Category: Timeline Stories

Greensboro City Council asks the Foundation to convene a task force

The Greensboro City Council asks the Foundation to convene a task force to study the feasibility and benefits of constructing a performing arts center in the downtown area. The Teen Grantmaking Council welcomes its 100th participant. The Foundation receives assets from the estate of Carolyn Weill LeBauer “for the creation of a public park.”

Interactive Resource Center opens

The Interactive Resource Center opens. Lisa Ling speaks at the first Women to Women Celebration luncheon, launching the public phase of the Women to Women Endowment. The Foundation activates the online fundholder portal. The Future Fund achieves its $1 million fundraising goal. The Public Art Endowment unveils Standing Vase with Five Flowers by James Surls along Green Valley Road.

Interactive Resource Center

Construction begins on the Interactive Resource Center, a day center for homeless people in the Greensboro area. The Foundation played an integral role in this: bringing partners together, facilitating the planning of the project, and accepting the Richard Strasser family’s generous gift of real estate for the Center. The Community Leadership Investment Fund is introduced and Building Stronger Neighborhoods celebrates its 10-year anniversary.

Foundation assets grow to over $100 million

Foundation assets grow to over $100 million. Guardian II, a sculpture by internationally renowned artist Billy Lee, is unveiled on the grounds of the Old Guilford County Courthouse, making it the first gift to the residents of Guilford County by the Public Art Endowment.

Celebrating its Silver Anniversary

Celebrating its Silver Anniversary, the Foundation launches a series of high-impact, permanent endowments for the betterment of the Greensboro area. The first two established – Women to Women and The Public Art Endowment – raise money to address issues of interest to women and their families and to acquire significant pieces of public art to facilitate community.

IMPACT Greensboro

IMPACT Greensboro is formed as the result of the findings of a social capital survey. Public and private institutions collaborate to support this unique program that demonstrates how ordinary citizens from different backgrounds can forge authentic and meaningful relationships, find shared values, and develop solutions to day-to-day community issues.

The Piedmont Unity Project

The Piedmont Unity Project is launched in partnership with Guilford Green Foundation.

Fondo del Patronato Mezquital

The Fondo del Patronato Mezquital is established to support the transnational philanthropy of Patronato Mezquital – a “hometown association” of more than 200 families residing in central North Carolina who hail from the Mexico town of Mezquital and together raise funds for charitable projects in their homeland. This is the first hometown association fund in North Carolina at a community foundation.

Foundation assets grow to $85 million

Foundation assets grow to $85 million. A $100,000 grant from W. K. Kellogg Foundation enables the Foundation to convene learning circles throughout diverse communities in Greensboro to study traditions of giving. The Toleo Foundation Community Scholarship Program is established by Tobee and Leonard Kaplan to provide financial assistance to seven high school seniors graduating from Guilford County public schools and who will attend a public institution in North Carolina.

The Foundation moves into new offices at Foundation Place

The Foundation moves into new offices at Foundation Place at 330 South Greene Street and is joined by the Cemala Foundation in the new space. An evaluation of the Foundation’s discretionary grantmaking program finds that the Foundation’s trust and reputation in the community are highly rated, and relationships with nonprofits are strong and supportive.