Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
Our goal as a charitable organization is to create a lasting impact in the Greensboro Community. We do this by building strong relationships with philanthropists and nonprofit organizations to understand goals and meet the needs of the community. Visit our blog to read the latest news and see the positive impact on our community when we work together.
The Community Foundation assembles philanthropic resources and expertise around pressing community issues. Knowledgeable staff and diverse volunteers guide our grantmaking and initiatives. We convene the private, public, and nonprofit sector on shared priorities for shared solutions. We believe in everyone living in a safe, affordable home. We believe in everyone accessing low-cost, high-quality healthcare. We believe in everyone growing their businesses with the resources they need for success. We believe we should care for older adults. We believe in creating arts, parks, and sports for all to enjoy. We believe in advocating for changes to the systems, policies, and institutions that perpetuate inequities in our community.
In April 2024, LeBauer Park was named one of “The Best Urban Parks in America” by AOL.com.
“When she died in 2012, prominent Greensboro resident Carolyn Weill LeBauer left $10 million [to the Community Foundation] for the creation of a spectacular city park. The 4-acre park created in her name includes a 17,000-square-foot event lawn, a children’s park, a putting green, more than an acre of ornamental gardens, and a market area.”
The park results from a powerful public-private partnership between the Community Foundation and the City, working with local stakeholders and national experts in urban landscape design and park programming. On August 8, 2016, the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro gifted the new Carolyn & Maurice LeBauer Park to the City of Greensboro followed by a week of additional public celebrations, including the official lighting of the Janet Echelman sculpture, Where We Met.
The Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts is a $94 million, state-of-the-art, public performance facility located in downtown Greensboro. It is the most significant public-private partnership in Greensboro’s history with the Community Foundation facilitating unprecedented private philanthropy and the City of Greensboro committing public funds to realize a dream almost ten years in the making.
Since opening in the fall of 2021, the 3,000-seat theater has hosted sold-out Broadway productions, pop concerts, symphonic performances, family entertainment, and other special events for thousands of patrons providing an economic boost to Greensboro’s downtown development.
Our housing initiative is a shared effort between the City of Greensboro and the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro. Initiative funds are used to commission research on the state of housing in Greensboro as well as the effects of affordable housing.
In 2015, representatives of Guilford Education Alliance, Guilford County Schools, the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, and High Point Community Foundation came together to help bring Shift_Ed to our community.
Shift_Ed helps public school students in Guilford County get the support they need to graduate from high school and be ready for post-secondary success. This support starts with the youngest learners and continues until students graduate from college or post-secondary programs. In addition, the program provides last-dollar tuition scholarships to Guilford County Schools graduates so they can afford to complete college or a post-secondary certificate.
North Carolina has more than 62,000 registered nonprofit organizations. They do everything from helping feed people to helping the homeless find housing, but there’s one nonprofit whose purpose is to
For the Black Investments in Greensboro Equity Fund, investing in Greensboro’s Black community means more than providing financial support. It means helping create the conditions for long-term opportunity, economic mobility,
For more than four decades, the Gateway Education Center has been the place where children of all abilities can learn, grow, laugh, and achieve success despite having cognitive, developmental, medical,
According to the principal Noel Keener, “You come in the door and people are friendly. Especially the students and the staff.”
From the band playing in the hallway, to the
Hispanic Heritage Month is an opportunity to celebrate the histories, cultures, creativity, and contributions of Hispanic and Latino communities. At the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, we are proud to
Six-foot-tall metal “F-O-L-K,” letters delivered by an 18-wheeler and planted at the downtown Depot, will serve as a focal point for the upcoming NC Folk Festival in Greensboro.
The design,
Thank you to everyone who joined the Black Investments in Greensboro (BIG) Equity Fund for this year’s Black Philanthropy Month Celebration. The event brought community members together to recognize the
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Thousands of local public school students will head to the theater this fall as part of a new community initiative called Every Child Center Stage.
Heritage Salon, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to championing and amplifying Black museums, historic sites, historic homes, and Black history, announces the launch of the Heritage Salon Legacy Giving Circle (HSLGC),
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Goodwill is about more than re-purposing clothes at a bargain price. The nonprofit helps people develop computer and job skills, and it helps people who’ve been in prison through a
The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro welcomed donors, nonprofit partners, community leaders, and friends to the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts for its 2026 Annual Meeting, an annual
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