Atlanta community member and business builder Stephen R. Been serves as the vice president of land development at Legacy Communities, an award-winning homebuilder based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. A third-generation homebuilder, he focuses on constructing homes for first-time buyers. Outside of work, Stephen R. Been donates his time and resources to local initiatives, among them, the Mayor’s Youth Foundation and affiliated programs.

2. Atlanta community member and business
builder Stephen R. Been serves as the vice
president of land development at Legacy
Communities, an award-winning homebuilder
based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. A third-generation
homebuilder, he focuses on
constructing homes for first-time buyers.
Outside of work, Stephen R. Been donates his
time and resources to local initiatives, among
them, the Mayor’s Youth Foundation and
affiliated programs.

3. Atlanta’s city government has a long history of
supporting youth through outreach and training
programs. One example is the Mayor’s Youth
Program, which is run by the Atlanta Workforce
Development Agency and connects youth ages 14
to 21 to employment and workforce training
opportunities in the region. One component of the
Mayor’s Youth Program, the College Unit, provides
support, mentorship, and financial aid to youth in
college or those hoping to go to college. The
program benefits students in the Atlanta Public
School System and the children of City of Atlanta
employees.

4. In 2014, the City of Atlanta demonstrated its
commitment to youth in yet another way. Atlanta
Mayor Kasim Reed and his office honored the
Arby’s Foundation for its “School’s Out, Food’s In”
initiative to end childhood hunger nationwide. The
Arby’s Foundation also pledged 10 percent of its
May 16th profits from its Atlanta area restaurants to
the Mayor’s Centers of Hope summer meals
program. Atlanta’s 10 city-owned Centers of Hope
offer high-quality youth development programs and
serve snacks and hot meals to area children during
the school year and summer breaks.