's Award for its success in
reducing recidivism, or repeat offenses, among youth offenders. In
its first two full years of operation, At-Promise enrollees have a
4% recidivism rate while the national rate is more than 15 times
higher.
About SunTrust Foundation
The SunTrust Foundation is committed to SunTrust Bank's (NYSE: STI)
purpose of Lighting the Way to Financial Well-Being by engaging
with local and national organizations to advance financial
confidence. Grants and activities focus primarily on financial
education, financial counseling, career readiness and small
business/entrepreneurship, in addition to local community grants.
The SunTrust Foundation supports American Red Cross disaster relief
efforts and contributes as a United Way Global Corporate Leader.
Established in 2008, the SunTrust Foundation has proudly provided
grants totaling more than $170
million throughout the United
States.
About the Atlanta Police
Foundation
The Atlanta
Police Foundation was established in 2003 to provide vital support
to the Mayor, the Chief of Police and the Atlanta Police Department. The organization is
based on a public-private partnership model that has worked to
secure and leverage private resources to fund high priority
projects designed to enhance the City of
Atlanta's ability to fight and prevent crime. As a result of
the work of the APF, since 2003 there has been an increase in the
number of police officers on the streets and an increase in the
engagement of Atlanta's business
community and neighborhood residents in fighting crime.
Additionally, the City has experienced a 58 percent reduction in
the violent crime rate and a 41 percent reduction in crimes
overall. Our programs are strategically focused to complement the
Atlanta Police Department's vision
of becoming the safest, large city in America. We give high
priority to programs that address the need for more police
visibility and improved police operations. We also provide
strategic counsel for the APD and aid in bringing private and
public sector resources together for short and long range security
planning for the City.
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