Arc of Greensboro helps connect people with developmental disabilities with their community
70 years ago, parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities wanted to find a way to change the public’s perception of their kids.
High Point Central Wins Hubert B. Humphrey Award
High Point Central High School was announced as this year’s winner of the Hubert B. Humphrey Jr. School Improvement Award during the annual State of Our Community event sponsored by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce.
August 2024 Newsletter
Thank you to O’Henry Magazine for your portrait of these six amazing women shaping important initiatives of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro (p. 84).
These “Leading Women” are (L to R): Mae Douglas, Black Investments in Greensboro – BIG Equity Fund; Charlene Gladney, Guilford Nonprofit Consortium; Lisa Duck, Women to Women of Greensboro; Brianca Williamson, The Future Fund of Greensboro; Rachael Wright, Guilford Apprenticeship Partners; and Sadie Blue, Building Stronger Neighborhoods.
StepUp Greensboro works to make positive change for people
Motivating, equipping, and empowering people to find a better life. That is the mission of a nonprofit called StepUp Greensboro. With the help of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, the agency is helping people make positive changes in their lives.
Scholarships for Guilford County Students
Celebrating the 2024 Scholarship Recipients
We are thrilled to announce and congratulate our 2024 scholarship recipients. These exceptional students have demonstrated remarkable academic achievement, leadership, and a commitment to their communities. From future educators to budding international relations experts, writers, scientists, and community leaders, each recipient embodies the values and aspirations our scholarships seek to support.
By addressing financial needs and rewarding excellence, these scholarships not only alleviate the financial burden of education but also inspire students to make a positive impact in their communities. This support helps build the next generation of leaders, ensuring a brighter future for students and the broader community.
Their hard work and dedication have earned them this well-deserved recognition, and we are excited to see the positive impact they will undoubtedly make in their future endeavors. Join us in celebrating their achievements and wishing them continued success on their educational journeys.
2024 William Bryant Edwards and Lucy Teague Evans Memorial Scholarship
Zaynab Abdusamad
- Eastern Guilford High School
- Awarded $1,000
- Planning to attend UNC Charlotte
- Pursuing a degree in Chemistry
2024 George Simpkins, Jr. Scholarship
Barbara Martinez Rodriguez
- Dudley High School
- Awarded $1,500
- Planning to attend Guilford College
- Pursuing Business Administration
Damontae Brown
- Page High School
- Awarded $1,500
- Planning to attend Guilford College
- Pursuing Sports Management
Jaquele Lane
- Grimsley High School
- Awarded $1,500
- Planning to attend NC A&T University
- Pursuing Kinesiology
Latrell Marquis Wilson
- Dudley High School
- Awarded $1,500
- Planning to attend Shaw University
- Pursuing Computer Science
2024 Herman and Earline Herbin Scholarship
Joshua Allen
- Northwest Guilford High School
- Awarded $1,750
- Planning to attend Appalachian State University
- Pursuing Criminal Justice
2024 York David Anthony Scholarship and Thomas and Bettie O’Brian Memorial Scholarship
Leon Aaron
- Northwest High School
- Awarded $2,500 (renewable)
- Planning to attend UNC Chapel Hill
- Pursuing Engineering
2024 John Carlton Myatt Creative Writing Scholarship
Olivia Johnson
- James B. Dudley High School
- Awarded $3,000
- Planning to attend NC A&T University
- Pursuing Communications and Law School
2024 Jason Christopher James Memorial Scholarship
Caroline Church
- Southwest Guilford High School
- Awarded $7,500
- Planning to attend UNC Chapel Hill
- Pursuing a career in politics or internal affairs
Greensboro agency helps female veterans transition to civilian life
They serve just like men in every branch of the U.S. military. They face the same battles and the same challenges. But when it’s time to come home, female veterans often find they face a different set of obstacles as a civilian, and they’re hurdles traditional veterans’ groups aren’t always equipped to deal with.
Cambodian Cultural Center helps preserve heritage in Greensboro
Americans around the country will pause to celebrate Independence Day.
They’ll attend community events, host backyard barbecues with friends, and watch brightly-colored fireworks explode in the evening sky. Our ancestors came from different cultures, different countries and different backgrounds. While we collectively celebrate being Americans, we still try to preserve our cultural heritage, and one group in the Piedmont is working to do that in several ways.
The coconut dance is a folk dance often performed during Cambodian wedding ceremonies. On this day, it’s in celebration of the Lunar New Year with children from the Cambodian Cultural Center located in Greensboro.
“It was founded in 2012 in order to help preserve [Cambodian] cultural heritage,” says Treasurer An Strickland. “We offer programs such as arts and also community efforts and leadership and mentorship programs with our youth.” Strickland says it’s important to teach young Cambodian Americans the traditional arts, language and history of Cambodia.
In return, they help older Cambodian immigrants and refugees. “The programs that we offer are the traditional arts as far as dance culture,” she says. “We also do Cambodian literacy programs as well and a lot of community efforts to help our elderly and non-English speaking residents.”
Nearly 300,000 Cambodians escaped conflict and genocide in their homeland in the 1970s and sought refuge in the United States.
Many settled in Greensboro in 1982, and in 1986, they purchased land for Wat Greensboro, a Buddhist Center on Liberty Road in Greensboro.
The Cambodian Cultural Center has offices nearby. It relies on volunteers, but the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro helps through community grant programs.
“The community foundation has helped enhance our program itself as far as our cultural dance programs as well as showcasing our culture itself. We’ve offered cooking classes. They’ve been able to assist us with that, and we’re going to be starting a traditional classical music class as well,” says Strickland.
In addition, CCC offers community assistance with vegetable giveaways and vaccine clinics. If you want to learn more or if you would like to volunteer your time, visit https://www.cccofnc.org/
Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine provides access to healthcare for uninsured
Health care isn’t cheap; sometimes even if you have medical insurance; but one agency in the Piedmont is making care available regardless of insurance coverage or financial status.
Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine provides medical services at six locations in Guilford County thanks in part to help from a community foundation.
Chief Financial Officer Danielle Cole says, “we are a federally qualified health center. We do preventative medicine, wellness checks, immunizations, acute care.”
That may sound like every medical office, but Cole says what makes her organization unique is it cares for all patients, even the uninsured and those who cannot afford to pay out of pocket. The money comes from the Tri-County Health Fund administered through the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.
“We consider ourselves to be a safety net provider,” says Cole. “So a lot of times if a person is uninsured or they don’t have insurance or the thought is ‘I have a limited amount of income and that needs to go towards gas or food.’ I’m not going to go and get care until it’s a really bad situation, and a lot of times I’m going to end up in the emergency room. Now I have more debt. I have a huge bill, and now I’ve bogged down that system with something that I could have gone to the doctor for and probably been treated and not had to create that effect.”
Legacy Spotlight: Betty Jo Forrest
“Returning to my hometown of Greensboro, after spending many years away, has been a pleasure. There is so much beauty here with our parks and plenty of trails where I enjoy spending a lot of my time. I established my fund with the Community Foundation in 2017. Since that time, I have worked with the very qualified and capable staff as I continue to grow and develop my philanthropic interests. On several occasions I have had the experience of having meetings arranged with the staff of nonprofits which caught my attention. I feel that I can trust the staff to do their due diligence in the screening of organizations and sometimes offer suggestions about nonprofits which had not previously drawn my attention.
This confidence in the staff at the Foundation gives me the opportunity to feel that my money will be going to places where it will be used wisely. The ease with which I can modify my estate planning without involving my estate attorney each time is certainly one of the major advantages of having my Wall-Forrest Fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.”
