Jeezy’s Street Dreamz Foundation is bringing its Sno Ball Gala back to Atlanta on November 10, with comedian and actor Bill Bellamy set to host the sixth annual fundraiser. The event is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at a private Atlanta location, and its proceeds are earmarked for youth education, business training and broader community programs.
The gala is built around a direct fundraising model: silent and live auctions are intended to generate support for the foundation’s programming in technology, entrepreneurship, health and financial literacy. Individual tickets are listed at $1,000, while table sponsorships are listed at $10,000.
That ticket structure makes Sno Ball a high-dollar benefit rather than an open public community day. Its practical role is to help finance programming that can run beyond a single gathering—particularly initiatives designed to give young people concrete business, financial and leadership skills.
What the Sno Ball Gala is raising money for
Street Dreamz was founded in 2001 and has continued operating alongside Jeezy’s recording career. The foundation identifies several connected focus areas: technology, entrepreneurship, health and financial education. Together, those areas point to a wider approach than one-time donations or event-based assistance.
Financial literacy is one of the clearest examples. The foundation’s youth work includes education around budgeting, saving, credit and investing. Those terms can be broad, but they represent distinct skills:
- Budgeting is the process of planning how available money will be used, including needs, savings and discretionary spending.
- Saving means setting aside money for future goals or unexpected expenses rather than spending all funds immediately.
- Credit concerns borrowing and repayment history, an area that can affect a person’s future ability to access financing.
- Investing involves putting money toward assets or opportunities with the expectation of potential future growth, while recognizing that outcomes are not guaranteed.
Teaching these topics as a group matters because they are related but not interchangeable. A young person can understand how to save without understanding how borrowing works, for example, while a business idea may require both a workable budget and awareness of capital. The foundation’s stated emphasis places personal finance alongside entrepreneurship, rather than treating either subject as a stand-alone lesson.
The gala’s auction component also gives supporters a separate route to contribute beyond admission or sponsorship. A silent auction typically accepts bids over a set period without a live auctioneer, while a live auction is conducted in real time as participants bid. Both formats are planned for the event, with the money raised intended to support the foundation’s identified youth and community efforts.
Entrepreneurship work extends beyond the gala
Jeezy has also served as official program ambassador for Young CEO’s, an entrepreneurship initiative with the Urban League of Greater Atlanta. The 12-week program is structured around workshops, mentorship, business projects and networking, leading participants toward a pitch contest in which they present business ideas for support and recognition.
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A pitch contest is not simply a public-speaking exercise. In this setting, it asks participants to explain an idea in a concise, persuasive form and communicate why it deserves backing. The wider program’s workshop and mentoring elements are important context: a pitch is more useful when it follows work on the idea itself, its practical needs and how it may operate.
Jeezy’s role included participating in an early pitch session and providing guidance to participants. The initiative’s stated aim is to help young people build the skills needed either to start businesses or to move into leadership roles. That framing leaves room for more than one outcome. Not every participant needs to launch a company for the experience to be relevant; project work, mentoring and networking can also support career preparation and leadership development.
“I want to be more than just a mentor that they see every so often, but someone they can depend on daily,” Jeezy said in a statement published by the foundation.
The remark describes a high bar for mentorship: consistency rather than occasional visibility. A gala can attract donors and attention in a single evening, but the programs connected to it are intended to create continuing opportunities for participants. That distinction is central to the foundation’s stated mission.
Recent community efforts show the range of the foundation’s work
Street Dreamz’s recent activities have paired longer-term training with immediate community support. The foundation joined Atlanta Life, SF and Goodr for a pop-up market that distributed free groceries to 200 families. It also worked with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to create experiences for children and their families.
Those initiatives are different in purpose from a 12-week entrepreneurship program, and that difference is meaningful. Grocery distribution responds to a near-term need. Experiences created with Make-A-Wish are designed around children and their families. By contrast, the Young CEO’s program focuses on workshops, mentoring, projects and a pitch contest over a defined period. The Sno Ball Gala is positioned as a funding vehicle capable of supporting work across those categories.
Last year, Jeezy announced a Community Day partnership with LISC in East Point, Georgia. The planned event combined food distribution, school supplies, health screenings and family resources, while also connecting the 20th anniversary of Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 to the foundation’s community work.
“It’s about making sure our neighborhoods have access to the same opportunities, the same capital, and the same future as anywhere else,” Jeezy said of that effort.
The reference to capital is particularly relevant to an organization that supports entrepreneurship and financial education. In a business context, capital generally means resources used to begin, operate or grow an enterprise. The foundation’s programming does not present a single solution to that challenge; instead, it combines instruction, mentorship, project experience and opportunities for ideas to be recognized through pitching.
Why the fundraiser’s format matters
Celebrity-hosted galas can be easy to view solely as social events, but the stated structure of this one is more specific. Bellamy’s hosting role provides a recognizable face for the evening, while auctions, individual tickets and table sponsorships establish the mechanisms meant to turn attendance into program funding.
For prospective attendees, the published information is straightforward: the event takes place November 10, begins at 7 p.m., is being held at a private Atlanta venue, and offers both individual admission and table sponsorship. Because the location is private, attendees should rely on the foundation’s event information for participation and sponsorship details rather than assuming public walk-up access.
For people following Atlanta’s entertainment and community calendar, the gathering also illustrates how a music figure’s charitable work can sit alongside cultural visibility without being limited to it. Elsewhere in pop culture, projects often build interest by extending an existing world or public identity; a forthcoming Stranger Things prequel is another example of a major entertainment name expanding into a new format. Sno Ball’s stakes are different: its listed goal is to turn an annual event into financial support for education, training and services.
Key details for Sno Ball 2026
- Event: Sixth annual Sno Ball Gala
- Date: November 10
- Time: 7 p.m.
- City: Atlanta
- Host: Bill Bellamy
- Beneficiary: Jeezy’s Street Dreamz Foundation
- Fundraising activities: Silent auction and live auction
- Listed individual ticket: $1,000
- Listed table sponsorship: $10,000
- Program areas: Technology, entrepreneurship, health and financial literacy
The central measure of the event is not its guest list but the support it is designed to generate for Street Dreamz’s youth programs. The foundation’s recent work spans free groceries for 200 families, support for children and families through Make-A-Wish experiences, and an entrepreneurship initiative that takes young participants from workshops and mentorship to a pitch contest. Sno Ball is intended to help sustain that mix of immediate assistance, learning and opportunity.
