Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development, Education, Human Services, Neighborhood Centers, Special Education

Mission: To cultivate young citizens who are in-tuned with their community and the world around them, and understand that new experiences provide opportunities to learn and change their lives, and subsequently the world.

Results: The goal of our mission is to create students who make positive impacts on their community. We feel this occurs by participating in service activities that better the community. Students are required to complete a certain number of community service hours based on their grade level. Students also do a service activity each week within the program. These include, but are not limited to preparing and serving meals at Nicholas House Homeless Shelter, preparing and serving meals at Ronald McDonald House, visiting senior centers, working at The Atlanta Community Food Bank, and many others. During the 2013-2014 school year students at Pointe South Middle completed 1,584 volunteer hours, Mundy’s Mill Middle completed 1,746.5 volunteer hours, and Sequoyah Middle students finished 1,379.5 service hours for a total of 4,710 service hours completed by our middle school students in The Passport Program. In addition, our high school alumni return and volunteer as mentors for our middle school population.

Target demographics: holistically develop youth

Direct beneficiaries per year: over 450 youth between 11 and 20 years old.

Geographic areas served: Metro Atlanta

Programs: foreign language acquisition, community gardens, sexual health and wellness education, college preparedness, apprenticeships, and international/national service learning.