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Raising Expectations educates, engages and empowers our youth with a unique mentoring and tutoring
program designed to bring out the very best the have to offer academically, socially and culturally.

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    • Empower


Our greatest accomplishments are evident in the achievements of the young people served through our program, but we are also proud to share a sampling of the various awards and recognitions Raising Expectations has received over the years by several community sources.

1999-2000

Ms. Armstrong was featured in As I Am: African American Women in a Critical Age and was
an MTV Brick Community Service Award Finalists. Both Raising Expectations Co-Founders
were also awarded the Community Champion Award from the Villages of East Lake.



2001

Raising Expectations co-founders, Maria Armstrong and Tangee Allen, were honored with
Sisters Who Serve Awards from Spelman College.



2003

Ms. Armstrong and Ms. Allen received Unsung Hero Awards from Atlanta’s WB-36.



2004

Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health honored Raising Expectations with
a Martin Luther King, Jr. Service Award for the organizations commitment to improving
the lives of Atlanta’s youth.

Raising Expectations was honored by the Emma & Joe Adams Public Service Institute at
Morehouse College as an Outstanding Service Provider.



2005

Jamal Miller, a Morehouse volunteer, was honored with an 11Alive Community Service Award
for his 4-year commitment to the children and youth of Raising Expectations.



2007

Co-founder Maria Armstrong honored with an Outstanding Heroine Award by the Coalition
of 100 Black Women.



2009

Inaugural recipient of the Shirley Franklin Legacy Fund.



2009

Raising Expectations received proclamation from Atlanta City Council