Grant Legacy Group transforms the streets around its West End flagship into a full day of remembrance, celebration, and community investment—free and open to the public from morning to evening.

The day opens with the Morning of Honor, an interfaith memorial service in the Grant Legacy chapel led by local clergy, with Lila’s father delivering the invocation. Families across Atlanta are invited to submit the names of loved ones they’ve lost; each name is read aloud and included on a Wall of Remembrance, a custom installation featuring engraved brass plates that families take home at day’s end. A live gospel choir and string quartet alternate sets beneath the stained glass.

Outside, the Legacy Village fills the closed-off block: free estate-planning and will-drafting consultations from Grant Legacy attorneys, a financial-literacy and “protect your family” workshop tent, free health screenings in partnership with a local clinic, and a children’s area so families are not turned away for lack of childcare. Food trucks and a sweet-tea garden keep the crowd lingering.

Lila announces the centerpiece: the Grant Legacy Foundation, seeded with a six-figure commitment to help cover funeral and burial costs for Atlanta families who lose a loved one to violence or who cannot afford a dignified goodbye. She also unveils a scholarship for West End students pursuing law, business, or mortuary science—“because this neighborhood raised me, and I intend to raise it right back.”

The evening closes with the black-tie Legacy Gala, bringing together civic leaders, clergy, business figures, and press, with proceeds directed to the new Foundation. Lila’s keynote captures the mission in one line: “We don’t sell goodbyes. We protect legacies.”