Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Board Of Directors

I'm sure some of you are wondering about my unusual approach to exposing the truth, lies and deceit of the Greensboro Partnership but trust me there is method to my madness. Besides, I'm not telling everything I've learned-- yet.

Here on page 10 of the book we concentrate on the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro. The Community Foundation solicits donations from the public and is said to spend those donations on public art, women's issues and other things of social value. In 2010 the foundation, chaired by Louise Brady, claims to have collected over $10 Million in donations and paid out $10 Million in grants to worthy nonprofits including the Interactive Resource Center, the Future Fund, the Public Art Endowment and Women to Women. Their 2010-2011 Annual Report lists the boards of 3 donating companies but doesn't tell us who sits on their own board of directors.

The articles of incorporation for Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro are not available at the NC Secretary of State website probably because their 1983 date of incorporation predates the Internet. They apparently changed the name of the corporation in 1995 but that is also pre Internet. Their previous name was the Foundation of Greater Greensboro, Inc. but they currently do business (dba) as the Guilford Nonprofit Consortium. Why two names? I haven't a clue.

From the Guilford Nonprofit Consortium:

"In 2003, Weaver Foundation and the Community Foundation were instrumental in the exploring the interest in and need for the Consortium. Facilitated by a Leadership Greensboro project team, nonprofit stakeholders in our community defined the need for and dimensions of a capacity building consortium. The question they sought to answer was: "How might nonprofits come together as a community and build capacities among and between nonprofits as a way to creatively meet some of these growing challenges?" In 2004, more than 100 nonprofit organizations stepped forward to form the initial membership of the Consortium and local foundations came together to fund the Consortium so that annual dues could be kept to a minimum."

The Consortium membership list appears to be a who's who of who wants a handout. Apparently they do the same thing as the United Way except on a smaller and more local scale. Apparently they are the go to people for local non profit organizations in need of money.

I find it strange that the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro and most of the local non profits I've discussed to date all have problems making known who their board members are as it's apparently not a problem for the non profit, Guilford 200 Club.

Continue to page 11. Grassroots Productions Limited Board Of Directors.