East Atlanta Kids Club

10/02/2026

Updates are few and far between because we have been doing the work and building this space alongside supporters.

East Atlanta Skateshop is really taking shape, thanks to neighbors who have shared their time, talent, tools, donations, and encouragement.

We’re building a neighborhood skateshop where kids and teens can belong, learn to skate, design and make merchandise, and get real experience running a business and seeing all of the joys and challenges of that work up close. All profits will support East Atlanta Kids Club’s no-cost youth programs.

We’re still waiting on final steps in the permitting process before we can officially open. That wait has been longer than we wanted, but the response from this community keeps us going. Meeting so many of you at Strut and hearing what you hope this place can become meant a lot. You also bought 101 shop shirts in a single day, and that’s pretty amazing.

Swipe through to see where we are today. If you’d like to help us get to opening day and put this space to work for young people, please donate through the link in our bio. Sharing this post helps, too, and we always appreciate the love.

Thank you for helping us build a place to build and belong.

📍481 Flat Shoals Avenue SE, East Atlanta Village

09/18/2026

As we head into the weekend, we want to highlight this great feature in The Porch Press. This write-up helps connect the dots on some big efforts underway here in East Atlanta, and it is a great example of how we can work together to build the spaces our kids and community deserves. Thanks for being partners in this work, East Atlanta Community Association!

Be on the lookout for more content about East Atlanta Skateshop over the coming weeks. It’s nearly ready to open!

08/15/2026

Henry Queen and the Atlanta Business Chronicle did a wonderful job capturing what we hope to build with our new East Atlanta Skateshop. It’s not simply a retail space, but another welcoming place for young people, families, and neighbors to connect in the community we have called home for more than 28 years. It’s also a platform for youth entrepreneurship and belonging and a critical expansion of our Teen Club programming and capacity.

We are especially grateful for the support this effort has already received from neighbors, local businesses, and local leadership from East Atlanta Community Association, East Atlanta Business Association, East Atlanta Parents Network, East Atlanta Strut, and so many others who have encouraged us as we work toward opening the doors at 481-A Flat Shoals Avenue SE.

There is still plenty of work ahead as we finish fitting out the space and navigate the remaining steps toward opening, but we are excited about what is taking shape.

Thanks again to the Atlanta Business Chronicle for telling the story and to our East Atlanta community for continuing to believe in what East Atlanta Kids Club can build here.

The full article is available at the link below, and we hope you’ll read and share with others who believe in creative platforms for youth opportunity and placemaking. We still need and welcome support in every form it might take. Thanks now as ever for standing alongside as we continue to build up our community!

East Atlanta Village is no longer known just for its edgy nightlife scene.

07/24/2026

Folks, we are is hosting our 22nd Annual Brownwood Bike Rally on Saturday, September 12th. As ever, it's free, participants and volunteers receive event t-shirts, and all proceeds from event sponsorship and donations related to the event support our year-round no-cost afterschool, summer camp, counseling, food security, and holiday support programming for hundreds of neighbors.

https://runsignup.com/brownwoodbikerally

We hope to see some neighbors out there! Specific CTAs are listed below for ease of access:

Want to register for a race?
https://runsignup.com/brownwoodbikerally/signup
Want to volunteer?
https://runsignup.com/brownwoodbikerally/volunteer
Want to donate/sponsor?
https://runsignup.com/brownwoodbikerally/donate

Brownwood Bike Rally returns for its 22nd year! We look forward to rallying with you with tons of races, festivities, and family-friendly activities at Brownwood Park in East Atlanta! Grab a friend (or several) and ride on down to Brownwood on Septe...

06/24/2026

What an incredible Juneteenth celebration! ❤️🖤💚
We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our amazing EAKC families for showing up in so many ways. Whether you attended, donated food, shared your talents, volunteered your time, or supported our Teen Club by purchasing their Juneteenth merchandise, your contributions helped make this event a tremendous success.

A special congratulations goes out to our Teen Club members, who did an outstanding job creating and nearly selling out their merchandise. It was gratifying watching our youth showcase their creativity, with confidence, and true entrepreneurial spirit.

We would also like to thank Ms. Ashley of ngozi
for providing such a fun and engaging puppet show for our littles. Their smiles, laughter, and excitement said it all!

Juneteenth is a time to celebrate freedom, culture, community, and the strength of those who came before us. We are grateful to have shared this meaningful day with our families and supporters.

Thank you for helping us create another memorable Juneteenth celebration. It truly could not have been done without you.

We are already looking forward to celebrating with you again next year! ❤️🖤💚

06/07/2026

Today is the last day for Kids Fringe 2026, so bring the kiddos out and enjoy some screen-free fun with FREE activities and performances with our friends at East Atlanta Kids Club ! We'll be out there from 10-1PM with a special performance at 11:00 by our buddy Scottie Rowell presenting Cardboard Silly Show. Come hang out! https://atlantafringe.org/kids-fringe/

05/05/2026

Thanks to all who attended our 2nd Annual Pour it Forward at , we were able to raise $13,393 toward our upcoming summer camp! We have 108 kids and teens joining us in just a few short weeks, and your support helps ensure that they have the summer they deserve ❤️ between this event and our ongoing campaign to support a youth-led skateshop and third space for community teens, we have raised just over $20,000 from our community over the last two weeks. We are grateful to all who stand alongside us, building promising futures for our kids and teens.

04/29/2026

For the final month of afterschool, EAKC had a hard but clear choice: disrupt services for families due to facility renovations at Brownwood, or absorb the cost and strain of standing up a temporary site so kids could finish the school year with consistency.

We chose continuity.

It’s imperfect. It’s expensive. It is stretching our already-lean team in a manner that certainly isn’t sustainable in the long term. But for families, a month of afterschool means transportation, meals, homework help, caring adults, and a safe place while parents work.

This is the quiet work of community-based youth development. It’s not flashy, and not always neatly fundable and packaged, but it’s deeply necessary.

If you believe kids and families deserve stability even when logistics get hard, please consider helping us cover the real cost of keeping that promise. As always, we welcome support in any amount, and ways to support our work are linked in our bio and listed prominently on our site.

04/25/2026

We’re building more than a skateshop.

We’re building a youth-powered third space connected to Teen Club, creative production, makerspace learning, and belonging.

Early support has already come from East Atlanta civic leaders, parent network leaders, school-connected families, public health and healthcare professionals, workforce development leaders, nonprofit peers, volunteers, and longtime EAV neighbors.

Now we’re working toward our next milestone: 50 community supporters.

If this vision makes sense to you as a parent, neighbor, skater, artist, small business owner, or someone who believes teens need places to build and belong, we’d love to have you counted among the first 50.

We are not asking everyone for a huge gift (though, those are absolutely welcome). We are trying to show that this vision has real community backing. A $25, $50, or $100 gift helps us build the case that East Atlanta is behind this.

The link to support is in our bio ❤️

04/22/2026

For years, East Atlanta Kids Club has worked to create spaces where young people in southeast Atlanta are safe, known, supported, and given real opportunities to grow.

That vision has always been bigger than simply offering a program. It has been about building places of belonging - places where kids and teens can learn, create, build relationships, and imagine a future for themselves in the community they call home.

Today, we’re excited to share a new step in that work.

We’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign to support a community-centered skateshop and creative teen space connected to our Teen Club programming.

This is not a departure from our mission. It is an extension of it.

As East Atlanta Kids Club has grown, so has our understanding of what young people need - especially older youth. They need more than supervision and structure. They need places that feel real to them. Places where culture, creativity, identity, skill-building, and community come together. Places where they can belong.

We believe this project can help create that kind of space - one rooted in skate culture, making, design, and connection, while also opening the door to mentorship, creative expression, and future opportunity.

Our afterschool and summer programs remain at the heart of our work, and this vision builds on that foundation. We are proud to keep growing in ways that reflect both our mission and the young people we serve.

If you’d like to support the campaign, share it, or help connect us to funders, industry partners, volunteers, or other champions, we’d be grateful.

https://donorbox.org/help-us-build-a-youth-powered-skateshop-in-southeast-atlanta

Thank you for believing in East Atlanta’s young people and in the importance of creating spaces where they can thrive - both for the last 28 years and for the many yet to come!

East Atlanta Kids Club is looking to build a youth-powered skateshop in southeast Atlanta - a small storefront where skate culture, teen creativity, and neighborhood belonging come together. This will not be a typical retail store. It will be...